Health & Science

There's a shortage of primary care providers. University of Pennsylvania is testing a model, using Medicare funds, to train more nurse practitioners.

Eastern Pa., New Jersey and Delaware have seen a rise of about 2 degrees.

"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."

A dangerous invasive jellyfish continues to move south along internal Jersey Shore waterways. The clinging jellyfish, packing a po ...

Those who overdosed were at a much higher risk of death the following year from drug use-associated diseases, HIV, chronic respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide.

Officials say supplies have fallen below the three-day inventory.

The first known case of the Keystone virus has been identified in a 16-year-old boy after a year of tests and analysis.

A new study finds climate-damaging methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas industry are nearly 60 percent higher than Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make us pack on the pounds — we sit at desks all day, grab fast food on the run, and ...

A small group of insurers offers some members with serious illnesses medically tailored meals to improve their health.

A new "gaming disorder" classification from the WHO revives a debate about whether behaviors can cause the same kind of addictive illness as drugs.

A study published Thursday finds that some of these snippets may actually play a vital role in the development of embryos.

The negative effect on African-Americans’ mental health peaked in the month after a police killing, and it dissipated after three months.

A minimal earthquake occurred in South Jersey early Thursday morning, According to the United States Geological Survey, the 1.7 ma ...

State and local authorities could use standards to set their own rules.