Elana Gordon

St. Joseph’s Hospital, part of North Philadelphia Health System, is closing. The hospital, founded more than 100 years ago a ...

Requests for emergency food assistance increased 7 percent in Philadelphia this past year. That’s according to ...

What if examining the ways bees cooperate or how bacteria protects our guts could help us understand the dynamics of large forests and ev ...

How will climate change affect the Delaware watershed and the region’s water supply? That’s the “elephant in the atmosp ...

What do maggots and George Washington have in common? It was hard to fit everything we learned about dentistry into The Pulse̵ ...

The family of the late Dr. Baruch Blumberg has donated several dozen of his personal journals to the American Philosophical Society in Ph ...

As flu season is about kicks in to full gear, hospitals have been stepping up efforts to vaccinate their workers. But federal data shows ...

Ever wonder why dentistry operates separately from other fields of medicine? What goes on inside a person’s mouth—the bact ...

Navin Vij was delivered by C-section on June 22, 1983. At 27 weeks, he was a micro-preemie, staying in the intensive care unit for a coup ...

Tiers are a growing trend in health insurance plans. It’s different from making hospitals “in network” or “o ...

As the region and country wrestle with a growing heroin epidemic, a new report finds that overdose deaths among young adults, especially ...

The start of flu season means lots of ads and public health reminders about the importance of getting a flu shot. Manufacturers are makin ...