Health

Gov. Chris Christie wants to transfer responsibility for New Jersey’s four state psychiatric hospitals, community-based mental health a ...

Philadelphia is starting a new push to improve the health of impoverished children.  For now — it will rely on reshuffling existing re ...

I told myself that as long as I maintained that appearance, the rotten blackness steadily devouring me from within was under control and would eventually recede.

When schools and offices take vacation — people do too — blood donations slow down, leaving hospitals and blood banks to hustle for b ...

Millions of Americans suffer with depression – and traditional medications used to treat the illness are expensive, and can have a ...

Work to clean up the notorious heroin encampment at the Conrail tracks in Kensington has encountered a delay. Conrail workers were ...

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.

Sleep is the new skinny. Americans are obsessed with a good night’s rest — after decades of viewing sleep as a waste of time for ...

The Philadelphia Department of Public Health, along with Lutheran Disaster Response, local climate scientists and community groups are or ...

E-cigarette users report feeling less dependent and addicted than traditional smokers do, according to a recent study. Even so, researche ...

There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe ...

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

Human sleep behavior is different than that of many kinds of primates. That made researchers wonder, why did our branch of the family tre ...

We’re paying millions for plush mattresses and gee whiz gadgets — but a little “sleep hygiene̶ ...

How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...