Public Health

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

Herman Parodi threw himself on the floor, calling on the Council to appropriate more money.

"We are just above Russia, Kuwait and Bosnia."

Still reeling after lasts year’s storm season, women in the town of Mariana, Puerto Rico, spend time together and prepare meals for others to ease depression.

Guest: Scott Stern The United States government incarcerated tens of thousands of “promiscuous” women in the ...

Officials say sewage overflow contaminated a New Jersey beach's water with unsafe levels of bacteria, forcing its closure.

Though addressing violence and its resulting trauma was at the heart of the project, some people remembered loved who passed away without violence.

Guests: Jim Saksa, Sarah Clark Stuart, Erick Guerra   34-year-old Pablo Avendano, a bike courier, was riding in ...

Emergency medicine doctor Emmy Betz wanted to get more comfortable with guns. Pistol instructor and family physician Michael Victoroff had a proposal for her.

The latest immigration battle between the federal government and cities like Philadelphia: public assistance programs, such as food stamps and Medicaid.