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Philadelphia is a city of evolving neighborhoods.  What some of those sections evolved from is the topic taken up in “R ...

What is it that makes us…us? DNA or life experience? Genes or environment?   Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein sh ...

Rob Jefferson started losing his hearing when he was in his late teens. Sensorineural hearing loss, a progressive degenerative con ...

“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” Then-presidential candidate Barack Ob ...

Produced by Michael O’Reilly In 2014, the book ...

The British Medical Journal lists more than 40 physicians who became notable authors. They include Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Conan Doy ...

Reforming the United States criminal justice system is the rare topic that enjoys bipartisan support. However, there is a wide range of i ...

Did a religious epiphany save Terry Sukeena’s life? When he was 46 years old, Terry Sukeena had the first major health scare ...

Dementia has been slowly stealing Ruth Perez’s memory and thinking ability for 20 years. “She would put food together ...

With Obamacare battles largely behind us, presidential candidates in 2016 seem focused on other issues. Healthcare played starring ...

The National Institute of Mental Health is searching for a new director who will inherit a battle over how we think about afflictions of ...

When the late U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat six years ago, former Congressman Joe Se ...

A few weeks ago, we heard from listeners whose curiosity and appetite were piqued by a story we aired about limited seed availability for ...

No need to wait until March 17 to wear green ribbons and shamrocks. The Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade kicks off Sunday, Mar ...

Produced by Karen Smyles Astral Artists was founded in 1992 by Vera Wilson and is a non-profit organization that pl ...