Health & Science

If you've ever considered training for a marathon, but you're a bit intimidated by the idea of 26.2 miles, here's some motivation.

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist.

We look at the bushfires raging in Australia and discuss the role climate change is playing on wildfire severity and frequency around the globe.

After a long history of erasure, communities of color are reclaiming psychedelic traditions to heal from trauma.

After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are taking a fresh look at the potential of psychedelics in therapy. Could substances like ketam ...

Half of Pennsylvania hospitals are all-in for a financial incentive program to connect emergency room patients with continuing opioid treatment.

Their child, Benjamin, was the first baby born as part of Penn Medicine’s 2-year-old uterine transplant trial.

Hahnemann Hospital's closure means it may not be able to pay for malpractice insurance for its doctors, who treated some of the city's poorest and sickest patients.

Two friends dropping acid on an annual camping trip, what could possibly go wrong?

Permits will be revoked at businesses that sold to minors at least 3 times in the past 2 years. Philadelphia has the highest smoking rate of any U.S. city.

An October ruling that what would become the 1st U.S. supervised injection site did not violate the “crackhouse statute” was too narrow to close the case.

The hospital routinely failed to sanitize the equipment it used to prepare donor breast milk, according to a state health department report released Monday.

If ever there was a time to up your fitness game, the arrival of the new year and the new decade is it.

The governor's office says the plan is "aimed at expanding resources" as well as fighting stigma, but said it's too early to talk funding or structure.

Enduring opioid epidemic, rising cost of prescription drugs and of health care overall are set to remain big issues for patients, providers and state officials.