Health

and the Philly Team That Helped Her Through It​

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

CHOP’s esteemed immunologist steps into the debate over vaccines and religious freedom, and asks: What would Jesus do?

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?

Can keeping kids safe from the number one cause of death come from candid healthcare professional-to-parent conversations — paired with free gun locks?

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

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?

The Phoenixville immigration attorney founded Project Libertad 11 years ago to help advocate for and provide all-encompassing support to youth asylum seekers

In 2001, Penn started sending doctors and nurses to train sub-Saharan African healthcare workers. A quarter-century later, here’s why they’re still at it

After her daughter Elora was diagnosed with an incurable, cancerous brain tumor, the Villanova mom made it her mission to accelerate research, funding, and life-saving treatment.