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In Philadelphia, it’s gun violence that makes first aid skills so necessary for ordinary residents. After the Paris bombings ...

Oberon Wackwitz has a boyish face and easy smile, he’s a sharp dresser. He’s 20 years old, and in college. With his friendly, ...

Pam Gilbert could hear things that other people couldn’t. That superpower quickly turned into a nightmare when she began to hear no ...

Why does it feel good when your sweetheart’s hand brushes your arm?  “If you were to follow the touch sensation i ...

What do horses and zebras have to do with making patient care decisions?  In the practice of medicine, one of the greatest ch ...

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It’s the same enemy, but a different kind of war. The way we’re fighting drug epidemics today looks vastly different than the ...

Four hundred years ago today, the Catholic Church tried to silence Galileo, ending a period of thriving scientific and literary deba ...

The concept of “rehab” tends to make us think of a place where drug addicts go away for weeks or months at a time to recover. ...

Cory Cohen’s slide into addiction is one that echoes all over the country. Cohen is 22 years old, grew up in the suburbs of ...

With the country in the throes of a heroin epidemic, politicians on both sides are talking about the importance of addiction treatment, a ...

Last year, the police chief of Gloucester, Massachusetts, made an unusual offer on his department’s Facebook page. Heroin addicts w ...

The science of public service announcements is tricky.  If someone offers you drugs, prevention educator John Hampton says, t ...

Why was the response to crack far harsher than today’s outreach to heroin users? During the latter part of the 1980s, Robert Stu ...

Holly Platts could have easily joined the more t ...