Health & Science

Despite orders from the Pennsylvania Health Department not to close yet, Hahnemann staff say hospital leadership is scaling back operations.

Some of Philadelphia’s most desirable neighborhoods come with a risk of increased exposure to auto-related air pollution.

An air quality alert is in effect Thursday at the Jersey Shore for ground level ozone, according to the National Weather Service.

The owner of Hahnemann University Hospital has announced it will close in September because of what the company calls "continuing, unsustainable financial losses."

Philadelphia, state and federal officials gathered Tuesday to assure city residents Friday’s explosion and fire did not result in any public health threat.

Six months in, opponents say a smoking ban at Philadelphia inpatient addiction treatment centers is a barrier to getting started for some. Others leave early.

A hydrogen fluoride release could have had deadly consequences.

TV and movies represent everything that’s wrong about physical education. Some teachers are working to change that.

In low-income countries, "test and treat" is not the typical approach to prevention. There has been no research to support it.

An expert says toxic clinging jellyfish have been found for the first time south of a popular Barnegat Bay boating area off southern Island Beach State Park. 

Lesbian, gay and bisexual adults are more than twice as likely as their non-identifying peers to experience a mental-health condition.

The Health Department says it plans to approve five more partnerships between marijuana growers and research centers this summer.

Conservation groups led by New Jersey Audubon are renewing their efforts to persuade the other bay states — Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — to ban the crab harvest.

The researchers assumed that putting money in the wallet would make people less likely to return it, because the payoff would be bigger. But researchers saw the opposite.

The WHO notified lawmakers that it will discontinue two publications on prescribing opioids in response to allegations that the pharmaceutical industry influenced the reports.