Health

In this first of Dr. Dan’s Voices in the Family specials, he brings two young psychiatric residents together with their academic adviso ...

About 10 percent of those who die by suicide had been seen in an emergency room six weeks prior to their death, according to a new study. ...

In light of recent terrorist violence and mass shootings, it sometimes seems scary to go to public places, or big gatherings. In their we ...

After Scott Weiland, lead singer of the Stone Temple Pilots passed away in early December, his ex-wife, Mary Forsberg Weiland, wrote an < ...

Last week, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital canceled a kidney transplant surgery under unusual circumstances. The donor ...

What’s a good outcome for a person living with a mental illness? Ten years ago, Philadelphia’s Department of Behaviora ...

Business is booming for the Universal Health Services, one of the largest providers of psychiatric care in the region and nationwide, acc ...

Transgender people are more likely to battle substance abuse and homelessness. Helping some in this region along the road to recovery is ...

It’s Thanksgiving week — and in between the football and turkey there’s the thanks. As many people have heard, this is the ...

There was a time if you said meditation it conjured up hippies, communes and a certain amount of stereo-typing. But thanks to our guest t ...

The start of flu season means lots of ads and public health reminders about the importance of getting a flu shot. Manufacturers are makin ...

Anonymity has long been the staple of 12-step programs. But, lately there has been a trend toward self-disclosure especially by those in ...

Last month, Nobel Prize winner Angus Deacon brought attention to poverty. And, during his visit Pope Francis spoke out about rampant cap ...

Baby Boomers remember the Spencer Tracy Kathryn Hepburn movie Desk Set – their characters clash over a giant computer and its place in ...

We see disaster stories on the news all the time. Whether it is a fire in California, or a tsunami halfway across the world, it can make ...