Health & Science

While scientists disagree about what's behind the sluggish ocean current, the shift could mean bad news for the climate.

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand.

This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

The idea is that technology has distorted how we view ourselves and society — and yet, it is an inescapable part of us.

A computer scientist is pushing large video game makers to design games that blind people can enjoy.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

Matt Roda of Lancaster County was a junior in high school when a single hockey game changed his entire life.

Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.

Guest: Menno Schilthuizen Our fast-paced crowded cities aren’t just impacting our lives, they are shaping anima ...

In the U.S., we’re engaging in a method of eugenics by reducing populations of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

Pennsylvania announced approval of $25 million in funding for cleanup of abandoned mines at 12 sites around the state.

Delaware's flu season is not over as evidenced by three new flu-related deaths reported by the Delaware Division of Public Health.

Astronomers have detected a galaxy that seems to be devoid of dark matter. That possibility has theorists re-evaluating gravity’s r ...

Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.