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Don't take a chance when it comes to pertussis. It's a fact: Whooping cough is on the rise again.

And anyone who may be near infants should ...

CHICAGO — For more than a decade, millions of lives have been saved by statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor, which lower bad cholesterol and the ri...

Suppose you could repair tissue damaged by a heart attack by magically turning other cells into heart muscle, so the organ could pump effectively ...

People visiting Chester County Hospital's pediatric wing may think they have wandered into a child's play room with the lively murals painted on t...

The hospital boasts cutting-edge technology like the daVinci SI robot

With clinical partnerships with the University of Pennsylvani...

CHICAGO — Some people who couldn't get their blood pressure under control despite taking a fistful of pills every day found relief from an experim...

According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 186,320 new cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. and nearly 30,000 men will d...

NORRISTOWN - No matter how you look at the statistics for aging Pennsylvanians and the elderly population in Montgomery County, there is a growing...

The Chester County Hospital received full accreditation with PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) from the Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC...

Gateway Medical Associates is Chester County’s largest independent physician practice, and has been serving the community since 1996. Gateway’s 36...

After years of adding everything from groceries to grills to their inventory, drugstore chains are once again emphasizing their pharmacies.

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Penn Medicine Research Study Suggests New Role for ECMO in Treating Patients with Cardiac Arrest and Profound Shock
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries ...
Penn Medicine Study Finds Broad Support for Rationing of Some Types of Cancer Care
The majority of cancer doctors, patients, and members of the general public support cutting health c...
PARP Inhibitor Shows Activity in Pancreatic, Prostate Cancers Among Patients Carrying BRCA Mutations
In the largest clinical trial to date to examine the efficacy of PARP inhibitor therapy in BRCA 1/2 ...

Jefferson Department of Family and Community Medicine Examines Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Specifically in Cancer Care
Third-year residents in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have organized a symposium examining r...
Jefferson Named a Quality Respiratory Care Institution by the American Association for Respiratory Care
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital was recently bestowed the title of “Quality Respiratory Care Institution” (QRCR) for 2013 by the American Associa...
VEGF May Not Be Relevant Biomarker for Advanced Prostate Cancer
The well-studied protein VEGF does not appear to have any prognostic or predictive value for men with locally advanced prostate cancer, researchers fr...

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