Health

A Harvard researcher is sending up red flags about a popular class of supplements, some of which contain amphetamine-like drugs.

The woman refused to get off the flight and police stepped in.

Breast cancer is less common in black women, yet they're about 40 percent more likely to die from it than are white women.

Water sources at New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst contained levels of toxic PFAS chemicals that were up to 24,000 times hi ...

"...the petitioners provided evidence that these substances caused cancer in animals who were exposed to much higher doses," the FDA statement says.

Poor health care and criminalization of sex workers feed into each other to create a cycle, says an organizer with Project SAFE Philadelphia.

Doctors are often rated on Yelp or other online platforms.

The trauma of sexual assault or harassment is not only hard to forget; it may also leave lasting effects on a woman's health.

The effort launches as just 38 percent of Delawareans who are diagnosed with substance abuse make it into treatment.

People walking in Philadelphia’s Head House Square encountered an unusual interruption on Tuesday – a bright blue vending machine ...

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.