Health Watch: 4th Of July Firework Health Warning
The dangers of fireworks. Hospitals are gearing up for an expected patient increase this fourth of July weekend. Emergency rooms treated 8,600 firework related injuries last year.
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The dangers of fireworks. Hospitals are gearing up for an expected patient increase this fourth of July weekend. Emergency rooms treated 8,600 firework related injuries last year.
For nearly three decades 130,000 Swedish women between 40 and 74 were followed to try to find out if mammography screening has an impact on breast cancer mortality.
A new treatment for breast cancer is stirring up debate. Health Reporter Stephanie Stahl is On Your Side with details.
Thousands turned out to watch and to participate in the annual Philadelphia triathlon in Fairmount Park.
Saturday was the Sprint distance. Sunday, the big event, the Olympic distance features pros and elites competing for $40,000 in prize money.
Volunteers were asked to show up at hair salons -- including one in Ocean City, NJ -- where samples were taken and examined.
Using your own cells to look younger. It's a breakthrough treatment from a Biotech company in Chester County that just got FDA approval.
Now that Philadelphia schoolchildren are being let out of classes for the summer, Mayor Michael Nutter has helped kick off a free summer meals program.
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Defibrillators in public places. They're supposed to save lives, but there's no guarantee they'll work. It's an issue currently being reviewed by the FDA.
New cigarette warning labels are unveiled today. They have graphic images in the hopes of keeping people from smoking, but will they really make a difference?
AARP and the city's recreation department hosted a lunchtime health and wellness event at Love Park on Monday.
Need local medical information? Now there's an app for that.
When recovering from mental health problems, the transition from being a patient to a student or employee can be tricky.
About 40 young people growing up in some of Philadelphia's toughest neighborhoods, many of whom may have thought they had no chance of getting a good job or a good education, graduated Friday from the St. Christopher's Hospital "Health Tech" program.
