Health & Science

Three New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories Tuesday due to elevated bacteria counts. 

Advice from others can be helpful – but it’s not always welcome. When a neighbor, colleague or loved one tries to tell you how to liv ...

When it comes to cancer survival, the United States is sharply divided by race.

The successor to the highly successful Kepler planet-hunting satellite TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) sent the first data d ...

Patients using medication-assisted treatments slowly being accepted into group recovery homes.

"It's about a deeper issue: ... Is healthcare structured to give patients the information they need to make informed decisions?"

Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

For Adesola Ogunleye, it took more than 20 years to understand the roots of her anxiety

The engineered cells are made by extracting T cells — a key part of the immune system -- from each patient's blood and then genetically modifying them in the lab.

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety ta ...

Our bodies are programmed to go on alert in the face of danger. But what happens when that reflex goes haywire?

The 1964 Civil Rights Act require hospitals and other facilities that offer medical services and receive federal funds to provide "meaningful access" to patients.

For many farmers in the state, last month's intense precipitation is part of a pattern of weather changes of which they are trying to adapt.

It's a historic day in Seaside Heights but not for a good reason. 

Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves.