Health & Science

The new study is the first to break down pregnancy-related death rates by race and state, offering clues for public health officials to take action.

There have been nearly a dozen mass shootings this month and a total 346 mass shootings so far this year — each one leaving a heavy toll for communities around them.

New regulations require more direct care hours for residents and tighter staffing ratios at nearly 700 long-term care facilities statewide.

Monday's moon is a so-called supermoon because it will be both full and located close to Earth on its elliptical orbit around our planet.

About 73% of all firework-related injuries nationally occur in the two weeks before and after the Fourth of July.

We’ll look at freedom from different perspectives.

The CDC concluded that by 2021, the "rate of drug overdose deaths involving xylazine was 35 times higher than the 2018 rate."

Penn Medicine is also weighing the possibility of re-establishing emergency care at Brandywine Hospital “beyond the partnership with the VA.”

Tower Health and Penn Medicine signed a letter of intent that would allow Penn to acquire Brandywine Hospital in Coatesville.

According to data the state shares with the federal government, nearly 20% of Pennsylvanians who had to renew their Medical Assistance coverage have lost it.

A new microreactor being developed at the Idaho National Laboratory will be small enough to put on a tractor trailer and nimble enough to send to a disaster site.

Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

While the U.S. struggles to build long-term storage for nuclear waste, other countries like Sweden, Finland, and Canada move forward with plans for geologic repositories.

Pennsylvania law only allows physicians to perform abortions. Advanced practice clinicians say they want to be able to do the same.

Fishing grounds are being closed, but new technology could help avoid that.