Health & Science

Emotions are fleeting — they can bubble up seemingly out of nowhere and change quickly. Studying them is challenging, but it’s also i ...

Scientists are interested in video games as a potential tool to teach players how to get a handle on their emotions.

The Food and Drug Administration’s outside panel of advisers will meet on June 14-15 to evaluate the Pfizer and Moderna shots for younger kids.

Pennsylvania’s first case of the monkeypox virus has been reported in Philadelphia based on preliminary testing.

The monkeypox outbreak may feel familiar to COVID-19, but infectious disease experts say we have the tools and knowledge to stop the spread.

In the last seven years, the number of medical respite homes has more than doubled, driven by multiple factors.

Parents are scrambling to find baby formula. Factories are working around the clock to make more. And military cargo planes are airlifting formula from overseas.

The FDA and other agencies are investigating a hepatitis A outbreak in the U.S. and Canada potentially linked to organic fresh strawberries.

During Stroke Awareness Month, specialists in the Philly region say, "don’t delay care."

A Cape Cod science center and one of the world’s largest shipping businesses are collaborating on a project to use robotic buoys to protect a vanishing whale.

The effort is designed to concentrate on those in areas suffering disproportionately from COVID or people at high risk of transmitting COVID.

Back in 1988, scientists in London almost seem to have had a crystal ball.

Sleep — we all need it, but most people aren’t getting enough of it. Ideally, we spend about a third of our lives asleep. When we’r ...

Many other companies use the peanut butter — the cause of a salmonella outbreak — and now they have recalls of their own.

Federal regulators have also sent clearer guidance to physicians to help them determine how to manage Paxlovid’s interactions with other drugs.