Health Care

National nonprofit awards groups fighting opioid epidemic with innovative programs and initiatives that can be established all over the country.

Abortion rights supporters in Delaware and across the country showed solidarity for women in states with abortion restrictions.

Nearly two dozen states and municipalities sued the federal government Tuesday to stop a new rule that lets health care clinicians decline to provide abortions.

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.

The measures are moving ahead despite lawmakers’ failure to pass a bill legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use.

As multiple states pass laws banning many abortions, questions have surfaced about what exactly that means for women who might seek an abortion. The short answer: nothing yet.

We discuss the stringent anti-abortion bills passing in statehouses around the country, how they could impact women's health and the challenge they pose to Roe v, Wade.

Governor Tom Wolf has said he will veto the measure if the Senate passes it to him.

From 1989 to 1991, more than 55,000 people got measles. Federal funding and parents embracing vaccines halted the outbreak.

Black mothers die at a rate that's 3.3 times greater than whites , and Native American or Alaskan native women die at a rate 2.5 times greater than whites.

State Rep. Brian Sims self-recorded two videos as he harassed anti-abortion demonstrators outside a Planned Parenthood facility in Center City. Backlash has been swift.

President Donald Trump will begin a push Thursday to fight health care sticker shock by limiting "surprise medical bills."

The Medical Society of New Jersey has charted a middle-of-the-road course in dealing with the controversial new law.

A Jefferson initiative aims to make patient care more accommodating. It offers noise-canceling headphones, chairs that rock, and ‘fidgets’ to occupy hands.

The plan would eliminate the state's $4 billion behavioral health program, merging it with the state's $12 billion physical health Medicaid program.