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Medical Illustrator Birck Cox at work in his basement studio in Mt. Airy. (Todd Vachon/WHYY)
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Inside the world of medical illustration with Mt. Airy artist Birck Cox

We visit a medical illustrator’s studio, where boxes of bones, skulls and anatomy textbooks come to life through paint strokes and ...

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The woman behind Delaware’s changing Medicare law

How one woman played a key role in changing Delaware law to offer supplemental Medigap premiums to people with disabilities under the age ...

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The Supreme Court decided to invalidate patents on human genes in June 2013. (Douglas C. Pizac/AP Images)
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The year’s most inspirational science stories: Myriad genetics ruling, CRISPR and brain funding

Kerry Grens, an associate editor at The Scientist, joins The Pulse regularly for updates on the latest developments in science. Th ...

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Reporter’s Roundtable: Following up on Act 13 ruling, and the charter school verdict that wasn’t

NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller speaks with State Impact Pennsylvania’s Katie Colaneri for more details on yesterday’s ...

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Philadelphia AIDS survivor Suellen Kehler holds some of the more than 20 medications and supplements she takes each day to keep her HIV infection under control.
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By the numbers: HIV/AIDS stigma changing, but infection still spreads

Much headway has been made in HIV treatment, with far fewer AIDS deaths today than 20 years ago, when the film “Philadelphia” ...

13 years ago

Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett and Denzel Washington as Joe Miller in the 1993 film 'Philadelphia.' Suellen Kehler
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Two decades ago, Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ prompted changing attitudes toward HIV-AIDS

An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...

13 years ago

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Are the health benefits of a gluten-free diet fact or fad?

Dr. Stephanie Moleski, a gasteroenterologist at Jefferson Hospital, gives her take on gluten sensitivity.  As a gasteroentero ...

13 years ago

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Exotic Mushrooms

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski This month Art of Food takes a trip outside the city to visit ...

13 years ago

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New South Broad tower is one of only a few recent skyscrapers

Liberty Place’s completion in 1987 broke a longstanding gentleman’s agreement to cap the height of new construction at 548 fe ...

13 years ago

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Going gluten-free is bad enough; try explaining it to your Italian grandma

In this Patient File, Valerie DiMambro talks about the year she got divorced, found bed bugs and got diagnosed with celiac disease. < ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

Gosnell trial helped fuel legislative backlash against abortion

West Philadelphia Doctor Kermit Gosnell’s conviction on distributing pain killers resulted in a 30 year long term to run concurrent ...

13 years ago

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What’s eating our evergreen trees?

Local evergreens have a tiny enemy in the wild, and researchers are enlisting citizen scientists to battle the bugs. The balsam fi ...

13 years ago

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The Pulse

How did birth move from the home to the hospital, and back again?

Margaret Marsh, professor of history at Rutgers University takes us through the timeline of home birth.      ...

13 years ago

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NewsWorks Tonight

Gallup: Polls show Democrats have the edge in favorability ratings

Now that the dust is settling a bit over the government shutdown and the healthcare exchanges, we touch base with Frank Newport, editor i ...

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Dave Mozeleski waves at the camera after undergoing a major sinus procedure at Chestnut Hill Hospital in 2010. (Photo courtesy of Jennefer Mozeleski)
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‘Fine’ is a matter of definition. Do surgeons downplay recovery times?

“How long until I feel normal again?” In this week’s “Pain in the Neck” segment, we attempt to interpret do ...

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