Jessica McDonald

Catching up on lost sleep is a favorite pastime of students and night-shift workers. But if the human brain is anything like that of mice ...

After two years of work, the New Jersey task force charged with investigating the state’s opiate abuse problem has recommended tigh ...

Less than a third of smokers are able to go a full year without a cigarette, even when they’re getting help from a nicotine pa ...

Researchers are getting closer to figuring out how to transform gut cells into insulin powerhouses. The only cell in the body tha ...

Four years after New Jersey passed its medical marijuana law ...

With approximately $180 million at stake, a hearing that begins Friday may be one of the most important legal proceedings in Pennsylvania ...

When an infection won’t respond to any available antibiotics, drug-resistant genes can turn deadly. Picking up drug-resistan ...

Trace amounts of peanuts that might prove deadly for a few allergic classmates have nearly eliminated the old peanut-butter-and-jelly sta ...

An invasive species with few natural predators in the United States, the brown marmora ...

If you think the only job of your taste receptors is to keep you coming back to the candy dish, think again. Researchers at the Universit ...

After seven public hearings and more than 1,000 comments on his “Healthy PA” plan, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s ...

Common sense tells you that having health insurance should improve your health. But in the emergency room, having insurance might actuall ...