Health & Science

Once people sign up, it’s up to state-approved doctors to decide whether to grant a medical marijuana card.

Advocates for Pennsylvania landowners are challenging a statement made recently by one of Governor Tom Wolf’s top aides, after saying complaints over gas royalties subsided.

Activists set up a pancake breakfast picnic on an Amish farm in Conestoga adjacent to a construction site and invited the pipeline workers to share a meal.

A New York company is planning to build a natural gas plant in Pennsylvania’s biggest coal county.

The Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has issued a new policy restricting who can serve on the agency's advisory boards.

What happens when we step away from people and places?

Many enrollees received letters from their insurance company noting increased premiums for 2018 but they didn't include updated subsidy amounts.

As the hurricane threatened, Miami-Dade County opened more than 40 shelters for people who needed a safe place to go. Some low-income, vulnerable people needed more support.

A bill aims to address abandoned mine lands with a focus on economic development. Proponents see it as a way to imagine a more sustainable future for old coal country.

PFOA has been linked to cancer, high cholesterol, and developmental problems in young children

With an enrollment period that’s been cut in half and calls from the GOP to end Obamacare, the call for enrollment in the ACA has been more pressing than ever.

AstraZeneca gets FDA approval to move forward with Calquence (acalabrutinib), a drug used to fight an aggressive form of blood cancer.

Nursing students go through several rotations, and, at Jefferson College of Nursing in Philadelphia, that can include time at a maximum security prison.

The devastation left by last month’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on Puerto Rico.

He claims, though, that he won't actively end his life — he's always been opposed to euthanasia, and to "death with dignity" — he will not try to prolong it either.