Health Care

On a recent Thursday morning, I walked into a North Philly Rite Aid on what should have been an easy mission: I needed Narcan.

In his last days in Iraq, Army Specialist Thomas Fitzinger’s job was to burn mounds of garbage. He says he inhaled soot and smoke, and that today his lungs are damaged.

Scientists are learning from farmers and traditional healers — and documenting what powers their success.

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

The penalty for not having health insurance in 2018 is the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of household income.

Among black men in Philadelphia who’ve suffered traumatic injuries, most psychological symptoms are not treated.

Soon, medical marijuana patients in Pennsylvania won’t just be limited to taking oils, pills, and liquid forms of the drug.

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

Acquisition of Einstein would give Jefferson a network of 18 Philadelphia-area hospitals worth $6 billion.

Guests: Anupam Jena, Jonathan Reisman The staggering rise of opioid-related deaths in America has reached critica ...

Measure under consideration by state lawmakers also calls for including chronic pain as qualifying condition.

Sherry Alvarez says she knew there was something different about her son since he was about 9 months old

Opera Philadelphia announces its 2018-2019 season, including the world premiere of an opera about Alzheimer's disease.

“Folks are coming with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, with anxiety."