Health & Science

Thousands of gravely ill cancer patients each year seek "compassionate use" access to treatments that are not yet on the market but have shown some promise.

Developer and agencies deny effort to shield from public view plans that would allow for transfer of potentially explosive liquefied natural gas to ocean-going tankers.

Scientists are racing to figure out how it much could contribute to sea level rise and impact cites and coastlines thousands of miles away, including the Philly region.

"The bottom line is that ultimately they seem to be double counting — double charging essentially for the costs of backup generation," he says.

It's often the default setting on fitness trackers, but what's it really based on?

On Monday, 52 tornadoes may have touched down across eight states, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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The judge granted the clinic's request for a temporary restraining order and set a hearing date in early June.

“What you’re seeing here is not unusual. What made it noteworthy is how persistent and stubborn that pattern has been.”

The Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said.

There’s a comfort to the mainstream way of doing things — it offers standard solutions to standard problems. But sometimes existing s ...

To meet this new moment, Staley says, PrEP4All activists are using some of the same broad tactics as ACT UP, but also increasing their activity behind the scenes.

Experts said there were tornadoes on Tuesday in Indiana, Bradford and Berks counties. There were no reports of injuries.

No other country is experiencing an addiction problem on a U.S. scale, Mundipharma noted. But, globally, the network continues to expand.

A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay said Pennsylvania has failed to protect the nation's largest estuary from farm manure and stormwater.