Health Care
Sarah Murnaghan Gets Second Lung Transplant After First Fails
10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan, who has cystic fibrosis, received a much-publicized lung transplant on June 12th this year. Soon after the surgery, her mother said today, […]
New Study: Raising Cigarette Taxes Reduces Smoking Significantly [Updated]
Michael Nutter is trying to impose a cigarette tax in Philadelphia to help pay for a school budget shortfall. (The bill has passed; he’s waiting […]
Maybe Sarah Murnaghan Shouldn’t Get a Lung Transplant
I don’t have a critically ill child, and I don’t usually read articles about people who do. It’s not that I’m heartless. It’s just that […]
Here’s My Problem With Angelina Jolie’s Scare Tactics
Saint Angelina is getting on my nerves. I’ve used this space before to vent my feelings about the emaciated, leg-jutting, holier-than-thou Angelina Jolie, and the […]
Sarah Murnaghan’s Family Hires Law Firm to Fight for Lung Transplant
A petition has seemingly gone nowhere. President Obama’s health secretary is offering no short-term help. So Sarah Murnaghan’s family is taking the next step to […]
Can A Petition Get Sarah Murnaghan The New Lung She Needs?
More than 72,000 people have signed a petition urging transplant officials to get Sarah Murnaghan, 10, the lung she needs if she is going to survive […]
Top 5 “Hot Mess” Celebrities in Need of Help Not Harm
First of all, a disclosure: I’m not a doctor, I’m a journalist. That means I can’t provide any medical diagnoses, only self-righteous opinions about pop […]
5 Scary Things About Obamacare
In her recent preview of Philadelphia magazine’s (excellent, by the way) new cover story, “The Ultimate Guide to Obamacare,” editor Sandy Hingston urged readers to […]
Don’t Let Republicans Scare You About Obamacare
For the past few years, my colleague, health and fitness editor Emily Leaman, and I have worked together to produce our annual “Top Doctors” feature. […]
What It Means When Catherine Zeta-Jones Says She’s Getting “Bipolar Maintenance”
Catherine Zeta-Jones, who has bipolar disorder, has checked herself into the hospital for treatment. Her publicist has explained this a proactive visit, and a source […]
Local Republican Jim Gerlach Creates Bill to Tax Flu Shots
Do you have the flu? Are you sneezing, congested, miserable? Good. Sixth District Congressman Jim Gerlach sees money in that. He wants to tax your […]
ObamaCare Update: Catholic Lumberjacks Don’t Have To Pay For Birth Control
Courthouse News Service reports that Seneca Hardwood Lumber Co., of Cranberry, PA., is getting to proceed with its lawsuit against ObamaCare’s requirements that it cover contraception […]
How Not Having Bronchitis Cost Me $1,500 at Lankenau
A 2011 Centers for Disease Prevention and Control study states that about 79.7 percent of adults aged 18–64 whose last hospital visit in the […]
4 Extreme Ways Companies Have Restricted Smoking on the Job
Next year, states will begin implementing major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the most controversial of these being the “individual mandate”—which requires all […]
Bala Cynwyd Biz Will Cut Workers, Hours To Avoid Obamacare Requirements
Some employers say that Obamacare’s new requirements that all Americans have health insurance is too expensive for them to comply with. The Wall Street Journal […]