Health

For years, we’ve heard that meditation is good for our bodies and minds – but scientific studies on the practice have been la ...

Cory Cohen’s slide into addiction is one that echoes all over the country. Cohen is 22 years old, grew up in the suburbs of ...

My name is Diego Luke, and I am a 17-year-old high school junior in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grow ...

Just 10 psychiatrists are available for every 100,000 people in Pennsylvania, and they tend to cluster in urban areas. Some don’t a ...

Blood pressure. It's one of the most important measurements in medicine. And yet, taking it correctly is kind of an art.

Solving the mysteries of infectious diseases requires man power, determination, and, in the case of Legionnaires' disease, pride.

Scientists have discovered that implicit racial bias may diminish when people are reminded of shared group identities. The researc ...

Some of the most severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder tend to be accompanied by psychosis. People have visio ...

After a failed appeal, Independence Blue Cross must cover in-school autism support services for a Philadelphia student. In Novembe ...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a new law that creates a special missing person alert for people with mental, intellectual or devel ...

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 ...