Health

Keeping Ahab the cat cooped up seemed to crush her spirit and hunting instincts, so owner Liz Tung consulted with experts to weigh the cost of feline freedom.

Seven years is not much of a window, but administration and Department of Health say they can eliminate HIV/AIDS by 2025

Bucks and Montgomery County residents with elevated levels of PFAS met with state officials, but came away with more questions about the possible health effects.

Some 200 Christiana Care cancer patients have used virtual reality during chemotherapy. Immersion in a rainforest or other natural scenes helps them relax and pass the time.

More than half of U.S. cats and dogs are obese — and a ‘food is love’ attitude from pet owners isn’t helping.

Guests: Payton Guion, Marcel Bonn-Miller, Max Tuttleman Perhaps you’ve noticed a mysterious substance called C. ...

More than 2,000 miners in Appalachia are dying from an advanced stage of black lung. NPR and Frontline have found the government had multiple warnings.

Many asthma triggers like mold and cockroaches stem from poor living conditions, so CHOP and the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp. are working together to upgrade homes.

Pennsylvania is considering holding more naloxone giveaways after finding even more demand than officials had planned for at a recent event.

Though it’s cleaner than in the 1970s, the plant is still one of the biggest sources of air pollution in all of Western Pennsylvania.

The Department of Health's policy directs the use of intravenous doses, not the nasal spray.

Multiple factors, from lifting tax penalty to less money for publicity, could be leading to fewer people enrolling for health coverage under Affordable Care Act.

Johnson & Johnson is forcefully denying a media report that it knew for decades about the existence of trace amounts of asbestos in its baby powder.

Opioid prescriptions have fallen by 28 percent in Pennsylvania from 2013 to 2018, but overdoses and deaths continue to rise.

A baby who was admitted to an Ebola treatment center just six days after birth has now recovered from the virus.