Jessica McDonald

While on a population basis Lyme disease is still more common in more northeastern states such as Connecticut and Vermont, Pennsylvania h ...

With advances in medication, infection with HIV is no longer a death sentence. But with longer life comes the chance of cancer. Now, a st ...

Ever wonder why you need to take twice as many pain pills as your friend for the same type of injury? Pain is influenced by a lot of fact ...

Complicated births can be scary for pregnant women, who often have no choice but to go into labor a month or more early. But a new study ...

The last thing you want to do when you hit the waves this summer is contract stomach flu or hepatitis, from swimming in contaminated wate ...

The NFL has reached a new agreement with former players suing over football-related brain injuries that should cover players who develop ...

Learning to drive can be difficult — for teenagers and their parents. But with car crashes still leading the cause of death for tee ...

Not long ago, if you were a mechanical engineering student, that meant hours and hours in the machine shop, perfecting your lathing and m ...

Historically, Philadelphia’s no slouch when it comes to invention. Continuing that trend Wednesday was Erik Spiller, a 19-year-old ...

Have you ditched your spiral bound notebook for an iPad? If you’re still in school, you might want to reconsider. According to a ...

To combat the increasing problem of opiate abuse, primary care physicians in New Jersey have kicked off a new telemedicine program.  ...

Most people don’t get sick with the same infection twice, thanks to immune cells that “remember” the first encounter an ...