Health & Wellness

When you are feeling so sick that you can't make it to work, you __________ sick.

A drug that can reverse a heroin overdose is closer to being in the hands of Ocean County police officers, but law enforcement won't be the only ones with access to it.

Your kids may want to spread out before their next cell phone photo shoot. Health experts are finding a connection between "selfies" and head lice.

Promotion of sugary snacks and beverages would no longer be permitted in schools under guidelines unveiled by first lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday.

Most of the time, exposure to influenza is most dangerous for older individuals, but this year just the opposite seems to be true.

With the problem of prescription painkiller abuse continuing to get worse, New Jersey officials are adding new high-tech safeguards to prescription blanks used by doctors, so they can't be copied or forged.

The state Assembly Tourism and Gaming Committee is expected to consider a bill Thursday that would prohibit smoking in popular outdoor locales.

Heroin use is on the rise in the Garden State, and the apparent overdose and death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has brought the issue into the spotlight once again.

Federal health experts are taking a second look this week at the heart safety of pain medications used by millions of Americans to treat arthritis and other everyday aches and pains.

You can go online and shop for discounted cars and hotels, so why not do the same thing if you need an operation? A company called MediBid is allowing patients to do just that.