Health

Results of a new study by University of Pennsylvania researchers contradict previous reports showing a connection between conduct problems and marijuana use.

People who experience discrimination firsthand struggle with hunger twice as often as others.

The federal government took a new step this week to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions of nursing home patients.

These results underscore the shortcomings in how ADHD is identified.

The Cape May County Board of Freeholders is the latest legislative body to support a program that would allow the New Jersey fishing indu ...

Most of us take our drinking water for granted — switch on the tap, and out it flows. But in much of the world, that’s not the case. ...

More than 70,000 people died of drug overdoses last year alone, according to the CDC. That number marks a nearly 10 percent increase from 2016.

After a bike ride down the Mississippi, Devi Lockwood set out to record water stories on every continent. Here are two: one from Afghanistan, the other from China.

Dogs who drink toilet water are a health risk to themselves and maybe to the entire family.

While not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured kids rose to 5 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent a year earlier — it is still striking.

Lankenau's Wellness Farm yields thousands of pounds of produce for distribution to patients at no charge.

Most of the women who seek abortions are married, poor and already have children.

Blood tests for more than 230 residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties have come back showing high levels of a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.