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Calvin and Nicole Dickey pose for a portrait in Tampa with a photo of their son, Calvin "CJ" Dickey, who died two days after his first day of football practice at Bucknell University this summer.

Their son died after his first day of football practice at Bucknell. They want answers.

CJ Dickey was an 18-year-old athlete, seemingly in his prime, with sickle cell trait.

Catriona Harrop, senior vice president of Jefferson Medical Group, right, talks to Tommy Brown, a central scheduling representative, during a demonstration of the new virtual checkout program at Jefferson's new Honickman Center.

Virtual checkout at Jefferson’s Honickman Center lets patients skip the line

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle A. Henry last month.

Health & Pharma

Pa., N.J. join settlement with generic drug firms accused of price-fixing. Consumers may be eligible for refunds.

Rutgers University has received a large federal grant to apply medical research to patient care.

Rutgers has received $47.5 million to apply scientific discoveries to patient care

State Sen. Amanda Cappelletti, with her daughter at home in Montgomery County Sunday, was the first state senator to give birth while in office. About a week ago, she had an abortion to prevent complications from allowing her nonviable pregnancy to end on its own. She wants people to consider the right to such access as they vote in Tuesday's election.

She was the first Pa. state senator to give birth while in office. Now she is grieving a pregnancy loss.

Gillian McGoldrick

This photo provided by Moderna in August 2024 shows packaging and syringes for the company's updated COVID vaccine for ages 12 and older. Philadelphia health officials are encouraging residents to get vaccinated with one of three updated COVID vaccines this fall.

Some federal funding for COVID vaccines has been cut, but you can still get a free vaccine in Philly

Health officials here say they hope to encourage more residents to get vaccinated ahead of the winter “sick season.”

Federal program offering free COVID tests is now open

In late September, Americans can order free COVID-19 tests for their household. Here's how it works.

Alexandra Pompan, a customer service associate, gets vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dr. Philip Maceno, pharmacy manager at Walgreens, on Monday, October 23, 2023.

FDA approves new COVID vaccines for fall

A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine 2023-2024 formula of Comirnaty made by Pfizer and BioNTech was available at Walgreens in Woodbury, N.J., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. The CDC recently declared COVID endemic.

COVID is now endemic, the CDC says. What does that mean for Philly?

Alexandra Pompan, a customer service associate, gets vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dr. Philip Maceno, pharmacy manager at Walgreens, on Monday, October 23, 2023.

FDA approves new COVID vaccines for fall

A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine 2023-2024 formula of Comirnaty made by Pfizer and BioNTech was available at Walgreens in Woodbury, N.J., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. The CDC recently declared COVID endemic.

COVID is now endemic, the CDC says. What does that mean for Philly?

Expert Opinions

Philly hospitals test new strategy for ‘tranq dope’ withdrawal – and it keeps patients from walking out before their treatment is done

Traditional withdrawal treatments don't work for the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which is everywhere in Phlly's drug supply. Here's what does.

Kory London, The Conversation

Fighting xylazine withdrawal can be easier if some unusual steps are taken, according to some Philadelphia medical professionals.

Fighting xylazine withdrawal can be easier if some unusual steps are taken, according to some Philadelphia medical professionals.

Philly hospitals test new strategy for ‘tranq dope’ withdrawal – and it keeps patients from walking out before their treatment is done

Traditional withdrawal treatments don't work for the animal tranquilizer xylazine, which is everywhere in Phlly's drug supply. Here's what does.

Kory London, The Conversation

Teen's severe abdominal pain came at her from two directions | Medical Mystery

Jonathan Ghaul and Rima Himelstein, For The Inquirer

An MRI machine provided the answers to the teen's abdominal pain.

I’m a doctor. Here’s how limiting social media can improve your health.

Trisha Pasricha, Washington Post

FILE - United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy discusses the importance of social connection to our mental and physical well-being with Matthew McConaughey, obscured at right, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Austin, Texas. The U.S. surgeon general has called on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those now mandatory on cigarette boxes. In a Monday, June 17, 2024, opinion piece in the The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy said that social media is a contributing factor in the mental health crisis among young people.(Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Penn’s hit-and-run shows it’s time for violence against ER nurses and doctors to stop

K. Jane Muir and Anish K. Agarwal

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in Philadelphia.

What medicine can learn from the rise of streaming video, podcasts on demand, and online shopping.

Jeffrey Millstein, For The Inquirer

Jeffrey Millstein a primary doctor, took advantage of digital age tools to help a patient who could not easily return for a follow-up visit at his practice at Penn Medicine's Woodbury Heights clinic.

Birds flying over the Schuylkill river with Philadelphia skyline in the background at sunrise January 18, 2023. Photograph taken from Spring Garden bridge.

Daylight saving time ends Sunday in Philly, and here’s to the bright sides

Anthony R. Wood

The supermoon rises over part of the city skyline on July 13, 2022.

A supermoon and a comet will be in the sky above Philly this week

Anthony R. Wood

Birds flying over the Schuylkill river with Philadelphia skyline in the background at sunrise January 18, 2023. Photograph taken from Spring Garden bridge.

Daylight saving time ends Sunday in Philly, and here’s to the bright sides

Anthony R. Wood

The supermoon rises over part of the city skyline on July 13, 2022.

A supermoon and a comet will be in the sky above Philly this week

Anthony R. Wood

A pedestrian photographs the fall colors and changing leaves behind Independence Hall in Philadelphia in November 2023.

Philly has Spring, Summer, and Winter Streets. What happened to Fall or Autumn?

Bruce Higgins makes a spider web while installing elaborate Halloween decorations at his house in Croydon last month. Those skeletons won't need jackets on Thursday.

Near-record warmth expected Halloween, as an all-time dry month ends

Anthony R. Wood

A pedestrian photographs the fall colors and changing leaves behind Independence Hall in Philadelphia in November 2023.

Philly has Spring, Summer, and Winter Streets. What happened to Fall or Autumn?

Bruce Higgins makes a spider web while installing elaborate Halloween decorations at his house in Croydon last month. Those skeletons won't need jackets on Thursday.

Near-record warmth expected Halloween, as an all-time dry month ends

Anthony R. Wood

Reproductive Health

Four Philly abortion providers talk about the calling that drives them to do emotionally challenging work

“If abortion is legal but there’s nobody to provide them, we don’t have legal abortion,” said Lisa Perriera, medical director of The Women’s Center’s five clinics.

Sarah Gantz and video by Lauren Schneiderman

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Four Philly abortion providers talk about the calling that drives them to do emotionally challenging work

“If abortion is legal but there’s nobody to provide them, we don’t have legal abortion,” said Lisa Perriera, medical director of The Women’s Center’s five clinics.

Sarah Gantz and video by Lauren Schneiderman

Post-Roe, contraceptive failures carry bigger stakes

Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News

Birth control failures can have big consequences in a post-Roe United States.

Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider. Most Philadelphians who go there aren’t ending a pregnancy.

Bobbie Trotenberg, a patient escort, watched as a patient entered Planned Parenthood in Center City after she walked her to the door in Philadelphia on July 20.

How overturning ‘Roe v. Wade’ will affect abortion access in Pa., NJ

People gather outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol Building for the Bans Off Our Bodies rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, October 2, 2021. The rally is part of demonstrations happening across the country defending women’s rights to seek abortions.

Pa. could see a surge of 8,500 abortion patients from other states

High schoolers from Philadelphia walk through the north portal of Philadelphia's City Hall to meet up with other students to protest for abortion rights on May 25, 2022.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle A. Henry last month.

Health & Pharma

Pa., N.J. join settlement with generic drug firms accused of price-fixing. Consumers may be eligible for refunds.

A woman holds two boxes of at-home COVID-19 test kits in Washington on Dec. 22, 2021.

Federal program offering free COVID tests is now open

Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle A. Henry last month.

Health & Pharma

Pa., N.J. join settlement with generic drug firms accused of price-fixing. Consumers may be eligible for refunds.

A woman holds two boxes of at-home COVID-19 test kits in Washington on Dec. 22, 2021.

Federal program offering free COVID tests is now open

The Opioid Crisis

In this June file photo, one of the buildings at 7979 State Rd. was undergoing renovations. Officials say the facility to treat people who use drugs could open as early as this fall.

Philadelphia Politics

Mayor Parker’s signature drug treatment facility could open this fall, documents say

Sanitation workers clear trash as people are relocated from an encampment on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia in May. The state trust overseeing spending of opioid settlement funds recently approved some spending to revitalize the neighborhood after rejecting it earlier this summer.

The Opioid Crisis

Parts of Philly’s Kensington revitalization plan were appropriate uses of opioid settlement money, state committee rules

In this June file photo, one of the buildings at 7979 State Rd. was undergoing renovations. Officials say the facility to treat people who use drugs could open as early as this fall.

Philadelphia Politics

Mayor Parker’s signature drug treatment facility could open this fall, documents say

Sanitation workers clear trash as people are relocated from an encampment on Kensington Avenue in Philadelphia in May. The state trust overseeing spending of opioid settlement funds recently approved some spending to revitalize the neighborhood after rejecting it earlier this summer.

The Opioid Crisis

Parts of Philly’s Kensington revitalization plan were appropriate uses of opioid settlement money, state committee rules

Special Reports

Lily Walker (left) with her cousin Peter Cellucci on the steps of the Washington Monument fountain at Eakins Oval at the 20th annual CHOP Parkway Run & Walk on Sunday in Philadelphia.

A medical mystery: Why two Philly-area cousins, just miles apart, got rare brain cancers

Pediatric cancer is rare. Malignant brain tumors in kids are even rarer. But these two cousins are in treatment for different, though equally aggressive, types of brain cancer — at the same time.

Hazel Rollerson, mother of Elwood Porter, who died of an overdose in the summer of 2021, shown here with the ashes of her son, in her home in Sicklerville, New Jersey, Tuesday, August 16, 2022.

Overdoses are killing a record number of Philadelphians as deaths soar among Black residents

Aubrey Whelan and Kasturi Pananjady

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw.

Philadelphia News

From August 2022: Philly FOP picked problematic doctors for police ‘injured on duty’ benefit

Barbara Laker, David Gambacorta, and William Bender

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Four Philly abortion providers talk about the calling that drives them to do emotionally challenging work

Sarah Gantz and video by Lauren Schneiderman

Mary Adamson (center), an ICU Nurse at Temple University Hospital, with other Temple nurses. Adamson wrote a piece about all of the nurses that remain in the profession.

5 medical professionals on why they stay as hospital workers flee post-COVID

Mary Adamson, Maureen May, Uhura Free Russ, Latoya Charise Nesbitt, Carlos Aviles, and Jonathan Ley

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