Health & Science

Eating disorder supports are often expensive and not culturally inclusive. As a result, communities of color are building their own opportunities for healing.

A $15 million grant program aims to help people living with opioid use disorder pay rent, utilities and other housing costs.

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

These trips — where volunteers from the West visit poorer countries to perform surgeries — are a billion-dollar endeavor. Is it the best way to provide health care?

Cut way back on red meat, say scientists, who came up with a controversial diet recommended for our health, and the planet’s.

More than a hundred Temple University students have come down with the mumps over the last month. The school is offering two free clinics this week.

Your brain responds to the sweet treat using the same pleasure pathway addictive drugs use, new research shows.

Forty years after the country's worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island could close. That's sparked a debate about the risks and benefits of this carbon-free energy source.

History was supposed to be made Friday when, for the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station.

Anna Broomall broke gender barriers and worked to lower maternal and infant mortality rates.

The health department says there have been four cases of Ewing sarcoma in the past decade in the Canon-McMillan School District.

The medical aid-in-dying bill was controversial, and it passed both the N.J. Assembly and Senate with the minimum number of votes.

Authorities say dozens of spiny dogfish sharks washed up on beaches across southern New Jersey last weekend.

"I would say the average age of our customers is around 60, maybe even a little older," said Kelty Richardson, a registered nurse with the Halos Health clinic in Boulder, Col.

The nation's leading group of kids' doctors has endorsed a range of strategies designed to curb children's consumption — including taxes on sugary drinks and marketing limits.