Health & Science

Some scientists are welcoming this as a potentially exciting new option for some women.

To save the bats of Pennsylvania, Greg Turner wants to build a better bat cave.

Under the new program, when a patient is admitted, a tailored care plan will pop up next to his name in the system — describing previous treatment and any preferences.

Daylight lasts 14 hours and 52 minutes now, and the rate at which we’re gaining daylight is slowing dramatically. The rate at which we ...

It's not the first time that baking soda has been investigated as a potential aid to cancer therapy, but it’s the first study to reveal how and why it’s able to help.

The proportion of interested people who said they or a family member had ever ordered a direct-to-consumer test was 32 percent.

The study is the largest ever done of breast cancer treatment, and the results are expected to spare up to 70,000 patients a year in the United States and many more elsewhere.

Yardley woman waits to see if new law allows her husband to get experimental medication for ALS.

On this week’s show, we talk with people taking their health and wellness into their own hands — with varying results.

The government is reviewing the status of an herbal supplement touted to ease opioid addiction.

Still reeling after lasts year’s storm season, women in the town of Mariana, Puerto Rico, spend time together and prepare meals for others to ease depression.

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

More than 100 displaced people accepted help in the form or treatment or shelter while demonstrators protested the eviction.

One out of three people enrolled in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit plan received an opioid in 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Advocate says change can be accomplished simply: Remove 13 words in the current CHIP statute that exclude undocumented kids from eligibility.