Health & Science

The findings show 39.6 percent of adults and 18.5 percent of children fit the body mass index definition of obesity.

Nearly 30,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Penn’s Landing for Philadelphia's 17th annual Recovery Walk.

Drug overdose deaths "have been on an exponential growth curve" that began years before the rise in opioid prescriptions seen in the mid-1990s.

Cancer researchers, doctors, and patients gathered at WHYY’s Philadelphia studios on Friday to focus attention on the latest efforts to ...

Guests: Chyke Doubeni, Michael Hobbes Obesity continues to be a major public health issue in America. As this pro ...

Wife of former vice president says part of the plan is to come up with a roadmap to help cancer patients manage their care.

Philadelphia was particularly hard hit by the flu epidemic of 1918.

Technology helps us run our lives, do our jobs, get directions and keep track of our calendars. Right? Or, is technology taking control o ...

A previous vote fell short. This time around, Ellendale residents OK'd a referendum 81-21.

Proposal follows smoking prohibition at state beaches and parks taking effect in 2019.

A group of researchers, including the Principle Investigator for the New Horizons program, Alan Stern, have found that after a review of ...

"The risk to life is rising with the angry waters," North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper declared as the storm's death toll climbed to 15.

The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.

Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...

Philadelphia is only the second major city in the country to require sodium warnings.