When can retrieving a pair of pink plastic Polly Pocket shoes cost more than the priciest Manolo Blahnik pumps? When the U.S. medical industrial complex steps in.

The protracted delay in treating her underlying illness, Gail Multop discovered, had profound and lasting consequences. She likened the effect to “a bomb going off in my life.”

Philadelphia City Council advances a bill that would restrict sales of flavored e-cigarettes.

Head and neck injuries rose sharply with the advent of smartphones, researchers found.

When I stopped wrestling with my patient Jim over achieving his health metrics, something surprising happened.

Rising prices for health insurance and services are driving up overall health spending, even as the amount of care Americans use remains steady.

In the U.S., there were 1,261 cases as of Nov. 7, a 240% increase over all of 2018, according to CDC figures.

Philadelphia launches 'urban forest' plan, a 10-year strategy to grow the city's tree canopy as part an effort to address climate change and the heat island effect that makes some parts of urban areas hotter than others.

Studies of hair dye and cancer have produced conflicting results. A new analysis finds a link.

Should you take away the phone? Dementia makes people more vulnerable to scammers.

Tumors shed lots of telltale DNA into the blood -- when the cancer is advanced.

New federal regulations say that using too many public benefits could keep foreign-born parents from permanent residency and a path to citizenship.

One in four caregivers are between the ages of 22 and 37, but they deal with student debt, social isolation and professional consequences more than older caregivers.