Health

More than half of teachers say they’ve had some sort of voice disorder during their career. A West Chester professor is working to help them.

A Jefferson initiative aims to make patient care more accommodating. It offers noise-canceling headphones, chairs that rock, and ‘fidgets’ to occupy hands.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer revolutionized talk around sex in America. At 90, she's letting her own walls come down in a new documentary.

Taking time each day to note positive moments and personal strengths; mindful breathing and reaching out in kindness are all part of a program that reduces anxiety.

The plan would eliminate the state's $4 billion behavioral health program, merging it with the state's $12 billion physical health Medicaid program.

Drugstores in cities like Camden were less likely to have it in stock than those in smaller, wealthier towns. Insurance coverage may be another barrier.

Historian and Harvard professor Anne Harrington believes that pharmaceutical companies have played an oversized role in determining how mental illness is treated in the U.S.

Some Pennsylvania counties are facing challenges to getting drop-in centers up and running and keeping them funded.

Most of the powerful synthetic opioid comes here from China. Officials hope strict new rules will curtail the flow that’s driving overdose deaths.

On-site gardening programs allow recovering people to gain confidence and skill — and they also help solve food insecurity.

We look at the measles outbreaks, the underlying reasons parents don't vaccinate their children and efforts by public health officials to change their minds.

Judge halts Trump administration’s efforts to change how Title X funds can be used; ‘Protect X’ campaign to continue, including in N.J.

According to the CDC, people who were vaccinated prior to 1968 with an early version of the vaccine, which was made from an inactivated (killed) virus, should be revaccinated

The controversial Netflix series graphically depicts a suicide. Researchers wondered how much harm does the second season might do.

"If you have to get sick, sure can't beat the measles," sister Marcia says, as the older Bradys sit around a Monopoly board on one of the kid's beds.