Health

The Unicode Consortium, the organization that decides which symbols get to be emojis, released its 2019 additions this week. A "drop of blood" emoji has been added to the mix.

About 1.1 million Americans are at high risk for HIV and could benefit from PrEP, according to the CDC. Around half of those are black men and women.

A team of scientists from MIT have developed a system to deliver insulin that actually still uses a needle — but is so small you can swallow it and the injection doesn't hurt.

A Philadelphia police-assisted diversion program has expanded to the epicenter of the opioid crisis. The goal is to provide services to some drug users — not to make arrests.

The U.S. Attorney's office has filed a lawsuit to prevent Philadelphia from becoming home to America's first supervised injection sites.

Since the name of the evolutionary game is survival & reproduction, why live longer than you can reproduce? In the '60s, researchers came up with the "grandmother hypothesis."

What matters to a child’s health? Sure, some things are embedded in our genetics. But from the moment we’re born, there are a million ...

The New Jersey Assembly passed a measure late last week removing the religious exemption as a reason parents can refrain from having their children vaccinated.

Like many cities, when schools closed for the day, usually schoolyards did too. But when the school district upgraded its playgrounds, it kept them open longer.

If you pick up what is often called the "bible of psychiatry," you'll find that the list of core symptoms for major depression doesn't include anger.

The 63-year-old refinery near Delaware City, Delaware has had fatal accidents blamed on negligence and pollution fines. Sunday’s fire in the crude oil unit was the latest.

Philadelphia has cleared the Emerald Street encampment, but many in the grip of addiction remain on the street.

Today there is a vaccine for this extremely contagious disease. But certain groups of parents opt not to vaccinate their children and that has led to outbreaks abroad.

Segregation in housing and education has had reverberations on health care and health outcomes for African-Americans. In this episode, we ...

The 7 Day Pledge links hospitalized Medicaid patients with primary-care doctors, reducing the number of patients who end up back in the hospital unnecessarily.