Health & Science

Rutgers-Camden study pinpoints childhood trauma as likely source of anxiety, depression and suggests healthy family life, civic engagement can mitigate problems.

A woman with a problematic cervix can go into labor much sooner, which can lead to miscarriage or a baby born so early that the child may die or face lifelong health problems.

Astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.

Two legislative efforts at the state Capitol aim to add resources for paramedics and EMTs including those dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder.

The compensation fund for victims of 9/11 is running out of money and will cut future payments by 50 to 70 percent, officials announced Friday.

The report was published online Thursday in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.

A pair of environmental groups say they plan to sue U.S. Steel following the December fire at Clairton Coke Works that damaged pollution control equipment.

Math is a discipline of logic, but for lots of us, it may as well be magic: a force as powerful as it is unattainable. The “math anxiou ...

After years of being beaten up, this teen decided to take justice into his own hands. A school district in Oregon showed him a better way to solve his problems.

Distrust of vaccines may be almost as contagious as measles, according to medical anthropologist Elisa Sobo.

Philadelphia City Council hearings on the issue will continue into next week as more parents hope to speak out about their experiences with DHS.

NASA's Opportunity, the Mars rover that was built to operate for just three months but kept going and going, was pronounced dead Wednesday.

Jobs in Pennsylvania’s solar industry grew 10 percent last year while declining three percent nationally, according to a new analysis.

The state Department of Health says the plans are part of a broad multiagency strategy to foster syringe-access programs and other offerings across New Jersey.

Black women have higher rates of birth complications at hospitals because doctors often don’t believe their pain.