Health

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.

Maybe the short answer is: We need a better imagination?

A three-year study will investigate to what extent autism researchers include stakeholder groups in the design phase, and whether that affects what research is done.

Medicine, healthcare — even illness — vary from country to country. Those differences are driven by tradition, culture, even politics ...

Alan Yu heads home to Hong Kong to investigate the ways acupuncture is used in the medical system there.

Visitors line the hallways — even sleep on the floor — anxious for loved ones to recover. Noora Health trains overflow family to care for patients once they return home.

Disgraced former Philly sportscaster Don Tollefson is trying to pay it forward.

Guests: Beth Macy, Aubrey Whelan A “bad batch” of drugs, most likely a mix of heroine, fentanyl and K2, kille ...

Public health officials say dozens of people have been have been exposed to active tuberculosis at an elementary school in southern Delaw ...

Philadelphia wants residents to carry Narcan to prevent overdose deaths. But in the face of a possible emergency, a reporter found the reality is harder than it seems.

At its most essential: Call 911, and push hard and fast in the center of the chest.

The findings show 39.6 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children fit the body mass index definition of obesity.

Nearly 30,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Penn’s Landing for Philadelphia's 17th annual Recovery Walk.

Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.

Cancer researchers, doctors, and patients gathered at WHYY’s Philadelphia studios on Friday to focus attention on the latest efforts to ...