Bathrooms

Smartphones Hemorrhoids

Scrolling on your phone in the bathroom may increase your risk of hemorrhoids

Philly's Sapphira Cristál dominates comedy challenges in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'

Sapphira Cristal Plane Jane speakeasy bathroom RuPaul's Drag Race

Two new public restrooms, dubbed Philly Phlush, are now open in the city – with more on the way

Philly Public Restrooms

How easily does COVID-19 spread in public bathrooms?

Bathroom Risks COVID-19

Visitors to New Jersey parks leaving behind 'inordinate amount’ of urine, feces in water bottles

New Jersey parks

Why hand dryers are public enemy No. 1 for holiday shoppers

Washing Hands in Sink

New Jersey native Danny DeVito acknowledges super weird bathroom shrine

Danny DeVito Its always sunny in Philadelphia

Pa. GOP candidate Scott Wagner: People should use bathroom of gender assigned at birth

Scott Wagner

Go ahead, take a poop in this golden toilet

Golden Toilet

Ask Hickey: Is it wrong to enjoy global warming's perks or nah?

Locals can define transgender bathroom rules, so why not let 'em decide sanctuary city policies, too?

All Philadelphia public bathrooms now mandated to have baby changing stations

Here's what happened when I used an all-gender restroom at the DNC

All-Gender Restroom

Gender Neutrality

Philly restaurants must soon designate single-occupancy bathrooms as gender neutral

City Council approves gender-neutral bathroom bill

Starbucks apologizes to Philly police officer after viral bathroom incident

Public, single-user bathrooms in Philadelphia could become gender-neutral

On the market: Four ridiculously deluxe bathrooms

Paoli bathroom

Saks Fifth Avenue denies right to sue for transgender discrimination

Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

New cervical cancer screening guidelines endorse the use of self-swab kits

Pediatric Cancer Lianna Munir

'We need to have another option'

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How to keep holiday stress in check this season

Light Lamp SAD

After a lifetime of seasonal depression, I finally tried light therapy. Here's what I learned

Shinges Vaccine Dementia

Shingles vaccine may offer an additional benefit — slowing the progress of dementia

Zipporah Washington Temple

Nurse who beat hard-to-treat cancer says she stayed strong by thinking of herself as a 'survivor'

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