Category: 5. Health

As much as half of the fentanyl sold on Philly’s streets contains an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing. That’s according to our November 2024 testing of fentanyl samples collected in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, regarded as the largest open-air drug market…

Treatment for two rather than one may help prevent another bout of a common and unpleasant vaginal syndrome.

For many women who develop bacterial vaginosis, the syndrome returns weeks or months after treatment. A clinical trial of women in monogamous relationships with male partners…

Crohn’s disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and the causes are unclear but studies have linked it to autoimmunity, genetic risk factors, stress, and certain environmental conditions. Scientists have now found an association between Crohn’s…

The COVID-19 pandemic transformed over the past five years from a catastrophic threat that has killed over 7 million people to what most people regard today as a tolerable annoyance that doesn’t require precaution. Nonetheless, COVID-19 continues to kill over 2,000 people per month…

Aspartame is a synthetic sweetener that was created in 1965. It is estimated to be more than 150 times as sweet as sugar, and is commonly used as a sugar replacement in drinks, food products, and medicines. It’s been marketed as a way to indulge in sweet…

“Violence is just part of the job. Every nurse and health care worker experiences it at some point.”

Sentiments like this echo across American hospitals and health care facilities, capturing a disturbing and growing reality. Though Americans think of nursing as the most trusted…

Denver saw an increase in youth homelessness from 10% to 25% between 2017 and 2021, according to our study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal “Pediatrics.”

We are two physicians whose clinical work and research focuses on the social causes of health and disease. In…

Whenever the immune system fights a pathogen, it has a memory of that experience, whether it’s with an invader or a vaccine that mimics an infection, for example. Scientists have now developed a way to mine all of the rich history carried in a person’s immune…

A nasal spray developed to combat neuroinflammation has shown promise in treating traumatic brain injury (TBI) in mouse models. The findings were published in Nature Neuroscience and may pave the way for novel treatment options for TBI and other forms of…