Public Health

Philly is experiencing a weeklong heat wave with temperatures reaching above 90 degrees through Friday.

It follows similar bans recently passed in Arizona and Michigan.

Public sector unions react to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that ...

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

In Pa., legislation passed the state House of Representatives earlier this month that would make it easier for people with intellectual disabilities to testify in court.

Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.

Though funding for lead testing has gone away, the problem hasn't.

All hands will be needed on deck to stem the overdose crisis that is claiming as many lives a year as were lost in the entire Vietnam War, one lawmaker says.

A free program at the Children's Health Center in Reading, Pa. provides resources and social support to new parents in recovery from addiction.

Using big data, research shows water impacts near well sites is rare.

The World Health Organization says compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition

A Pennsylvania Senate bill advancing in the state legislature would require insurance companies to reimburse EMS for calls that don't end in a hospital trip.

A Pennsylvania Senate committee has kicked forward a bill that would make it illegal to abort a fetus because of a Down syndrome diagnosis.

The research showed that with each additional ACE that a parent experienced, a child had 17 percent higher odds of having been diagnosed with asthma.

In 2016, one in 10 babies in the U.S. were born before 37 weeks of pregnancy. Worldwide, preterm birth complications are the leading cause of death for children under 5