Health & Science

Black applicants to a prestigious research grant program at the National Institutes of Health are awarded funding at a significantly lower rate than their white peers.

Years after Mary Lee appeared, and following the brief blip of Miss May in July, there’s a new great white shark to track. His name is Shaw.

Walgreens is testing out delivery from store to door by drone in Virginia, and UPS won approval to expand air delivery of medical supplies.

Johnson & Johnson on Friday recalled a single batch of its baby powder as a precaution after government testing found trace amounts of asbestos in one bottle bought online.

Dairy farmers can go to this online catalog and pick a bull, and the company will ship doses of semen to impregnate their cows.

Finding the right medication to treat mental health problems can be a frustrating trial-and-error process. New genetic tests aim to match meds to patients, but do they work?

The Mütter Museum created an interactive online database that maps the 1918 flu epidemic as it swept through Philadelphia.

Cars have played a fundamental role in changing our modern lives — where we live, where we work, the shape of our communities, and how ...

Flavored e-cigarettes have hooked millions of teens to nicotine. Now, Juul says it will suspend sales of many flavors. Some call the move too little, too late.

Like clockwork, the monarch butterfly migration season along the Jersey Shore is heating up.

Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men.

The bill is not as sweeping as other cities’ proposed vaping bans, but Philadelphia Health Commissioner Thomas Farley says that’s intentional.

College health experts called the move short-sighted and risky at a time of growing mental health needs among students.

A new Urban Institute report prices out popular reforms like “Medicare for All” and a so-called public option. Who will they cover? What will they cost?

Derrick H. Pitts has been named one of the 50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science.