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The idea could shorten waitlists, but violates a long-held taboo.    After a routine check-up in August 2004, Sal ...

Fainting at the sight of a needle or blood is so common that Sharon Burke, a registered emergency nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Ho ...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin recently wrote “We did a lot of crazy things that seemed crazy at the time. Many of thos ...

Imagine looking at amazing space simulations all day long, on a massive computer. Stars exploding, galaxies forming, crashing together. A ...

We’ve all heard how sitting is poison.  Recent research has linked it with heart problems, diabetes and even increased cancer ...

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

Events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston, and elsewhere have put our policing and sentencing guidelines into question.   Wha ...

Pennsylvania’s attorney general is fighting for her political life. Kathleen Kane was arraigned Saturday on charges includin ...

Installing the guts of a computer into a beehive has its challenges. On a makeshift workbench tucked into the far right corner of ...

Corporate sponsorship of illness awareness can be a powerful tool to raise money. But if the brand and the cause don’t allign, the ...

The frontman of a Philly punk band channels his rage over breast cancer marketing and turns it into art. Pinkwash is a Philadelphi ...

An organization stages mock battles in hopes of helping freelance journalists, who put themselves in harm’s way, learn to save thei ...

Can you imagine your life without access to a refrigerator? How about having an ice box at home that needs to be replenished? Mayb ...

Twenty-four years ago, in late July, Joyce David was running out of patience. The commonwealth’s budget was five weeks late, ...

Haverford College has only around 1,200 students.  Yet it boasts over a dozen alumni ...