Health & Science

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.

When Lorraine Griggs' father was diagnosed with prostate cancer, he was treated with 35 rounds of radiation, though he had a long list of other serious issues.

Ublester Rodriguez could not have anticipated that his life would be profoundly changed by kitchen and bathroom countertops.

The research, he said, is meant to address “the concern that there is a relationship between hydraulic fracturing and childhood cancers.”

The aim: for state employees to understand and respond to trauma’s effects, to lessen its impact and build resilience in children and adults.

Thanksgiving usually means we’re going big — way over the top. Twice as much turkey as we could possibly eat; more side dishes than ...

Some scientists predict the Alpha Monocerotids meteor shower will be visible at 11:50 p.m. ET. However, one NASA expert is skeptical of the forecast.