Health & Science

After a bike ride down the Mississippi, Devi Lockwood set out to record water stories on every continent. Here are two: one from Afghanistan, the other from China.

Dogs who drink toilet water are a health risk to themselves and maybe to the entire family.

While not a big jump statistically — the share of uninsured kids rose to 5 percent in 2017 from 4.7 percent a year earlier — it is still striking.

Lankenau's Wellness Farm yields thousands of pounds of produce for distribution to patients at no charge.

Most of the women who seek abortions are married, poor and already have children.

He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in China, addressed hundreds of scientists gathered at an international gene-editing summit in Hong Kong.

Among states, Pennsylvania is the third biggest emitter of carbon. The petition sets in motion a legal process that entails a response from the state.

Blood tests for more than 230 residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties have come back showing high levels of a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.

For the first time, a scientist claims to have used a powerful new gene-editing technique to create genetically modified human babies.

NASA's InSight probe landed successfully on Mars today at shortly before 3 p.m. ET.