Health & Science

School nurses now have to add shooter drills and concussion protocols to the day-to-day responsibilities that come with tending to the health needs of students.

The roles of nurses have changed and expanded a lot in recent decades. Nurses are highly specialized, they have branched out into new are ...

The University of the Sciences hired a pharmacy historian to comb through its 200-year-old archive.

There's probably a biological explanation for the intensity of the sibling bond.

One Rutgers researcher brought his work home in the hopes of preserving his family farm for years to come.

Commercial cranberry farming can be rough on the environment, but there's new research finding New Jersey's industry might not be so bad.

How to keep stressful dietary discussions off the holiday menu.

Greenhouse gas emissions have risen steadily for the past decade despite the current and future threat posed by climate change, according to a new United Nations report.

Growing up, my friends and I took for granted that we would always see each other the night before the holiday. Until we couldn’t.

Studies are accumulating showing the teen brain, consistently plied with alcohol, won’t reach maturity and damaged genetic material may be passed on.

Abundant drilling of the Marcellus and Utica Shale created a glut of natural gas and drove down prices. Now, new pipelines and export terminals are aiding overseas sales.

The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania is suing a Philadelphia pharmacy for outing a woman as transgender and HIV-positive to her neighbors.

Like adults, teens drink to escape and numb pain, but with little regard for how they might hurt their brains in the process.

New Jersey saw a decline of nearly five percentage points, outpacing downward trend in many states.

The Murphy administration has kept its pledge to create a new district-by-district clearinghouse for information on lead contamination in New Jersey schools’ drinking water.