Behavioral Health

Guests: Mike Felker, Anna Stormer, Patrick Dugan Veterans Day was Sunday so we thought we’d talk with a couple ...

Those with special needs are living longer, but that means they are more susceptible to age-related diseases such as Alzheimer's

Guests: Julie Norem, Emiliana Simon-Thomas It’s hard to be an optimist these days. The synagogue shooting a ...

Sharps deposit boxes are Philadelphia’s newest tool in its four-week-old recovery campaign for opioid-plagued Kensington.

Guests: Heath Fogg Davis, Leonore Carpenter, Nadia Dowshen The Trump administration is considering legally defini ...

While the bulk of fatal overdoses still happen in urban areas, the rural overdose rate has increased to slightly surpass that of cities.

Nerve-racking. Sickening. Facing your fear can be all of that — and sometimes a little thrilling, too.

Joel Davis thought he was taking a dose of heroin inside his Newark home on Feb. 15, 2017. What he didn’t know was that the drug had be ...

The state is one of the last to move away from a 1970s standard that said someone had to be a “clear and present danger.” But the shift is controversial.

Certain language in web posts was about as accurate in predicting an individual would be depressed as intake screening surveys at a doctor’s office.

Guests: Marla Gold, Astra Czerny, Jim Hopper Feeling exhausted and upset after the Kavanaugh/Ford testimony? Many ...

A three-year study will investigate to what extent autism researchers include stakeholder groups in the design phase, and whether that affects what research is done.

Medicine, healthcare — even illness — vary from country to country. Those differences are driven by tradition, culture, even politics ...

In spite of high costs and sketchy results, taxicabs are ferrying more and more Philadelphia students to school each year.

Service dog providers are seeing an influx of applications from veterans who have experienced sexual trauma while in the military.