Health

The civil unit at Norristown State Hospital was reserved for civilians, with no criminal record, in need of mental health services. It's expected to close by fall of 2019.

Department of Health Secretary Dr. Rachel Levine led a discussion around adding anxiety and Tourette syndrome to the list of conditions to be treated with medical cannabis.

The CDC recommends that adults get multiple vaccines for conditions ranging from tetanus to influenza to cervical cancer.

Penn researchers found sweetened-beverage sales at groceries, pharmacies and mass retailers fell in the year after the controversial soda tax took effect.

Hayman shared ambitions that suggest a renewed focus on customer service for a nationally renowned department that has struggled to gain trust locally.

After a scathing letter from companies, officials said they hope for a voluntary resolution to contamination.

The experience of a brother or sister of someone with a drug addiction is distinct from a parent’s. Siblings may feel guilty they didn’t see signs of a substance problem.

The basic issue is trust, one expert says: A trust that’s been broken by a brother or sister, and sometimes in deeply painful ways.

From 1989 to 1991, more than 55,000 people got measles. Federal funding and parents embracing vaccines halted the outbreak.

Susan G. Komen replaced its ‘Race for the Cure’ with a ‘More Than Pink’ walk, a gated event requiring paid registration to focus on breast cancer care, research.

Black mothers die at a rate that's 3.3 times greater than whites , and Native American or Alaskan native women die at a rate 2.5 times greater than whites.

When’s the last time you saw a get-well card for psoriasis or eczema? Skin’s our biggest organ — and does lots of hard work keeping ...

Reach Out and Read, with 81 sites in the Philadelphia area alone, helps families with young children that typically don’t own books and can’t afford them.

Reading, even talking, to a little one furiously directs neuron fibers to places in the brain where the magic of language, memory and attention develop.

Pennsylvania has had the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the U.S since 2000.