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More than usual this year, tax season is likely to pack an unpleasant punch. It’s the first time under the Affordable Care Act that ...
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Tylenol maker pleads guilty in case over metal particles in children’s medicine
Pleading guilty to a criminal misdemeanor, the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary that makes children’s Tylenol has agreed to pay $25 ...
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Why do some girls and women decide to starve themselves? The typical culprits are thought to include low self-esteem and a society that t ...
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ListenWolf sketches out plan for dismantling Corbett’s Healthy PA
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has released a rough outline of how the state will pick apart his predecessor’s alternative plan for Med ...
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Common antidepressant might also repair the heart, Temple researchers find
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Drexel researchers track ‘cyber fingerprints’ to identify programmers
The Internet is a realm of anonymity. But even the most careful programmers — including many cybercriminals — have discernibl ...
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Seventh-graders mix history, literature in study of Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic
More than two centuries ago, an outbreak of yellow fever hit Philadelphia — then the largest city in the fledgling United States — an ...
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ListenGene therapy’s potential pricing problem
It’s taken more than three decades of trial and error to get it right, but gene therapy is nearly ready for prime time. The first a ...
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ListenPenn-led bioethics panel calls American Ebola quarantines too restrictive
The bioethics advisory panel for President Obama has come out against the 21-day quarantines of those exposed to Ebola that New Jersey an ...
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Most health information web pages are tracked, Penn study finds
Is that nagging cough just a remnant of a cold or an early sign of lung cancer? If you’ve looked for answers online, you’re n ...
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