Health

Federal agencies have awarded about $3.5 million in total to Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey to expand mental health and suicide crisis response.

Caring for sick children has become extra stressful recently for many U.S. parents due to shortages of Children’s Tylenol and other medicines.

Legionnaires' disease is a bacterial disease that can be contracted through breathing in small droplets of water that contain legionnaires bacteria.

Whether we’re in a forest, a park, or in the middle of a city, wildlife is always close by. Birds flying overhead, deer peeking through ...

Health disparities across different races and ethnicities in Delaware remain a persistent concern, particularly for chronic illnesses.

Chagas disease can lead to heart failure and damage to the esophagus and gastrointestinal tract. Roughly 20-30% of those who contract Chagas may be at risk of dying from it.

Members of Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Advisory Board are publicly questioning the Wolf administration’s oversight of doctors and third-party certification companies.

Last year, 515 Delawareans died of overdoses. “It's really disheartening when you see people doing lots of work,” one victim’s father says.

Unions and labor organizations representing thousands of New Jersey public sector workers are requesting financial aid to help deal with rising premium costs.

Nursing homes leaders are redoubling efforts to get staff and residents boosted with the new version of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The death of a loved one can be shattering — especially when it’s unexpected. It destroys our feeling of safety, warps our sense of r ...

Francine Wheeler’s son, Ben, was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012. For Francine, it was the moment that changed

Researchers find that pandemic grief is on par with violent-death grief — and what makes both so traumatic

State health officials say there’s clear research that school-based health centers can bridge health equity gaps. But there’s still few in Pennsylvania.

Governor-elect Josh Shapiro highlighted gun violence and its effect on young people during the 5th annual Bloomberg American Health Summit in Philadelphia Tuesday.