Health & Science

Since China has stopped accepting America's plastic recyclables, one solution to dealing with the excess material has been to burn it in already-existing trash incinerators.

Rising temperatures and longer mosquito season create a ‘perfect storm’ for virus transmission.

A handful of physicians are using the show to teach medical students how to diagnose disease.

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has pinpointed 20 locations with high PFAS levels in water sources. They include areas of Bucks and Montgomery counties.

The Department of Education was invited to be part of the roundtable event but declined.

It can be hard for some ER patients to fill prescriptions, so a new Temple program sends them home with medicine, to keep them from coming back.

Cancer patients are 2.65 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death.

The only member of Pennsylvania’s delegation to support the resolution to date is Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle from Northeast Philly.

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

The draft, obtained by StateImpact Pennsylvania, is being actively worked on by state lawmakers, and the specifics could change.

Critics say promises won’t make the cross-state pipeline project any safer.

The Trump administration’s new rules would place further restrictions on how organizations in receipt of Title X money could operate.

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Spark Therapeutics says being acquired by Roche will help it expand its gene therapy treatments while staying in Philadelphia.

A new study shows that health-related searches spike in the week before a hospital visit — and how analyzing that data could improve patient care.