Health & Science

Insurance companies pay in lump sums instead of per patient, so rural hospitals can afford to keep patients from getting sick in the first place.

The state says the regulations will cut down on health-care costs, but many physicians are concerned they could harm patient care.

An annual plant census along New Jersey's beaches reveals a significant surge of a federally threatened and endangered plant species, state officials announced.

There's more to being a good doctor than providing medical care to your patients. Sometimes that lesson comes at the darkest time of year.

The Fraser fir is found in a lot of homes around Christmas. But its wild cousins have been in decline for almost a century because of a small invasive pest.

Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia accounted for one-third of the country's shale gas production in 2019.

For many Americans, hallucinogens still evoke the psychedelic '60s, bringing to mind the sex-and-drugs lifestyle of the hippie counterculture.

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.