Health Care

The New Jersey Legislature is considering creating a confidential registry of newborns diagnosed with sickle cell trait.

'Having everyone, as many people in insurance as possible, makes it more affordable for everyone,' bill sponsor says.

The free clinic, in its fourth month, is packed into a side room of Henrietta Johnson Medical Center on New Castle Road.

Scientists have found a correlation between medical students engaging in the arts and humanities and showing qualities of openness, wisdom and empathy.

Noonan, who will begin her role next month, is a lawyer who has worked with the Camden Coalition as a consultant through PolicyLab, a research arm of CHOP.

Facing terminal cancer, an undocumented immigrant must decide if access to life-extending medicine is worth the increased risk of deportation.

If a national version of this bill is approved, terminally ill patients could try experimental treatments that have completed some testing but don’t yet have FDA approval.

The new company will be "free from profit-making incentives and constraints" as it tries to find ways to cut costs and boost satisfaction.

The measure bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy — with exceptions for cases of rape or incest or when continuing the pregnancy would put a woman’s life at risk.

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Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.

Gov. John Carney and state legislators announced a bill Tuesday that would offer 12 weeks paid maternity or paternity leave to full-time state employees.

2017 came and went, and with it hope that Congress would come to the aid of millions of kids in Delaware and all across the country depending on them for their health care.

Dogged by the specter of a disorder that feels like genetic destiny, a woman challenges her body and mind to do new things.