Health

The cost of long-term care for our aging population is rising but experts worry we are not prepared to meet their needs.

When online creators get hateful comments — who can help?

The petition demands that EPA designate the chemicals under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, to ensure strict storage, transfer and disposal.

The partnership between Sandy Hook Promise and the state Attorney General's office aims to prevent mass shootings and help children dealing with problems.

Democratic leaders in the New Jersey Senate failed to rally enough support for a bill that would eliminate the religious exemption for childhood vaccines.

WHYY's Nina Feldman gives us an update on the legal battles over supervised injection sites in Philadelphia.

If you've ever considered training for a marathon, but you're a bit intimidated by the idea of 26.2 miles, here's some motivation.

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.

Half of Pennsylvania hospitals are all-in for a financial incentive program to connect emergency room patients with continuing opioid treatment.

Their child, Benjamin, was the first baby born as part of Penn Medicine’s 2-year-old uterine transplant trial.

Hahnemann Hospital's closure means it may not be able to pay for malpractice insurance for its doctors, who treated some of the city's poorest and sickest patients.

Two friends dropping acid on an annual camping trip, what could possibly go wrong?

Permits will be revoked at businesses that sold to minors at least 3 times in the past 2 years. Philadelphia has the highest smoking rate of any U.S. city.

An October ruling that what would become the 1st U.S. supervised injection site did not violate the “crackhouse statute” was too narrow to close the case.

The hospital routinely failed to sanitize the equipment it used to prepare donor breast milk, according to a state health department report released Monday.