Health

Vancouver is home to North America’s first, public supervised injection facility — and an explosion of spin-offs designed to prevent overdose deaths.

Even if guidelines do change for women over 30, the Pap smear is still important for women ages 21-29.

Environmental toxicologist Trevor Penning says there’s no need to change your barbecue garb just yet.

The above-normal temperatures are resulting in cases of dehydration that can develop into heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Dangerous heat levels continue in Philadelphia and the surrounding areas. People are dealing with it in many ways this week as they work or play.

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Since brand-name Truvada was approved for HIV prevention six years ago, its average wholesale price has increased by about 45 percent.

Sharing personal narratives can help the storytellers see some of the good in their lives amid the trauma.

After Pfizer cut back on production, Philly's Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is getting 30 percent less injectable morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid than it did a year ago.

Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.

The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease

As Mona Hanna-Attisha began reviewing her patients' medical records, she noticed the percentage of children with elevated lead levels had increased after the water switch.

There's a shortage of primary care providers. University of Pennsylvania is testing a model, using Medicare funds, to train more nurse practitioners.