Public Health

Gov. Chris Christie is detailing his plan to shift $200 million from New Jersey’s budget for new initiatives to combat the opioid c ...

Across the country, alcohol use — and misuse — have gone up among older adults, researchers say. The new study in JAMA Psychia ...

There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence ...

The City of Philadelphia is holding several free ...

President Donald Trump campaigned on lifting the United States from the depths of the opioid epidemic. Amid criticism that his adm ...

A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania says one of the big narratives explaining the onset of  the opioid crisis is wrong.&n ...

Deborah Fuller is nervous. The Camden County, New Jersey, resident is going before Congress next week to testify at a hearing on the role ...

The Trump Administration is drastically reducing funding for Affordable Care Act outreach. The budget for the navigator program ...

Nearly 400 schools reported finding lead in at least one drinking-water outlet in their buildings, according to data compiled by the stat ...

Medical students learn trans care in the classroom and the exam room. Bianca Leigh is playing a character named Tia Lopez. ...

Obesity has been on the rise across the country for more than 20 years, and Pennsylvania’s rates have followed suit. Thirty ...

More than 300 people wearing black walked through the streets of Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood Thursday night, past some ...

A Department of Health report out this week has shown that only 28 percent of Pennsylvania children undergo recommended lead testing. ...

The water and lead crisis in Flint Michigan and parts of Pennsylvania has shone a national spotlight on he problem of childhood lead expo ...

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is attempting to restore mussel populations and improve water quality in Delaware. Adorne ...