Medicine

Cough drops

Discover candy and medicine's intertwined history

How fat could lead to more effective anti-aging treatments

Elderly Hands

Study: Male contraceptive gel found effective in preventing pregnancy

Male Birth Control

Villanova professor sees earthworms as hope for human blood substitute

Jefferson launches new integrative health institute

Jefferson Hospital

Penn dermatologists discover unlikely source to prevent scarring in wounds

Did Facebook post cost Pa. woman big in malpractice lawsuit?

Penn Medicine awarded $12 million federal grant for pancreas research

Jefferson lands $3 million donation for medical marijuana research center

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Penn study: There's now a faster medically proven way to induce labor

Drexel researchers awarded $3 million to test innovative gadget that heals chronic wounds

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Cancer Research

Napster founder to visit Penn for Philly launch of cancer-curing initiative he funded with $250 million

GlaxoSmithKline appoints insider as first female CEO

Emma Walmsley

Superheroes and superheroines: Rowan bioengineering students unleashed

Rowan engineer susperheroes

CHOP fundraiser honors slain Berks County family

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Pennsylvania health insurance companies request substantial 2017 rate increases

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Medical Marijuana

Pennsylvania issues progress report on Medical Marijuana Program

Penn Medicine developing next generation of viral vectors for genome editing

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Philly reporter saved by stroke diagnosis after losing eyesight

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Thirty percent of women in medical research report sexual harassment

Feds: South Philly doctors sold painkillers for cash

South Philly Doctor Charges Painkillers

FDA approves first drug in U.S. for Parkinson's-related psychosis

Fitbit helps man get vital heart treatment in Camden hospital

Fitbit Heart Rate

Zoobiquity conference explores cooperation in human and animal medicine

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Drexel partners with Brandywine Realty Trust on visionary Schuylkill Yards project

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Parents can spot errors that doctors miss, study finds

CHOP launches data platform for White House pediatric cancer initiative

Cancer Research

Black female physicist awarded $1.1M grant for cancer research

Penn study: Men with mustaches outnumber women in medical leadership roles

Four flu-fighting remedies by local wellness bloggers

MIT researchers aim to modernize Band-Aid with smart hydrogel

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Penn study: Aspirin may help earlier detection of breast cancer

FDA approves cancer drug licensed by Teva

Is scurvy, an 18th century seafarers' disease, making a comeback?

UPenn finds molecule that may block HIV, treat Alzheimer's

HIV destroyed

Philly ranks seventh in U.S. life sciences clusters

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Scientists develop pill to help gluten-intolerant people

New Jersey doctor's license revoked over negligent painkiller prescriptions

Penn Medicine redeveloping Cherry Hill Syms store into medical offices

Cherry Hill Medical Offices

Study: medical marijuana laws don't influence teens to smoke

Marijuana

New bill would make insurers pay for safer, abuse-deterrent painkillers

Wharton MBA grad leading fight against rare disease - his own

Jefferson med students learn to treat the often untreated: themselves

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

Pediatric Cancer Lianna Munir

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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

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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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