Health & Science

A team of scientists from MIT have developed a system to deliver insulin that actually still uses a needle — but is so small you can swallow it and the injection doesn't hurt.

A Philadelphia police-assisted diversion program has expanded to the epicenter of the opioid crisis. The goal is to provide services to some drug users — not to make arrests.

The U.S. Attorney's office has filed a lawsuit to prevent Philadelphia from becoming home to America's first supervised injection sites.

Since the name of the evolutionary game is survival & reproduction, why live longer than you can reproduce? In the '60s, researchers came up with the "grandmother hypothesis."

What matters to a child’s health? Sure, some things are embedded in our genetics. But from the moment we’re born, there are a million ...

Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, is hoping to control mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, by switching off their enormous appetite.

The New Jersey Assembly passed a measure late last week removing the religious exemption as a reason parents can refrain from having their children vaccinated.

Once again, the New Jersey osprey comeback story added another happy chapter to 2018, a report released by the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey finds.

Like many cities, when schools closed for the day, usually schoolyards did too. But when the school district upgraded its playgrounds, it kept them open longer.

New Jersey scientists are accusing the federal government not considering many health risks posed by a group of chemicals that are designed to substitute PFAs.

If you pick up what is often called the "bible of psychiatry," you'll find that the list of core symptoms for major depression doesn't include anger.

The 63-year-old refinery near Delaware City, Delaware has had fatal accidents blamed on negligence and pollution fines. Sunday’s fire in the crude oil unit was the latest.

Philadelphia has cleared the Emerald Street encampment, but many in the grip of addiction remain on the street.

Today there is a vaccine for this extremely contagious disease. But certain groups of parents opt not to vaccinate their children and that has led to outbreaks abroad.

Research into groundhog biology shows they have other priorities in early February than mingling with the people of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and it all boils down to sex.