Health & Science

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has added anxiety disorders and Tourette syndrome to the list of medical conditions approved for receiving medical marijuana.

Dozens of prosecutors across the country are now backing Safehouse.

Government scientists predict 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding this year.

Area nurses, midwives and other medical providers said the loss of a hospital like Hahnemann that takes many Medicaid-dependent patients is unfathomable.

Drexel College of Medicine and Hahnemann Hospital announced a shift of most residency programs to Philly region facilities managed by Tower Health.

The researchers, who met decades ago, share a lifelong passion to stop AIDS.

The International Space Station is getting older, and NASA wants commercial businesses will take over so that the space agency can focus its efforts on a return to the moon.

A pricing tool embedded in many medical records systems lets doctors see how much each patient is likely to pay out-of-pocket for medicine. But the tools could be better.

The move to solar was important because after Maria it took months before power was restored to the area.

Ten years ago, the fracking industry was already booming in Pa., but people in Ohio were just starting to hear about it.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported the magnitude was 7.1. It's the biggest earthquake in Southern California in 20 years and follows a 6.4 magnitude earthquake Thursday.

We start the hour talking with U.S. Representative Madeleine Dean about her visit to migrant detentions centers and then, we discuss the role compassion plays in medicine.

The most effective way to fight global warming is to plant lots of trees, a study says. A trillion of them, maybe more.

According to an April article published by Penn State researcher Jeffrey Graybill, the plant has been aggressively spreading across the state.

Fifty years ago, NASA had to design and build everything for the Apollo mission. Now, it will place an order with a private Pennsylvania company for a lunar lander.