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Summer means hunger for nearly 1 in 4 Philadelphia kids. Health care providers can help. l Opinion

When food is scarce, kids land in the hospital with everything from stomach pain to seizures, writes a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia emergency physician and researcher.

Summer is the hungriest time in the city, because kids don't have access to school meals. Andrea Cooper of Darby gets help from the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which also works with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and others.
Summer is the hungriest time in the city, because kids don't have access to school meals. Andrea Cooper of Darby gets help from the Philadelphia Archdiocese, which also works with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and others.Read moreDavid Swanson / File Photograph
    by Danielle Cullen, For the Inquirer
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