Health & Science

Researchers are discovering that plastic doesn’t just float on the sea's surface. Mass amounts rain all the way down to the seafloor, filling the guts of deep-sea organisms.

Historian and Harvard professor Anne Harrington believes that pharmaceutical companies have played an oversized role in determining how mental illness is treated in the U.S.

Seaweed farming is still a promising idea that benefits the environment, but doing it at scale requires more work.

Some Pennsylvania counties are facing challenges to getting drop-in centers up and running and keeping them funded.

A Danish offshore wind company is eyeing the N.J. coal plant as a site to connect offshore wind turbines to the electric grid.

Most of the powerful synthetic opioid comes here from China. Officials hope strict new rules will curtail the flow that’s driving overdose deaths.

On-site gardening programs allow recovering people to gain confidence and skill — and they also help solve food insecurity.

We look at the measles outbreaks, the underlying reasons parents don't vaccinate their children and efforts by public health officials to change their minds.

Judge halts Trump administration’s efforts to change how Title X funds can be used; ‘Protect X’ campaign to continue, including in N.J.

According to the CDC, people who were vaccinated prior to 1968 with an early version of the vaccine, which was made from an inactivated (killed) virus, should be revaccinated

The controversial Netflix series graphically depicts a suicide. Researchers wondered how much harm does the second season might do.

"If you have to get sick, sure can't beat the measles," sister Marcia says, as the older Bradys sit around a Monopoly board on one of the kid's beds.

The newer 3D mammogram offers a more thorough picture of breast tissue and is more accurate.

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

As baby boomers age and the workforce shrinks, there may not be enough people or money to care for all our elders, especially those with medical needs.