Health

The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.

Philadelphia is only the second major city in the country to require sodium warnings.

The bill has already passed in the state senate and will go up for a vote in the house of representatives during the fall legislative session.

The well water has tested positive for high levels of nitrates and iron. There’s discoloration and also a possible bacterial contamination in some of the shallow wells.

Camden's new mayor approves of needle exchange location for the short term, but wants the program to find a permanent home elsewhere.

Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition that's responsible for 270,000 deaths every year.

A senior center in Queens, New York offers dialectical behavior therapy —combining modern therapy and eastern philosophy to fight depression, anxiety.

In 2002, when a giant study ended, lots of women threw their estrogen pills in the trash. In her late 50s, Barbara Paulsen reexamines the latest evidence for herself.

U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an "epidemic."

The idea is to address the stigma of mental illness with music. The opera is based on a memoir from a law and psychiatry professor.

Therapists treating depression use the method involving intentional goal setting to increase cognitive, social and physical activity.

Local disparities in life expectancy can be found across the country.

Last month, 39 fatal overdoses were reported, eclipsing the previous record of 27 in April.

Carney signed three pieces of legislation Monday aimed at addressing overdose deaths.

The mechanism of vomiting, or emesis, is the same in kids and adults.