Health & Science

A critical part of NASA's next $2 billion rover mission to Mars broke during testing earlier this month.

The problem with benzos, as they're also known, is that they're highly addictive medications, both physically and psychologically.

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. Scientists are studying what's unique about the disease in the state.

How an unproven diabetes treatment has a found a home in the Bronx

Diabetes costs more healthcare dollars than any other disease in the United States. But beyond the huge financial price tag — diabetes ...

Until now, any operating dispensaries have been in the suburbs.

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

Diabetes runs is Kristen Cabrera’s family. Her dad, plus seven aunts and uncles have the illness. She gathered them at home in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to talk about it.

At community outreach in Bristol Township, recovery home residents invite residents to hear how the homes work — and how important they are to those fighting addictions.

The penalty for not having health insurance in 2018 is the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of household income.

“Fentanyl has taken over from heroin as the number one drug that’s killing people in Philadelphia today,” said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.

The Ruth Williams House’s 88 new units are reserved for those who have been homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless.

Our sun, like so many others, was born as part of a cluster of stars. Sibling stars have the same chemical composition and can be discove ...

The longhorned tick is known to transmit diseases in East Asia, but no disease has been detected in the ones found in Hunterdon County.

As more states legalize marijuana, there's growing interest in a cannabis extract — cannabidiol, also known as CBD.