Health

Anxiety about side effects can keep people from starting or sticking to drug regimens or medical procedures.

A survey finds that many people have skipped or rationed their prescription medications or have substituted cheaper over-the-counter drugs.

Some quibble with the "a period should end a sentence – not a girl's education" trope:

Delaware health officials will hand out doses of the opioid overdose-reversing medication naloxone at the annual atTAcK Addiction 5K fundraiser in New Castle.

Being in nature is restorative; the wild can feed your soul. But, for hundreds of years, we pushed west across the country, tra ...

At least eight states, including some that have experienced measles outbreaks this year, want to remove personal exemptions for the measles vaccine.

Since China has stopped accepting America's plastic recyclables, one solution to dealing with the excess material has been to burn it in already-existing trash incinerators.

Rising temperatures and longer mosquito season create a ‘perfect storm’ for virus transmission.

A handful of physicians are using the show to teach medical students how to diagnose disease.

The Department of Education was invited to be part of the roundtable event but declined.

It can be hard for some ER patients to fill prescriptions, so a new Temple program sends them home with medicine, to keep them from coming back.

Cancer patients are 2.65 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death.

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

The Trump administration’s new rules would place further restrictions on how organizations in receipt of Title X money could operate.

Spark Therapeutics says being acquired by Roche will help it expand its gene therapy treatments while staying in Philadelphia.