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Imagine a kind of amnesia wherein everybody forgets about you (Amnesia inversa). Imagine a disease that causes you to contract the infirm ...

After the big announcement that this year’s flu vaccine may offer less protection than expected, some doctors are scrambling for th ...

Every few months, typically Friday nights around 6 p.m., nurse Deane Kirchner throws what she calls a drug party. Except, she says ...

The death of Joyce Craig-Lewis, as the first female Philadelphia firefighter killed in the line of duty, could spark old questions about ...

Pension obligations in the state of Pennsylvania are increasing and becoming a larger part of the state budget. Eric Boehme of&nbs ...

Two years after the storm, a look at where the money went and what lessons we can learn.  The Jersey Shore was still reeling ...

Philabundance Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Philabundance has just made it to 30 years of service and i ...

As Philadelphia takes aim at bedbugs, skin-crawling testimony at a hearing this week resulted in City Councilman Mark Squilla vowing to f ...

When a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug with a sticker price of more than $300,000 per year hit the market two years ago, the cost raise ...

WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, capping off a yea ...

Pretty much everyone is familiar with ecology, but it’s a broad term and it covers a lot of territory.   For our segmen ...

The tale of a high-stakes medical device competition inspired by a sci-fi classic and a local team boldly going into the finals. I ...

New treatments for a stigmatized group of patients emerge. Berta Britz hid the voices she’s heard for a long time, spending ...

Slosh a little salty water into your nose, and it’s like a satisfying kick in the sinuses. For some people, nasal irrigation ...

Everyone itches, and when we scratch, the itch always seems to come back even stronger. But why?  Dr. Bethany Brookshire, a s ...