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Justice System

Lawsuit ends with ‘Black Doctors Directory’ opening to all physicians

August 28, 2025August 27, 2025
Beth Ann Rosica

By Beth Ann Rosica

Healthcare

Edward Balaban: Independent NPs won’t solve Pennsylvania’s deeper healthcare problems

June 27, 2025June 26, 2025
Edward Balaban

As a physician serving Pennsylvania’s communities, I’m deeply concerned about the push for full independent practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) […]

Religion

Thom Nickels: Where medicine and spirituality meet

March 14, 2025March 13, 2025
Thom Nickels
1

Mark Twain was half in love with her and called her “the most interesting woman that ever lived, and the […]

Civic Culture

Thom Nickels: It’s like pulling teeth

March 28, 2024March 26, 2024
Thom Nickels
1

Adventures in dentistry in Philadelphia.
By Thom Nickels

Health

Frank Speidel: Throughout Pennsylvania and our republic, health care is withering

June 20, 2023June 19, 2023
Frank Speidel
3

Healthcare costs more and Medicare and Medicaid pay less — is it any wonder hospitals are losing money?
By Frank Speidel, MD

History

Why I can see: three men’s places in the history of cataract surgery

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023
Richard Koenig
1

Philadelphia’s Wills Eye Hospital played a pioneering role in the development of the now-common procedure.
By Richard Koenig

Health

Richard Koenig: Beating Warp Speed — plug-and-play Covid vaccines zip past regulators

October 27, 2022November 6, 2022
Richard Koenig
2

As the pandemic wanes still further, “emergency” authorizations only become easier.
By Richard Koenig

Health

Sen. Mike Regan: Legalization of adult-use marijuana is inevitable

October 5, 2021December 7, 2021
Sen. Mike Regan
2

It’s time for Pennsylvania to legalize adult-use marijuana, and in doing so improve the safety, state, and opportunities of our neighborhoods. Change is coming – let’s leverage it for good.
By Sen. Mike Regan

Health

Medicine is getting major injections of woke ideology

August 13, 2021August 17, 2021
John Murawski
1

Critical race theory and other tenets of woke ideology have permeated medicine and health care. Schools, journals, centers, and physicians are taking up arms, having declared racism a “public health crisis.”
By John Murawski

Op-Ed

Will Pennsylvania’s congressional appropriators help save Pennsylvanians’ health and jobs?

Will Pennsylvania’s congressional appropriators help save Pennsylvanians’ health and jobs?

schedule August 28 2025
ink_pen Craig Snyder

As the smokestack-based economy of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania began to recede in the later decades of the last century, […]

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