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 […]

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 […]