John Kopp
John Kopp is the Chief Health Reporter/Assistant Editor at PhillyVoice. He joined the newsroom after spending five years reporting for the Delaware County Daily Times. He spent the prior year covering state and local politics, including a $4 million Pennsylvania state Senate race. He previously covered Chester city government, the Chester Upland School District and high-school sports. A Temple University graduate, John enjoys long-distance running, watching baseball and exploring new places.
June 29, 2018
Health News
New drug designed to control excessive underarm sweating
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug developed to reduce excessive sweating – a chronic skin condition that produces more sweat than needed to regulate normal body temperature.June 28, 2018
Opioids
Opioid-related deaths in Pennsylvania are way higher than the numbers show
Some 70,000 opioid-related overdose deaths likely went unreported across the United States from 1999 to 2015, according to a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.June 28, 2018
Opioids
Crozer-Keystone opioid center one of 'busiest' in Pennsylvania
Crozer-Keystone Health Systems has engaged more than 1,000 people battling opioid addiction since opening its Center of Excellence, a full-service case management program launched in January 2017.June 26, 2018
Illness
Tori and Nick Foles tackling disorder that causes constant dizziness
Tori Foles spent six weeks searching for the reason for the seemingly constant dizziness she began experiencing shortly after college. She was diagnosed with POTS, a malfunction of the automatic nervous system.June 25, 2018
Health News
Ralph Muller to step down as UPHS chief executive
Ralph W. Muller will step down as chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System next June, Penn officials announced on Monday afternoon.June 25, 2018
Fitness
Yoga boosts – not diminishes – your ego
Don't expect yoga to lower your ego – a central claim of the trendy, but ancient, practice.June 22, 2018
Prevention
Einstein Healthcare takes fight against HIV to the streets
A medication proven to prevent HIV has been available in the United States for six years. Yet, awareness of PrEP has remained minimal in some of the Philadelphia neighborhoods where HIV is most prevalent.June 22, 2018
Health News
How do you view a person with a facial deformity?
Researchers at Penn Medicine's new neuroaesthetics research center – the first in the United States – have been studying the way people react to people with facial disfigurements.June 21, 2018
Mental Health
New research challenges a treatment left-handed people receive for mental health
New research suggests that the way the brain directs the behaviors of approach and avoidance is based on your dominant hand – a finding that eventually could spark changes in mental health treatment.June 19, 2018
Adult Health
Fewer U.S. adults are smoking cigarettes
The number of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes continues to decline, according to an annual national health survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Just In
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