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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 ...

Since October, plumbers with United Association Local 370 in Flint have been volunteering to install filters and faucets to remove lead f ...

For 10 years, John Fetterman has been mayor of one of the country’s poorest cities — Braddock, Pennsylvania. In that time, Fetter ...

Residents of parts of Horsham, Montgomery County, and Warminster in Bucks County who have been long concerned about tainted water wells i ...

Amid renewed nationwide attention on the criminal justice and incarceration rehabilitation systems, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf has signed ...

When children get sick at school, it can be a big disruption. For the kids – they have to miss class – and for mom or dad, they have ...

Human trafficking in the United States is common, and it is often hidden in plain sight. “This is happening all around us, ...

In Philadelphia, it’s gun violence that makes first aid skills so necessary for ordinary residents. After the Paris bombings ...

Oberon Wackwitz has a boyish face and easy smile, he’s a sharp dresser. He’s 20 years old, and in college. With his friendly, ...