Health & Science

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her sweeping plan to reduce drug prices Thursday, which included an international price index.

Type 1 diabetes can be well managed with insulin if blood sugar is consistently monitored. But insurance rules can make it hard for patients to get medical supplies.

The salt marsh mosquito was once nicknamed the “New Jersey state bird.” But changing conditions are shifting concern from that mosquito to others.

Children spend a lot of time on screens, which worries many parents. We discuss the effects of screens on kids' mental, physical, emotional, and social health.

More than 3 million women experienced rape as their first sexual encounter, according to a new study, which surveyed women ages 18 to 44.

A federal judge has temporarily stopped the sale of more than 550 slots for doctors in training, cutting off a potential infusion of funds to the troubled hospital.

StateImpact Pa. signed on to “Covering Climate Now,” an effort that describes itself as “aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis.”

The survey found that New Jersey bald eagles registered the highest recorded number of active nests and young fledged.

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing to launch a new three-digit hotline for people who are feeling suicidal or are going through any other mental health crisis.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said heavy rain caused the hole, and that there was no contamination or environmental impact.

The conversation ranged from how to engage vulnerable populations, to the ways in which people of color are left out of climate conversations.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is putting out the call on its 100th anniversary to name an exoplanet and its star.

"Science is increasingly part of our education, work, and lives in a changing economy.”

Pennsylvania is under siege.