Health

Med student Joel Bervell found an unlikely place to educate both health care providers and patients about racial biases that are affecting care.

Health care can be complex and hard to navigate, and patients can often feel helpless. These steps can help to ensure that you receive the best possible care.

Providers need to be willing to engage in discussions about race, ethnicity, and other social identities, and how they affect health disparities.

A growing number of hospitals are shifting care into patients' homes.

As studies continue in understanding the window of fertility in women, science sadly shows that the numbers are a "cruel irony"

Telehealth providers say the Biden administration should reconsider proposed regulations that would make obtaining prescription controlled drugs harder.

RSD begins when a person has perceived rejection or has actually failed at a task. The awareness of their shortcomings is then emotionally internalized at a high intensity.

A generational stigma around talking about mental health care is made worse in southern Delaware, where fewer providers are available.

Both entities have signed a definitive agreement cementing their previously announced merger.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Biogen's infused drug for patients with a rare genetic mutation that affects less than 500 people in the U.S.

Supervised injection or safe consumption sites are places people could go to use illegal drugs while being monitored by medical experts.

Delaware County officials, U.S. Senator Bob Casey, and Representative Mary Gay Scanlon said the goal is to reduce racial disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes.

"The chronic experience of weight stigma ... is similar to the research we see on chronic experiences of racism or other forms of bias," Sole-Smith of Burnt Toast Podcast.

The World Health Organization registry holds 11 million data points — key to addressing global health inequality.

A team of researchers says it has identified the root cause as trapped stem cells. This may lead to more long term grey hair delaying solutions in the near future.