When admitted to the $3 million, 41-bed brain injury unit at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, patients ranging in age from 16 to 86 and suffering […]
Sometimes patients, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, refuse blood transfusions for deeply held religious beliefs; sometimes they fear the potential infections from tainted blood. Whether the […]
May 5, 2005Mr. Larry PlattEditor, Philadelphia magazine Dear Larry: Most who get rebuffed by a prominent club are able to lick their wounds in […]
The National Center for Health Statistics reports that roughly 59 million adult Americans meet the criteria for obesity. When plain old dieting has failed again […]
It’s one thing to be called a dizzy blonde and quite another to suffer from a disorder that makes you genuinely off-balance. Vertigo is not […]
The life of baseball great Lou Gehrig was cut short by this aggressive and fatal degenerative disease best known by his name and affecting 30,000 […]
In March, radio station BEN-FM announced its arrival in Philadelphia with the battle cry, “Playing anything we feel like.” BEN promised fewer commercials, an absence […]
It wasn’t all that long ago that acupuncture was considered beyond the fringe. Today it’s practically mainstream, part of a huge shift in medicine to […]
Two years ago, Richard O’Such started a business that neatly summarizes what’s been happening on Long Beach Island: a seaplane service between New York City’s […]
While the revived Evening Bulletin has skewered everyone from John Street to Howard Dean, there is one sacred cow that Philly’s newest paper may come […]
In mid-April, U.S. Senator Rick Santorum proposed legislation to “modernize” the National Weather Service by limiting its ability to compete with commercial weather services. (One […]
With Hurricane Katrina sending images of American neglect around the globe, poverty has suddenly become the disease that billionaires and former presidents are vowing to […]
The always available and usually affable Ed Rendell had two chief spokespersons during his eight years as mayor. John Street, who governs out of the […]
Like any self-respecting teenage boy growing up on the Main Line, David Grasso dreamed of wailing on his guitar in front of thousands of screaming […]
Beverage writer and beer geek enthusiast Lew Bryson has started a new blog Why The PLCB Should Be Abolished. You already know why, but learn […]
