Health

With 1,200 overdose-related deaths in 2017, Philadelphia is suffering some of the worst effects of the nation’s opioid crisis.

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand.

This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

Matt Roda of Lancaster County was a junior in high school when a single hockey game changed his entire life.

Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.

In the U.S., we’re engaging in a method of eugenics by reducing populations of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

Delaware's flu season is not over as evidenced by three new flu-related deaths reported by the Delaware Division of Public Health.

Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.

Dozens of members of Congress have called for a thorough investigation.

The medicine is now available at retail pharmacies in most states without a prescription.

A new nutrition course for students at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine meets in the kitchen.

New Jersey governor says he won't spend any funds on public service ads featuring himself. Former Gov. Chris Christie appeared in such commercials.