Health

The president of Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha challenges local partners to join their efforts to address escalating depression and anxiety in Philly’s marginalized neighborhoods

Founded by women, Philly-based Black Men Heal is helping to address the emotional pain of African American men around the country

Over 100,000 Americans suffer from sickle cell disease, most of them African American. A local state rep urges federal health authorities to do more to help

The Citizen’s co-founder seeks to answer that question by bringing together 20 local leaders to solve one of Philly’s most pressing issues: Health disparity

Black women made up 43 percent of births in Philly but 73 percent of pregnancy-related deaths from 2013 to 2018. We must, the Science Center’s CEO urges, commit more resources in maternal health — and the leaders close to the cause

Will the pandemic be a wake-up call about the weaknesses in emergency care? Or will it be a death blow? The answer is in what we do next. 

Since 2014, Food Connect has tackled rampant food waste and hunger by solving the problem of logistics: connecting people in need of food with people who have excess

The mother-daughter duo’s own experience with “period poverty” inspired their Germantown nonprofit No More Secrets, which has distributed over 4 million menstrual products to women experiencing “period poverty” in the last year. 

A collaboration between CHOP, Girard College and The Independence Blue Cross Foundation is meeting children in mental distress where they are most comfortable: school. Could this be a model for these overwhelming times?

The Health Department is claiming an adult vax rate of “greater than 95 percent.” The verifiable figure? Not quite so high.