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Doctors shouldn't routinely perform electrocardiograms on patients at low risk for heart disease, an influential federal panel is recommending.

Separating young children from parents can lead to "disruptive attachment" and increase their risk of developing PTSD, anxiety, depression, and behavioral problems.

While most young men are meeting recommended exercise guidelines, young women aren't.

Suicide rates have increased in nearly every state over the last two decades, and half of the states have seen suicide rates go up more than 30 percent.

The high price tag has led many insurers — public and private — to cover the drugs only for the sickest patients and those who aren’t using drugs or alcohol.

In the Philadelphia region, Headstrong is referring vets to therapists at the Council for Relationships in West Philadelphia.

Under the new program, when a patient is admitted, a tailored care plan will pop up next to his name in the system — describing previous treatment and any preferences.

It's not the first time that baking soda has been investigated as a potential aid to cancer therapy, but it’s the first study to reveal how and why it’s able to help.

The study is the largest ever done of breast cancer treatment, and the results are expected to spare up to 70,000 patients a year in the United States and many more elsewhere.

Yardley woman waits to see if new law allows her husband to get experimental medication for ALS.

The government is reviewing the status of an herbal supplement touted to ease opioid addiction.

Still reeling after lasts year’s storm season, women in the town of Mariana, Puerto Rico, spend time together and prepare meals for others to ease depression.

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

More than 100 displaced people accepted help in the form or treatment or shelter while demonstrators protested the eviction.

One out of three people enrolled in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit plan received an opioid in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.