Cold Weather Freezes Outdoor Exercise Activities For Many
You resolved to exercise and get fit this year, but the weather isn't cooperating.
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You resolved to exercise and get fit this year, but the weather isn't cooperating.
This dangerous cold is presenting many health challenges for those spending time outside.
Area doctors offices are getting backlogged as patients newly insured under the Affordable Care Act seek appointments.
A physician at one emergency facility in West Philadelphia says it's not just an increase in slips and falls: the homeless and indigent make more use of ERs, too.
Philadelphia city officials joined forces with volunteers working to protect the most vulnerable population -- the city's homeless -- from the frigid, potentially deadly cold snap.
Blame it on the Polar Vortex. A large pool of frigid air that governs the north pole during the winter.
Rattled by his father's death and haunted by a family history of heart disease, Geno Vento decided to address his lifelong battle with obesity.
3 On Your Side Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl has more on how to stay safe and warm out there.
The plan includes major Medicaid reforms designed to reduce costs to the state, including monthly premiums for adults, work-search requirements, and caps on the number of medical visits and tests that can be performed.
Philadelphia-based psychologist Dr. Melissa Brand encourages parents to plan ahead, stock up on supplies, and structure the day.
Manna says it is shorthanded as it tries to maintain its pace of delivering hundreds of meals three times a day to people fighting life-threatening illnesses.
Next Tuesday the high temperature is forecast to be only 12 degrees F. Early-morning lows will be in the single digits.
The hearing was originally scheduled for the morning, but interest in the hearings has been high and registration filled so quickly that the department added an afternoon session. And that filled up, too.
A group of Mennonite cabinetmakers based near Morgantown, Pa., has filed a lawsuit challenging the same birth control mandate temporarily blocked by US Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor.
With snow coming to the Delaware Valley by nightfall, a local EMS official is reminding people who rely on medications or oxygen to make sure they have what they need before the storm begins.
