Health

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.

New Jersey will make it easier for women to access doulas, who offer can offer guidance and support during deliveries.

The medieval plague known as the Black Death is making headlines this month.

We discuss whether or not the rules around personal space and touching have changed and discuss the social and emotional benefits of human touch,

Somewhere in the United States, a space like the one being proposed in Philadelphia is already in operation.