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Ashley Martinez studies screenshots taken from the Instagram pages of Très Rx Beauty, a now-closed illicit med spa. Martinez experienced a life-threatening infection from dermal filler injections received there from a woman who claimed to be properly licensed and trained.

A ‘butt lift’ from an illicit Philadelphia med spa sent a woman to the hospital with a raging infection

Hollie and Michael Sylvestre hold a photograph of their son Michael on what would have been his 8th birthday on Sept. 24, 2024. Michael was 5 years old when he died. His parents described him as an old soul who loved Elvis.

Listen to the heartbreaking phone call between CHOP doctors and the parents of a boy who died: ‘We are so, so sorry’

Hollie and Michael Sylvestre spend time at their son Michael’s grave on what would have been his 8th birthday on Sept. 24 at Gilbert Memorial Park in Arizona. Their son died on June 28, 2022 at age 5 at CHOP.

Five takeaways from The Inquirer’s investigation into CHOP’s innovative lymphatic program

Wendy Ruderman

Michael Sylvestre places his son Michael’s boots on his grave on what would have been his 8th birthday on Sept. 24 at Gilbert Memorial Park in Arizona. The boy died on June 28, 2022, at age 5 at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He loved Spider-Man and wanted to be a police officer.

CHOP pioneered a lifesaving lymphatic procedure, but some kids died or suffered strokes. Risks were downplayed.

The sign at One Parkway Building, 1515 Arch Street, for the Philadelphia's Citizen's Police Oversight Commission still reads as the former Police Advisory Commission Monday, May 13, 2024, on the first day on the job for Tonya McClary, the new CPOC director.

The Citizens Police Oversight Commission was allocated $3M in taxpayer funds but has not yet investigated complaints about police

Rodrigo Torrejón

Three Main Line Health hospitals, including Riddle Hospital in Media, have gotten A ratings from the Leapfrog Group for the past four years.

How safe is your hospital? See the latest grade for each Philly-area facility in a new national report.

Sarah Gantz and Abraham Gutman

A Main Line Fertility doctor mistakenly injected trichloroacetic acid, at an 85% concentration, into the reproductive organs of a 33-year-old patient from the Philadelphia area in December 2022.

A Philly-area woman was severely burned after a Main Line Fertility doctor mistakenly injected acid into her body

Surgical objects were mistakenly left in the bodies of more than 200 Philly-area patients over six years. The error is rare, but it can be catastrophic.

Wendy Ruderman, Sarah Gantz, and Dylan Purcell

About 200 physicians from the Philadelphia area billed medical-device and pharmaceutical companies on travel to, and around, the city.

Here’s where Philly-area doctors traveled with $3 million they received from drugmakers, medical-device companies

Brian Bigler, of West Chester, told police in January 2023 that he wrote 202 prescriptions for the opioid painkiller Oxycodone that were not for legitimate medical purposes.

A West Chester eye doctor wrote 202 illegal Oxycodone prescriptions. He has given up his medical license.

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