Health & Science

In 2017, China passed the National Sword policy banning plastic waste from being imported — for the protection of the environment — starting in January 2018.

Sharing personal narratives can help the storytellers see some of the good in their lives amid the trauma.

New Jersey’s beaches are in better shape than they were before Superstorm Sandy thanks to sound public policy, government coordinat ...

These humble beaches turn into a mixing bowl for influenza between mid-May and early June.

After Pfizer cut back on production, Philly's Penn Presbyterian Medical Center is getting 30 percent less injectable morphine, fentanyl, and Dilaudid than it did a year ago.

Farmers in southern Pa. will face higher temps and changes to the growing season that will place stresses on corn production and the dairy industry.

Rebroadcast: Happy Birthday, America! From the very beginning, science has shaped this country. Many of the Founding Fathers — Madison, ...

The new facility will capture 60 million gallons a year of runoff from 20 commercial properties in Northeast Philadelphia.

Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.

The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease

New Jersey beachgoers can swim comfortably as of early this week, a striking contrast to this time last year.

As Mona Hanna-Attisha began reviewing her patients' medical records, she noticed the percentage of children with elevated lead levels had increased after the water switch.

Dave Heller and Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, discuss efforts to peer all the way back in time and space wit ...