Health Care

It's not the first time that baking soda has been investigated as a potential aid to cancer therapy, but it’s the first study to reveal how and why it’s able to help.

Yardley woman waits to see if new law allows her husband to get experimental medication for ALS.

On this week’s show, we talk with people taking their health and wellness into their own hands — with varying results.

Advocate says change can be accomplished simply: Remove 13 words in the current CHIP statute that exclude undocumented kids from eligibility.

Many Medicare patients don't realize they can sometimes pay less out-of-pocket for a prescription drug if they pay cash, instead of the insurance copay.

Emergency medicine doctor Emmy Betz wanted to get more comfortable with guns. Pistol instructor and family physician Michael Victoroff had a proposal for her.

Blood Bank of Delmarva hopes to double the amount of donors during its 16th annual summer blood drive, which kicked off Monday.

Geo-fencing has been deployed by retailers for years. Bringing it into health care spaces, however, is raising alarm among privacy experts.

"Prices like this are bad for patients," said David Mitchell, who last year founded the nonprofit advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs. "They hurt patients."

An independent assessment of health care at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center near Smyrna finds fault with its 'sick call' process.

A bill making its way through the Pa. legislature has split a community brought together by a common diagnosis, and it could be the next front in the abortion debate.

Designating the schools as certified academic clinical research centers will help bulk up the meager federal research on medical marijuana, governor says.

With polls open until 8 p.m., we have the latest in the Pennsylvania primary. The Pennsylvania legislature is considering a bill that wou ...

Scientists have launched two large studies to test a treatment that could have an enormous impact on the leading cause of death in American hospitals — sepsis.