Patient Files

Gina Albater dreamed of singing professionally for most of her life. “[In high school], I had a karaoke machine,” she ...

How one teenager encourages her grandmother to make healthier lifestyle choices in light of a chronic disease. Alyse Nichols is so ...

The date was July 15, 2012. It’s the date that John “Plex” Dooling remembers as the day he died. “For seve ...

Between November and June, Delaware experienced 124 suspected overdose deaths claiming victims from 17 to 87. That’s compared with ...

The shattering news came, as it does for many women, after Susan Chase had a routine mammogram. When she got a phone message reque ...

Eugene Tatom Sr. of Philadelphia was 22 years old, and almost done serving in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps, when he steppe ...

What do you get when you mix contractions, a snow storm, and stomach virus? A Philly couple found out. It had been a hectic few w ...

Iron.  Your body needs it to carry oxygen throughout the body in red blood cells. But too much of it can be toxic. Craig Hooper, ...

How one man uses technology as a tool to capture important memories. Twenty-nine year old Thomas Dixon has had a cell phone since ...

Twenty-two states have made medical marijuana available to patients.  It’s legal in New Jersey and Delaware.  In Pennsylvania, th ...

In this week’s Patient Files, Michael Downing tells us about his harrowing set of medical encounters related to hypertrophic cardio ...

In this week’s Patient Files, epilepsy advocate Dan Dougherty talks about the need for a light heart when dealing with a heavy diag ...

Philadelphia musician and recording store owner Brian McTear talks about ‘chasing life expectancy’ with cystic fibrosis. ...

Imagine spending your whole life, from childhood, fighting temptation inside what one might describe as the belly of the beast. Im ...