Public Health

A bill requiring all Philly rental units built before 1978 to be free of lead was up for a final vote — until it’s sponsor suddenly pulled it from the agenda.

The FDA tested 91 meat, dairy, grain, and produce samples, and found PFAS in 10 of them.

Efforts to limit opioid prescriptions are leading some patients to use more dangerous drugs.

Around 50 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.

The poll comes as several states have pushed to limit abortions in hopes of getting the Supreme Court to reconsider the issue.

It’s the latest salvo in the ongoing fight against the opioid crisis in New Jersey, which saw more than 3,100 drug-overdose deaths last year.

Vaccines worry a lot of parents. Pediatricians understand that, but they worry we’ve forgotten just how sick kids can get without the shots.

We discuss PFAS, compounds used in cookware, carpeting and upholstery, food wrappers, and firefighting foam, the health risks they pose and the challenges regulating them.

Farmers have been using this chemical, often under the trade name Roundup, for about four decades now. But now it's under fierce attack, accused of causing cancer.

Missouri is within days of losing its last remaining health center that provides abortions. Unless a court intervenes, it will become the first state without such a clinic.

Children spend a lot of time on screens, which worries many parents. We discuss the effects of screens on kids' mental, physical, emotional, and social health

Infants' Tylenol comes with a dosing syringe, while Children's Tylenol has a plastic cup. Both contain the same concentration of the active ingredient, acetaminophen.

The FDA sent a letter to the food industry on Thursday, urging companies to standardize the use of the phrase "best if used by" on packaged food labels.

A plan to create a supervised injection site in Philadelphia is faces fierce opposition from neighbors in Kensington, ground zero of the city's opioid epidemic.

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.