Public Health

Minnesota’s top law enforcement official has sued two New Jersey pharmaceutical giants for “deceptive, misleading, and misrepresentative” price hikes on insulin.

The state is one of the last to move away from a 1970s standard that said someone had to be a “clear and present danger.” But the shift is controversial.

Ovarian cancer is the eighth leading cause of cancer in women, according to the World Health Organization.

Warming temperatures worsen ozone pollution. Excess carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) causes plants to grow faster and release more pollen — extending the “allergy” season.

Gov. Tom Wolf has said he will sign the bill into law.

Money will go to efforts in 14 Pa. counties.

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Many flu-related deaths are caused not by the flu itself but by secondary infections and complications.

With poverty and stress driving up high blood pressure in communities of color, will it help to cut sodium in Chinese food? Health officials say it’s a worthy effort.

A Harvard researcher is sending up red flags about a popular class of supplements, some of which contain amphetamine-like drugs.

In the past four years, about 1,000 Delawareans have died from drug overdoses, mostly as a result of opioids.

Poor health care and criminalization of sex workers feed into each other to create a cycle, says an organizer with Project SAFE Philadelphia.

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.

A three-year study will investigate to what extent autism researchers include stakeholder groups in the design phase, and whether that affects what research is done.

Unsafe levels of lead have been detected in the water supply for Bordentown in South Jersey, which supplies drinking water to about 16,000 residents.