Health & Science

Susan G. Komen replaced its ‘Race for the Cure’ with a ‘More Than Pink’ walk, a gated event requiring paid registration to focus on breast cancer care, research.

A microorganism that played a role in treating tuberculosis is now officially recognized as New Jersey's state microbe.

Black mothers die at a rate that's 3.3 times greater than whites , and Native American or Alaskan native women die at a rate 2.5 times greater than whites.

Two researchers suggest a small amount of Earth’s heaviest elements were created in the collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion ...

If you just take a snippet out of a gene without inserting anything new, the product falls into a gray area.

Pa. has decided one of the best ways to spot small wildfires in places like the Moshannon State Forest is to go old-school.

When’s the last time you saw a get-well card for psoriasis or eczema? Skin’s our biggest organ — and does lots of hard work keeping ...

Reach Out and Read, with 81 sites in the Philadelphia area alone, helps families with young children that typically don’t own books and can’t afford them.

Reading, even talking, to a little one furiously directs neuron fibers to places in the brain where the magic of language, memory and attention develop.

Pennsylvania has had the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the U.S since 2000.

New Jersey will make it easier for women to access doulas, who offer can offer guidance and support during deliveries.

The medieval plague known as the Black Death is making headlines this month.

Nature appears to be fighting back against a destructive, invasive insect in Pennsylvania, according to new research.

We discuss whether or not the rules around personal space and touching have changed and discuss the social and emotional benefits of human touch,

Somewhere in the United States, a space like the one being proposed in Philadelphia is already in operation.