Health
Peggy Dolan
How a grieving mom turned her most devastating loss into a salvation for thousands of families with hospitalized children
By Autumn Demberger
Healthcare’s Failed Economic Model is Costing American Families
In anticipation of massive Medicaid cuts, a healthcare entrepreneur believes health costs can decrease if we change how we calculate wins
By Stephen Kelly
RFK Jr., AI and “Medical Experts”
The nation’s Health Secretary claims America.gov frees us from having to trust medical experts. An actual medical expert weighs in
By Paul Offit
A Cancer Diagnosis She Never Expected …
and the Philly Team That Helped Her Through It
By Fox Chase Cancer Center
What the World Doesn’t Get about Sickle Cell
Hannibal Collins lived with the unseen anemia for 37 years. It was only after his death that I discovered how little the world knows about it
By Bobbi J. Booker
Anti-Vax is Not Pro-Religion
CHOP’s esteemed immunologist steps into the debate over vaccines and religious freedom, and asks: What would Jesus do?
By Paul OffitMeasles, Same as It Ever Was?
In 1991 after the preventable disease killed children in a small Christian sect in the Northeast, Philadelphia mandated vaccinations. What to do now that anti-vaxxing has gone national?
By Victor Fiorillo
CHOP’s Gun Safety Rx
Can keeping kids safe from the number one cause of death come from candid healthcare professional-to-parent conversations — paired with free gun locks?
By Autumn Demberger
Protect Our Healers
Healthcare workers in the U.S. are five times more likely to experience violence on the job. The head of Penn Medicine and a local U.S. Representative want to change that
By Kevin B. Mahoney and Madeleine Dean
Like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park, RFK Jr. is Learning
Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services seems to have stopped pushing vitamin A to treat measles. CHOP’s renowned immunologist wonders if his reversal will come in time to save PA from an even more massive outbreak?
By Paul Offit