Health

As public health officials grapple with how to slow the growing opioid epidemic, the over-prescription of narcotics after even minor surgery is coming under new scrutiny.

As a live-in, residential program, A Place to Call Home will support pregnant women and new mothers struggling with addiction to opioids.

Well Being Trust, a national foundation focused on the mental health of America, ranked Pennsylvania’s opioid overdose death rate as the sixth highest in the nation.

The routine bill became controversial this year, because the Senate inserted language that would have prohibited CHIP from covering transgender kids' transition surgeries.

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy's administration promises to be markedly different from that of Gov. Chris Christie, who will leave office in January after two terms.

U.S. regulators have approved the first new treatment in nearly two decades to prevent internal bleeding in certain patients with hemophilia.

The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, provides health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it.

City officials and advocates for children’s health gathered Friday at a conference aimed at helping Philadelphia advance measures to reduce lead exposure in homes.

The wife of former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary and Pa. Governor Tom Ridge says he's in the early stages of recovery.

Transitioning out of prison is a difficult process, and for women, it can be even harder, especially with a lack of services geared specifically toward them.

Guest: Aaron Carroll Is salt good or bad for you? What about saturated fat or eggs? Should I eat gluten? Do coffe ...

Living with ALS is an extraordinary psychological challenge, and at this clinic, mental health services are integrated into patients’ medical care.

Individual communion cups were supposed to be about protection from germs. But a look back shows Americans had other reasons to stop sharing a communion cup.

Happiness is more than the feeling you get after eating a delicious meal. But what is happiness? On this Voices in the Family special, Dr ...

Guests: Keith Wailoo, Lenny Bernstein Pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, doctors, drug stores and illeg ...