Public Health

The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years.

Does cracking down on flavored e-cigarettes make it harder for adults trying to quit smoking?

The law includes a carve-out that lets members of the military buy tobacco when they’re 18.

Local school districts have also filed federal complaints against the e-cig giant.

This week: auditing Philadelphia City Council's effectiveness, the declining rate of childhood obesity in NJ, and extending the statute of limitations on clergy sexual abuse.

On a good day in the emergency room where we work, patients might expect to wait four or five hours, including evaluation and treatment before they are sent upstairs to a bed.

Studies are accumulating showing the teen brain, consistently plied with alcohol, won’t reach maturity and damaged genetic material may be passed on.

The 34th annual Trouble in Toyland report from the Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) highlights dangers that parents can detect, hidden toxics, and recall

Dark Waters dramatizes the true story of a former corporate lawyer who exposed the effects of toxic PFAS chemicals discharged into a creek in West Virginia.

A committee had its first hearing on a measure requiring hospitals to provide advance notice and a detailed closure plan to the city’s health department.

New Jersey will have more than $13 million to combat harmful algal blooms that plagued major recreational waterbodies last summer.

A health expert said every school in the city that has plumbing joined by lead solder should stop allowing children to use drinking fountains immediately.

The Trump administration's plan to ban most flavored vaping products has stalled out, at least for the moment.

When Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act in 2009, it gave government regulators an important new weapon in its battle against Big Tobacco.

A bill pending in the New Jersey legislature seeks to keep New Jersey on daylight saving time year-round.