Health & Science

New Jersey's medical marijuana program has seen a 150 percent increase in the number of patients participating since Gov. Phil Murphy took office, the Democrat said Thursday.

Leah Still is nearing four years in remission and her father has become an author, motivational speaker, and an inspiration.

Lawmakers consider expanding end-of-life options, but not for people with Alzheimer’s disease.

Japan has ambitious goals to become the “hydrogen society,” and right now, the focus is on its automakers.

Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his new book, "Mama's Last Hug" about wide range of emotions that animals display.and what they tell us about ourselves.

A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited babies into the world.

Drugmakers add inactive ingredients to stabilize medications and sometimes to help the body absorb active ingredients. But the inactive constituents can cause side effects.

Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.

The Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.

Three Mile Island Alert is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” at Exelon's Three Mile Island plant.

The Allegheny County Health Department revised an order against U.S. Steel that required it to significantly curb emissions from three of its Pittsburgh-area facilities.

First responders in Pennsylvania have been reporting a recurring problem when reviving overdose victims. Often, they're helping the same people, over and over.

Most with substance-use disorder begin using opioids as teenagers, so a Pennsylvania campaign aims to get young people to stop and think before taking pills.

Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."

The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.