Health

In his last days in Iraq, Army Specialist Thomas Fitzinger’s job was to burn mounds of garbage. He says he inhaled soot and smoke, and that today his lungs are damaged.

Drexel University students are teaming up with young patients at CHOP to create animated films.

Guest: Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Joseph Cappella Vaping is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers. They are ...

Guest: Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, Joseph Cappella Vaping is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers. They are ...

Humanity's ability to stop a flu pandemic has changed little in the past century.

The problem with benzos, as they're also known, is that they're highly addictive medications, both physically and psychologically.

How an unproven diabetes treatment has a found a home in the Bronx

Diabetes costs more healthcare dollars than any other disease in the United States. But beyond the huge financial price tag — diabetes ...

Until now, any operating dispensaries have been in the suburbs.

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

Diabetes runs is Kristen Cabrera’s family. Her dad, plus seven aunts and uncles have the illness. She gathered them at home in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to talk about it.

At community outreach in Bristol Township, recovery home residents invite residents to hear how the homes work — and how important they are to those fighting addictions.

The penalty for not having health insurance in 2018 is the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of household income.

“Fentanyl has taken over from heroin as the number one drug that’s killing people in Philadelphia today,” said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.