Health & Science

Thanksgiving leftovers are a distant memory, and December's extra travel, shopping and family commitments are already straining nerves, budgets and immune systems.

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

Decades before she became a liberal firebrand, Elizabeth Warren was a registered Republican. Why her time at Rutgers and Penn helped spark her political shift.

Thomas Jefferson University entered into a binding agreement Wednesday with Temple University under which Jefferson will acquire Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals).

The Federal Trade Commission and European regulators cleared Roche's proposed $4.3 billion purchase of Spark Therapeutics.

When English ivy vines threatened her family’s "private park," a homeowner enlisted some hungry, four-legged assistants.

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans.

The balsam wooly adelgid has devastated Appalachia’s native Fraser firs. On a North Carolina farm, their domesticated cousins grow with TLC.

Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child.

SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...

For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people want.

You know what they say — all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And science seems to confirm that statement, with findings that pl ...

Children would need a doctor’s note to attend class without getting shots. The proposal could go before full Senate vote Monday.

Twelve people overdosed in Berks County over the weekend. Three of them died.