Without Roy Ayers, the vibraphone might be about as cool as the flügelhorn. In the 1970s, Ayers brought the vibes onto the radio with soulful […]
DVDs Captain Janks Phoney Calls Whenever history is made, Captain Janks is there to say something completely inappropriate. For 16 years, the North Wales resident […]
Remember when HMOs were going to control the spiraling cost of health care? It didn’t work. Health insurance premiums have nearly doubled since 2000, and […]
When the Borgata opened two years ago, it proclaimed itself “your happy place.” But Atlantic City’s original happy place was and continues to be a […]
MY ARCHITECT? LOUIS KAHN, OF COURSE If you always wanted to own a building designed by Philly’s Louis Kahn — but the National Assembly in […]
The camera pans down slowly, soaking up every inch of the buxom, bikini’d blonde, lingering on her hips as she teasingly tugs her bottoms low […]
We didn’t mind for the first couple years of the century. After all, in the heady days of Y2K, with all its tantalizing possibilities, we […]
You’ve got to hand it to internationally known docs A. Lee Osterman and Randall Culp, who pioneered hand surgery in Philadelphia and continue to develop […]
We don’t usually think much about what happens to our food after we take a bite. But its complicated journey through the esophagus, stomach, liver, […]
In 1998, the formerly unaffiliated School for Podiatric Medicine merged with Temple University to create the Foot and Ankle Institute, a respected institution whose clinic […]
No other hospital in Philadelphia comes close to the volume of epilepsy surgery performed at the Jefferson Comprehensive Epilepsy Center under the supervision of Michael […]
Some 21 million Americans have diabetes, an autoimmune disease caused by the inability of the pancreas to produce or regulate insulin. While progress has been […]
Seven years ago, Cooper Hospital recruited Joseph Parrillo, the doctor who created the first critical-care medicine department for NIH and the author of more than […]
It’s no small feat to consistently be named the best children’s hospital in the nation, but the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia repeatedly pulls down that […]
Anybody whose ever been scalded in a kitchen accident knows the searing pain of a burn. Imagine the agony of being rushed to the Nathan […]
