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Veterans overall have a 22 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population, but women who served are more than twice as likely to take their own life.

Eight babies have been born in Sweden after their mothers received uterine transplants, but this has yet to be done in the U.S.

Given the dangers of brain trauma from helmet-to-helmet contact, would you want your child to play high school football? A new Philadelphia Inquirer analysis offers insight.

The Division of Professional Regulations say new regulations are preventing over prescribing.

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

Dozens of New Jersey Transit train engineers have been sidelined because testing imposed after a deadly rail crash found they suffered from sleep apnea.

The psychiatrist and innovator in the field of family therapy died last week at the age of 96. 

A Harvard research study spanning 80 years that looked into the life and health trajectories of well over a thousand people offers some i ...

Once people sign up, it’s up to state-approved doctors to decide whether to grant a medical marijuana card.

Many enrollees received letters from their insurance company noting increased premiums for 2018 but they didn't include updated subsidy amounts.

As the hurricane threatened, Miami-Dade County opened more than 40 shelters for people who needed a safe place to go. Some low-income, vulnerable people needed more support.

With an enrollment period that’s been cut in half and calls from the GOP to end Obamacare, the call for enrollment in the ACA has been more pressing than ever.

Nursing students go through several rotations, and, at Jefferson College of Nursing in Philadelphia, that can include time at a maximum security prison.

He claims, though, that he won't actively end his life — he's always been opposed to euthanasia, and to "death with dignity" — he will not try to prolong it either.

The window to sign up for individual health insurance through the Affordable Care Act's online marketplace begins Wednesday, Nov. 1.