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Eagles fans cheer after quarterback Jalen Hurts scores a touchdown during the third quarter of the NFC Championship game against the Washington Commanders on Jan. 26 in Philadelphia. Vocal health expert David Sataloff is providing tips for Eagles fans on how to protect their voices while cheering at the upcoming Super Bowl.

A Drexel doctor’s tips to avoid losing your voice at the Super Bowl

Drexel’s College of Medicine expert Robert Sataloff, a professional opera singer and conductor, offers tips to help fellow Eagles fans protect their voices during the E-A-G-L-E-S chant and beyond.

Jules Lipoff wears his Kansas City socks as he goes about working in Philadelphia.

Expert opinion: Doctoring as an Eagles frenemy

Jules Lipoff

Alissa Jerud, a licensed clinical psychologist at Penn Medicine, specializes in helping people overcome their fears. She's also a clinical assistant professor at Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania.

Plane crashes, wildfires, government funding, bird flu. Two Philly mental health experts offer crisis coping advice

Unionized nurses rallied in August to protest program reductions at Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park.

Negotiations over Crozer Health’s future hit a snag, bankruptcy lawyer tells judge

Harold Brubaker

People stopping to view the damage of the plane crash on Cottman Avenue Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, in Philadelphia. A medical jet with six people on board crashed Friday evening near the Roosevelt Mall in Northeast Philadelphia scattering debris throughout the streets, and setting multiple homes and cars ablaze in a devastating scene

After receiving months of care at Shriners, the girl in Friday’s plane crash left a profound impact on the children’s hospital

Erica Hayes holds a box where she keeps the medical supplies she needs to manage her long-covid symptoms, which include chronic fatigue, an irregular heart rate, low blood pressure, hives, migraines, and internal tremors. (Sarah Boden for KFF Health News)

Long-COVID patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments

Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Estimates vary, but the CDC puts it at 17 million adults.

Sarah Boden, KFF Health News

Penn’s royalties from Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine grow to at least $2 billion after new settlement

The new $467 million includes $400 million in royalties for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from 2020 through 2023.

A patient receives the monkeypox vaccine at the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity in North Philadelphia in 2022. The Black Doctors Consortium hosted the clinic.

Where to find free vaccines in Philadelphia this winter

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

A patient receives the monkeypox vaccine at the Dr. Ala Stanford Center for Health Equity in North Philadelphia in 2022. The Black Doctors Consortium hosted the clinic.

Where to find free vaccines in Philadelphia this winter

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

Expert Opinions

Expert opinion: Doctoring as an Eagles frenemy

Chiefs fan-physician finds he can bond with patients over rivalry, even if Eagles have to remain second to Kansas City in his heart.

Jules Lipoff

Jules Lipoff wears his Kansas City socks as he goes about working in Philadelphia.

Jules Lipoff wears his Kansas City socks as he goes about working in Philadelphia.

Expert opinion: Doctoring as an Eagles frenemy

Chiefs fan-physician finds he can bond with patients over rivalry, even if Eagles have to remain second to Kansas City in his heart.

Jules Lipoff

Expert Opinion | How to improve your sleep position to wake up feeling better

Trisha Pasricha, Washington Post

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A patient’s struggle to fill an Adderall prescription taught this doctor a lesson

Jeffrey Millstein, For The Inquirer

Adderall XR capsules on display.

When doctors look more like their patients, it can save lives | Expert Opinion

Daniel R. Taylor, For The Inquirer

An infant receives a routine vaccination in Fayetteville, Ga. in 2021.

Medical Mystery | What caused a college student’s shortness of breath and abdominal pain?

Paul Rosenberger and Rima Himelstein, For The Inquirer

An 18-year-old student's flu-like symptoms progressed to abdominal pain and eventually required a hospital admission. What was wrong?

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who suffered a concussion after striking his head on the field during a Dec. 22 game against Washington, is among nine members of the team who have had brain injuries during the 2024-25 season.

Despite high-profile QB concussions, NFL says brain injuries dropped 17% during the 2024 season

David Gambacorta

Shoe prints in the snow along Kelly Drive and the Schyulkill River Trail last week. Could you tell whether that's 0.1 or 0.3 inches?

Philly’s official snow total for Saturday just tripled

Anthony R. Wood

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, who suffered a concussion after striking his head on the field during a Dec. 22 game against Washington, is among nine members of the team who have had brain injuries during the 2024-25 season.

Despite high-profile QB concussions, NFL says brain injuries dropped 17% during the 2024 season

David Gambacorta

Shoe prints in the snow along Kelly Drive and the Schyulkill River Trail last week. Could you tell whether that's 0.1 or 0.3 inches?

Philly’s official snow total for Saturday just tripled

Anthony R. Wood

A man walks along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway amid snow on March 21, 2018 during an equinox snowstorm. Late-season snow have been known to happen.

New Orleans holds a big lead over Philly in snow totals this winter. Will that change?

Anthony R. Wood

Daliah Legenski (left) and her mother, Michele (right), of Durning String Band, battle the wind along Broad Street on New Year's Day, the beginning of what has been a very windy and bone-dry month.

Philly’s dry January (no, not that kind) has kept snow from melting and led to flaky skin

Anthony R. Wood

A man walks along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway amid snow on March 21, 2018 during an equinox snowstorm. Late-season snow have been known to happen.

New Orleans holds a big lead over Philly in snow totals this winter. Will that change?

Anthony R. Wood

Daliah Legenski (left) and her mother, Michele (right), of Durning String Band, battle the wind along Broad Street on New Year's Day, the beginning of what has been a very windy and bone-dry month.

Philly’s dry January (no, not that kind) has kept snow from melting and led to flaky skin

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.

Pan African Sisterhood Health Initiative (P.A.S.H.I.) volunteer Gail Hoffman (right) makes pads with other volunteers at the Ujima Friends Peace Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.

Dozens of Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew reusable period pads for girls in Africa and beyond

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.

Pan African Sisterhood Health Initiative (P.A.S.H.I.) volunteer Gail Hoffman (right) makes pads with other volunteers at the Ujima Friends Peace Center in Philadelphia on Wednesday, June 12, 2024.

Dozens of Black women in Philly gather weekly to sew reusable period pads for girls in Africa and beyond

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.

The Opioid Crisis

The Purdue Pharma offices are seen on May 8, 2007, in Stamford, Conn.

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

A Kensington Hospital wound care outreach van welcomes patients in 2023. The authors write that deploying mobile treatment units to reach people where they are is one of the ways to treat the wave of medetomidine or "rhino tranq" that is involved in one in five fentanyl-related deaths in Philadelphia.

Hospitals must develop new protocols as overdose crisis enters dangerous new phase

Kevan Shah and Suhanee Mitragotri, For The Inquirer

The Purdue Pharma offices are seen on May 8, 2007, in Stamford, Conn.

Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin

Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press

A Kensington Hospital wound care outreach van welcomes patients in 2023. The authors write that deploying mobile treatment units to reach people where they are is one of the ways to treat the wave of medetomidine or "rhino tranq" that is involved in one in five fentanyl-related deaths in Philadelphia.

Hospitals must develop new protocols as overdose crisis enters dangerous new phase

Kevan Shah and Suhanee Mitragotri, For The Inquirer

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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