Behavioral Health

Over the last several months we have been hit with events of terror, tragedy, disaster, and political upheaval. With today’s 16th a ...

Deborah Fuller is nervous. The Camden County, New Jersey, resident is going before Congress next week to testify at a hearing on the role ...

Thanks to a new grant, doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia will be talking to teen moms about their options for fami ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has found that health insurance plans available in the marketplaces establis ...

Amid a national shortage of psychiatrists, residents of rural and low-income areas feel are feeling the  pinch more strongly. Ech ...

One third of adults in Philadelphia have used an opioid in the last year, and the majority of those drugs came directly from a doctor. Th ...

As the second week of clearing out the heroin havens along the Conrail railroad gulch in Philadelphia’s Kensington section draws to ...

As work progressed on the cleanup of the Conrail tracks frequented by heroin users in Philadelphia’s Kensington and Fairh ...

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

The goal is a lofty one — to transform the city of Philadelphia. Organizers of Greater Philadelphia Trauma Training Conference are goin ...

Astronauts often become lab rats of sorts – scientists have an intense interest in studying how space affects their bodies and mind ...

Work to clean up the notorious heroin encampment at the Conrail tracks in Kensington has encountered a delay. Conrail workers were ...

There’s a body of opinion that believes that laughter might, for some illnesses, be the best medicine.