Medicine

Hour 1 Guests: David Grande, Robert Field The Affordable Care Act, what’s popula ...

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Guests:  John Chovanes, Ron Fournier and Heather Hurlburt As the detai ...

Guests: Harald Schmidt, David Asch Smokers need not apply to the University of Pennsylvania Health System startin ...

Like all civil rights movements, the intellectual disabilities rights movement is a work in progress. The emotional struggle that began ...

Forty years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States. The ...

Last month, JAY LASSITER of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, ...

[REBROADCAST] Recently Colorado and Washington voters passed ballot initiatives in support of the use of legal recreatio ...

[REBROADCAST] Avian flu. Ebola. SARS. AIDS. All of us have been exposed, at least in the media, to diseases that have mi ...

This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity h ...

In an effort to provide thoughtful perspective on the tragic shootings that killed 20 children aged 6-7 and 6 educators at Sandy Hook E ...

Among the many changes in American families over the past few decades is the increasing number of parents who are having children later i ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a recommendation recently to increase teen access to emergency contraception. In a new p ...

Doctors are increasingly turning to genetic testing to track down diseases, uncover a patient’s risk and better target treatments. Ever ...

BETH ANN SWAN is dean and profe ...