Health & Science

Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them.

With female incarceration rates rising in the United States, prisons and jails across the country are contending with new challenges, including caring for pregnant women.

The Philadelphia Midwife Collective has launched a GoFundMe campaign to open a birth center they hope will make inclusive care more accessible.

Deaths connected to suicide, drugs, and alcohol are soaring among millennials nationwide, and hitting Pennsylvania especially hard.

The battle to contain the worst U.S. measles outbreak in 27 years has a new front: summer camp.

Three Canadian artists traveled to 22 countries to research and document "places of obvious, physical human incursions on the landscape."

House Bill 629 passed the house and currently sits in the Senate Insurance and Banking Committee, where past versions of this bill have all stalled. 

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

About 30 million Americans have this allergy noted in their medical records. That means the most commonly prescribed antibiotics are off-limits.

You’re developing a new, revolutionary product. You have all the science figured out, it works like a charm. Problem is, nobody wants ...

Red dye was released for 12 hours during an exam of how a wastewater spill could affect shellfish in the Delaware Bay.

The Farris Institute was once Philadelphia's premiere clinic for artificial insemination. But it left an unknown number of children wondering who their fathers really were.

Pennsylvania Senate may tighten rules on doctors using buprenorphine.

Wilmington resident Judy Govatos has survived cancer twice. If it returns, she wants to be able to choose how to die and is pushing for a controversial bill in Delaware.

The FDA tested 91 meat, dairy, grain, and produce samples, and found PFAS in 10 of them.