Health

U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone is introducing legislation to combat a condition he said is the leading cause of death at schools.

Research points to a weapon in the fight against depression that may sound counterintuitive: Sleep deprivation. In their weekly c ...

Mental health advocates again are criticizing a New Jersey Halloween attraction they say stigmatizes people with mental illness.

For many of the more than 120,000 Puerto Rican Philadelphians, it's been a difficult week as they've been unable to get in touch with their relatives after Hurricane Maria.

A Delaware girl who had recently come in close contact with pigs at the Anne Arundel County Fair has been diagnosed with swine flu.

Each year, 30 infants die sleep-related deaths in Philadelphia, that’s part of why the city’s infant mortality rate is worse ...

A combination of older and newer treatments had the best results for patients in a recent study on anxiety. Researchers at a German ...

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000.

Guests: Jeff Stein, Walter Tsou, Micah Weinberg When Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer healthcare bil ...

A Bucks County school district is launching an effort to combat the opioid epidemic by putting drug counselors in schools. The Pen ...

There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence ...

“More colleges and universities are creating sober living programs for student addicts in recovery, and ma ...

At a resource fair for homeless citizens in Camden Wednesday, fair-goers were treated to a hot breakfast, a hot shower if they needed it ...

In New Jersey, hundreds of health providers turned out to a conference on suicide prevention Tuesday — a gathering organizers say would ...

With a staggering 64,000 Americans killed by drug overdoses last year according to the Centers for Disease Control, needle-exchange progr ...