Health & Science

February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. It's a perfect opportunity to talk to young people.

A millennial mom wants a black pediatrician for her girls and wrestles with why the search was so hard — and why finding a black doctor matters.

Villanova students participating in “Red Thumbs Mars Garden Project” have been nurturing plants that might someday thrive in greenhouses 34 million miles from Earth.

For many children, it's an eye-opening experience just learning that they're not the only person who lost a parent.

In Chicago, one doctor traces the health disparities between white and black residents to the neighborhoods where they live.

The Department of Environmental Protection’s penalty for dozens of permit violations over the last year was among the largest ever handed out by the agency.

Nearly 1,000 flu cases were reported in Delaware for the week ending Feb. 3, the highest total in a single week since the state’s been keeping records.

About eight percent of Americans will contend with post-traumatic stress disorder at some point in their lives; for military veterans, the incidence is much higher.

A new feature of the next iPhone operating system lets patients store information about medication, allergies, and lab results on their phones.

A heated meeting on Friday night showed that turning the idea of Philadelphia opening the country's first safe-injection site into a reality will likely face pushback.

Four months after having her second baby, Jessica Porten started feeling really irritable. Little things would annoy her, like her glider chair.

The peak of the flu season could still be several weeks away, federal health officials cautioned Friday.

Funding officially runs out at the end of March unless Thursday's vote reverses that.