Public Health

State governments are thinking about how to treat pain other than opioids.

Police are still testing samples to see which drugs have made dozens of prison staff sick, but synthetic cannabinoids are the most likely culprit.

When a facility goes into lockdown, it usually means the few freedoms inmates have go away.

The public should be mindful — but health concerns are minimal.

Christiana Care has cut opioid prescribing by as much as half in some departments by adopting guidelines and best practices for post-surgical recovery.

Demonstrators press city officials to move on supervised injection site to decrease overdose death toll.

It’s been 77 years since Delaware had a confirmed human death from rabies; the second in the United States this year.

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

Aqua has taken two wells offline due to elevated levels of potentially harmful chemicals.

School vaccination laws took a long time to take root. Today, every state has one. Here’s how that happened.

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

Medical waste has once again washed ashore on some New Jersey beaches. 

The Natural Cycles app instructs women to take their temperature at the same time every morning when they awake and record it in the app.

Three New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories Tuesday due to elevated bacteria counts. 

Inmates at prisons across the U.S. are expected to stage a two-week strike beginning Tuesday to demand better living conditions and prison reform.