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When things are a mess, one of the worst reactions is to do nothing but complain. (Columnists are exempt from this.) I’ve often wondered, as […]

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Trips That Will Change Your Life

Here are four vacation getaways that will give back long after the tan fades Ahhh … vacation. Time to get away, to relax, to focus […]

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Top Hospitals: Women’s Health

Ranked 17th in the country for gynecology by U.S. News & World Report, Penn Ob/Gyn Care is a comprehensive program for women with a full […]

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Top Hospitals: Eating Disorders

The Eating Disorders Program at Belmont Behavioral Health, a psychiatric division of Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, maintains an inpatient unit and a partial hospitalization program […]

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Top Hospitals: Sex Abuse

As sex abuse has begun to move out of the shadows and into the open, the work of the 55-year-old Joseph J. Peters Institute has […]

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Top Hospitals: Multiple Sclerosis

In this disease, the primary cause of disability among young adults aside from traumatic injury, the body’s immune system damages areas of the brain and […]

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Top Hospitals: Eyes

For more than a century, Wills Eye, ranked third in the country for ophthalmology by U.S. News & World Report in 2007, has been helping […]

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Top Hospitals: Addiction

The largest hospital in Pennsylvania exclusively for the treatment of addiction and complex secondary mental and medical disorders, Eagleville Hospital is a 45-acre private nonprofit […]

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Top Hospitals: Cancer

Some community hospitals in our region, including Abington, Bryn Mawr and Paoli, have devoted considerable resources to delivering cancer care, and do a very good […]

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Top Hospitals: Aging

Given that Pennsylvania is second only to Florida in the size of its geriatric population, it’s not surprising that many hospitals are carving out centers […]

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Pulse: Style: Knit Wit

LoopThe Look: Craig Rosenfeld, owner of Loop, a Graduate ­Hospital-area yarn shop, insists that guys can pull off knitwear. Just start small: Top a coat […]

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Top Hospitals: Wound Care

Not all that long ago, there weren’t many options for patients with chronic wounds that wouldn’t heal, whether because of diabetes, blood or circulation disorders, […]

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Top Hospitals: Voice

It’s not just singers and actors who abuse their voices. Any of us can wake up one day and have difficulty speaking. Penn Center for […]

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Top Hospitals: Spinal Cord Injury

Dedicated to proving that life doesn’t end when a fall from a horse or a dive into a shallow pool causes paralysis, the Regional Spinal […]

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Top Hospitals: Trauma

When the SUV carrying New Jersey Governor Corzine smashed into a guardrail a year ago crushing 15 bones and pushing his femur through his pant […]