Public Health

Cured meat is a big food trend in the U.S. right now, but the meat isn’t cooked with heat, so it takes a bit of work to keep the sa ...

Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

The Philadelphia region is about to lose a federally-funded homeless outreach program. The loss comes at a time of uncertainty for ...

I still support most of what President Trump is doing. But there is one thing on which I'm disagreeing with him. I regret voting against my own interests.

I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...

By linking the digital and infrastructure systems of the water utility with those of our urban centers, we will take a leap toward creating thriving, sustainable cities.

What is small, brown, round, and avoided by the City of Philadelphia like the plague? If you guessed bed bugs, you’d be right. Unli ...

Teepees dot the plain beside the river, totem poles mark a circular prayer site, and men in moccasins and fur caps tend the ceremonial campfire.

Few presidents have been as concerned with their legacy as Barack Obama. From writing his first memoir at age 34, to declaring ...

This rebroadcast show is all about the human body – more specifically, what happens to us after weR ...

Forty years ago this month, more than  ...

Solving the mysteries of infectious diseases requires man power, determination, and, in the case of Legionnaires' disease, pride.

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

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...