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Philadelphia Hospitals: Epilepsy
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 […]
Features: Centers of Excellence: Diabetes
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Critical Care
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Children
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Burns
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Brain Injury
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Bloodless Medicine and Surgery
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 […]
Pulse: Correspondence: Confessions of a Country Club Reject
May 5, 2005Mr. Larry PlattEditor, Philadelphia magazine Dear Larry: Most who get rebuffed by a prominent club are able to lick their wounds in […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Bariatric Surgery
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Balance
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
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 […]
Pulse: Affairs: Meet Ben. We Mean Bob. Er, Abe. Doug. Whatever
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 […]
Philadelphia Hospitals: Alternative Medicine
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 […]
Pulse: Affairs: The New Hamptons
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 […]
Pulse: Power: Teamster Trouble
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 […]