Health & Science

Pregnancy rates among black and Latina teens are much higher than for white teens, but use of the most effective contraceptives is low among all teens.

The law would lessen the requirements to have someone be mandated to receive outpatient services for a mental illness.

Left off publications due to Nazi prejudice, this Jewish woman lost her rightful place in the scientific pantheon as the discoverer of nuclear fission.

Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have detected that our Milky Way galaxy, while ...

The effort to eliminate HIV by 2030, will target “hotspots” nationwide for extra resources to diagnose, treat, and prevent the disease.

Ethan Lindenberger had never received vaccines for diseases like polio or measles because his mom is anti-vaccine. Now he's 18 and he's finally getting his shots.

Focus less on the meat-free or health aspects of plant-based foods — which tend to make consumers feel like they're missing out – and more on their flavor.

A measles outbreak in Washington state prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to declare a state of emergency on Jan. 25. As of Thursday, 55 cases have been confirmed this year.

The Unicode Consortium, the organization that decides which symbols get to be emojis, released its 2019 additions this week. A "drop of blood" emoji has been added to the mix.

About 1.1 million Americans are at high risk for HIV and could benefit from PrEP, according to the CDC. Around half of those are black men and women.

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 ...