As a trained chemist and a former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Chester County, I’ve always viewed […]
Christopher Drumm: Senator McCormick, please convene a Health Care and Innovation Summit
In July of this year Senator Dave McCormick convened the Inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit in Pittsburgh. By any […]
An historic hoax in Philadelphia academia
Long before modern technology availed itself of sinister online aspects that allowed for chilling hoaxes like what was perpetrated during […]
Edward Balaban: Independent NPs won’t solve Pennsylvania’s deeper healthcare problems
As a physician serving Pennsylvania’s communities, I’m deeply concerned about the push for full independent practice for nurse practitioners (NPs) […]
Thom Nickels: Where medicine and spirituality meet
Mark Twain was half in love with her and called her “the most interesting woman that ever lived, and the […]
Frank Speidel: Throughout Pennsylvania and our republic, health care is withering
Healthcare costs more and Medicare and Medicaid pay less — is it any wonder hospitals are losing money?
By Frank Speidel, MD
Why I can see: three men’s places in the history of cataract surgery
Philadelphia’s Wills Eye Hospital played a pioneering role in the development of the now-common procedure.
By Richard Koenig
