Health

Ultimately, Roe vs. Wade brought an end to Jane because women then had access to legal abortion providers.

The Philadelphia region boasts more than 20 universities and colleges, as well as five medical schools and schools of nursing and health care administration.

Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.

Elana Gordon, a reporter for WHYY’s The Pulse, joined NewsWorks Tonight to weigh in on the local response to federal action.

Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

In the wake of the emergency declaration, harm reduction leaders are calling on Gov. Wolf to make needle exchanges legal in Pennsylvania.

The University Medical Center of Princeton will become the sixth hospital in the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

By 2030 about 60 percent of people will live in urban centers. We flock to cities for their energy and op ...

New Jersey’s largest insurance provider, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, has signed a $1.5 million contract with the New York tech startup, Quartet.

Stephen Lankenau, a professor of Community Health and Prevention at Drexel University, spoke with WHYY's Jennifer Lynn about Gov. Wolf's disaster emergency declaration for Pa.

Inside the Gift of Life Donor Program’s headquarters in Philadelphia, a room serves as a sort of mission control for organ donation.