Health

Pa.'s state prisons are on lockdown after staff members required treatment in recent weeks from exposure to a yet-unidentified substance described as a liquid synthetic drug.

Legislation aims to improve detection, spur cooperation between federal and state governments.

Guests: Steve Twedt, Marcel Bonn-Miller, Shalawn James Medical marijuana was legalized in Pennsylvania more than ...

Philadelphia's Department of Public Health has launched a new campaign to promote breastfeeding, especially among women of color.

"It is time that President Trump and Secretary Azar declare STDs in America a public health crisis."

Independent researchers from George Washington University have estimated that Hurricane Maria caused 2,975 deaths in Puerto Rico in the six months following the storm.

It’s been 77 years since Delaware had a confirmed human death from rabies; the second in the United States this year.

Guests: Delane Casiano, Karriem Salaam, Howard Stevenson African Americans are more likely to report mental healt ...

She says the 2004 movie 'Super Size Me' sent the wrong message, and she wants to destigmatize fast food.

In the face of ringworm, scabies — even lice — keeping kids in class is a priority.

School vaccination laws took a long time to take root. Today, every state has one. Here’s how that happened.

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

Medical waste has once again washed ashore on some New Jersey beaches. 

The Natural Cycles app instructs women to take their temperature at the same time every morning when they awake and record it in the app.