Health & Science

A company incorporated in Delaware won $100,000 EPA grant for technology that could help remove PFAS contamination that’s been found near military bases.

The study done by the Public Health Department, with help from Drexel researchers, shows dramatic, but unsurprising differences, within the city.

In a letter Friday, the dean of the medical college said those who applied for tuition remission can still collect it for themselves and their dependents.

A chemical plant in Chester, Pa. will pay a $750,000 penalty for nearly six years worth of air quality violations as part of a settlement reached with the DEP.

Our planet’s surface is 71% water — with five vast oceans that span a range of temperatures and shades of blue. Humans have long love ...

Facing a surge in Hepatitis A infections, Philadelphia has declared a public health emergency.

Delaware is the 12th state to spot the invasive Asian longhorned tick.

Globally, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming an increasing problem. The Wistar Institute convened researchers to discuss alternative treatments.

New Jersey is now the eighth state, plus the District of Columbia, to allow terminally ill patients to acquire lethal medication to end their lives.

It weakens an import ban that has stood as a symbol of the political clout of the pharmaceutical industry.

Because the hospital real estate is owned separately from its business, some worry that its for-profit owner will sell to developers and come out ahead.

It’s a tough question: Why do we look different? As one high school’s syllabus puts it, race is “both a biological myth and a social reality.”

Hydroflouric acid is a toxic chemical used in local refineries. Why a release during the recent South Philly refinery explosion would have been disastrous.

On the last day for most of the residents, one doctor-in-training bids farewell to the 171-year-old teaching hospital at Broad and Vine Streets.

The likelihood of accidental OD is severely overhyped.