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Pulse: Q&A: Gray’s Goodbye

Even after the Reverend Bill Gray abruptly retired from Congress in 1991 to head the United Negro College Fund, the city’s godfather of African-American politics […]

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Party of Five

Who says kids and modern design can’t play nice? This Radnor family’s answer Ever wander around your go-to shopping haunt and wish you could just […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Orthopedics

With the advent of space-age ways to replace joints, resurface hips, implant artificial discs and re-attach severed limbs, orthopedics has become a major profit center […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a weakening bone condition that afflicts 52 million men and women over 50, often leading to hip fractures. But it can also strike […]

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Julius Erving Doesn’t Want to Be a Hero Anymore

A tap on my passenger window. Huh? Wha? Oh. Julius. I pop my seat upright — I’ve dozed off, waiting for outside the Airport Marriott. […]

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Alfresco In Philadelphia

Photo by K. Ciappa for GPTMC From neighborhood watering holes to the realm of the beautiful people. Tis the season to dine outside and The […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Neurology

The life-saving and life-changing advances in neurology and neurosurgery frequently resemble science fiction. Imagine a tiny camera threaded through a patient’s nose guiding surgeons in […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Mental Health

Feeling jumpy and anxious, oppressively sad, panicked and fearful? Do you break out in a cold sweat in social situations? When these symptoms go beyond […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Maternal/Fetal Care

More than a dozen obstetrical units in area hospitals have closed in the recent past, so the ones who’ve opted to stay in the baby […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Lupus

Since its establishment in 1992 under Raphael DeHoratius, a world-recognized expert in this incurable autoimmune disease that typically attacks females 20 to 40 years old, […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Lungs

Chronic lung disease is the nation’s fourth leading cause of death, according to the American Lung Association, and every aspect of it gets treated at […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Kidney Disease

Expertise in chronic and hereditary kidney diseases, kidney stones, hard-to-control high blood pressure, research and kidney/pancreas transplants earned two local hospitals mention by U.S. News […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Hemophilia and Blood Disorders

Advances in the treatment of inherited blood and clotting disorders have greatly reduced the fear of dying from something as ordinary as a cut finger […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Heart

Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in America. Like any complicated mechanical device, the heart is prone to all kinds of malfunctions and a […]

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Philadelphia Hospitals: Headache

Anyone plagued by recurrent headaches eventually becomes desperate to find out what causes them and how to make them disappear. That’s what drives patients to […]