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Guests: Zeke Emanuel, Jonathan Cohn President Trump is getting increasingly frustrated with his party’s inabili ...

Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio, ...

Philadelphia is starting a new push to improve the health of impoverished children.  For now — it will rely on reshuffling existing re ...

When schools and offices take vacation — people do too — blood donations slow down, leaving hospitals and blood banks to hustle for b ...

Work to clean up the notorious heroin encampment at the Conrail tracks in Kensington has encountered a delay. Conrail workers were ...

Health issues and energy costs soar when the temperatures rise. It’s a hot day in June when I visit Ledean Durant’s ...

E-cigarette users report feeling less dependent and addicted than traditional smokers do, according to a recent study. Even so, researche ...

How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...

Philadelphia is trying to get the word out about the plan to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in West Kensington plagued by the opio ...

The construction boom in the so-called “river wards,” once Philadelphia’s industrial hub, has unleashed a “lurkin ...

Philadelphia officials say they have finally reached a plan with Conrail to remove and clean up a haven for heroin users on the company ...