Health & Science

Drug overdose deaths and homicides mean that life expectancy in Philadelphia actually dropped, following a national trend.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continues its sojourn through the outer reaches of our solar system. For the next 20 months, it will ...

Social workers are warning that a new ban on smoking at Philadelphia drug treatment centers could be deal breaker for those seeking help.

A Caribbean island once full of lush trees and teeming with wildlife is nearly completely deforested and undergoing a mass extinction event.

They call it the golden years, but there’s a reason many of us dread old age — it can mean losing our health, our independence, our m ...

The latest report shows flu taking the steep climb that often follows holiday gatherings and the beginning of the new year.

It took five years to find a ballet academy open to children of all abilities. Finally, at Pennsylvania Ballet Academy in Camp Hill the bALLet class was born.

The Surfrider Foundation's 2018  "State of the Beach Report Card" has given the state a failing grade for its "inadequate protection of coastal communities and resources."

The six-wheeled rover landed in the southern section of the Von Kármán crater, near the moon's south pole, Chinese media reported.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has survived the most distant exploration of another world, a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles away that looks to be shaped like a peanut.

Many of the purported benefits of cold hinge on brown fat, sometimes referred to as "good" fat. Long known to exist in infants, brown fat burns calories and generates heat.

About a billion miles beyond Pluto, a spacecraft is closing in on an icy minor planet — a mysterious little place that's only about 20 miles across.

Children who withdraw from frightening situations or environments may be more likely to struggle with social anxiety, later in life, psychologists find.

The public comments period ended Friday for a proposed federal rule that would allow more employers to use health reimbursement arrangements.

More thorough health screenings, as well as secondary screenings, will be held for every child in Border Patrol custody following the deaths of two Guatemalan children.