Movement, memory and Parkinson's awareness
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. Wendy Lewis, CEO of The Parkinson Council joins NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante to discuss the disease and the upcoming special event.
April is Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month. Wendy Lewis, CEO of The Parkinson Council joins NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante to discuss the disease and the upcoming special event.
NBC10’s Erin Coleman and Keith Jones joined Philadelphia area college basketball coaches for the 26th annual Coacher vs. Cancer Tip-Off Breakfast. Since 1996, the event has raised over $20 million for the American Cancer Society.
Restricting eating to eight or fewer hours a day, a type of intermittent fasting, may raise the risk of dying prematurely from heart disease over the long term, a new study suggests.
Rural emergency hospitals are starting to gain a small foothold in the United States.
Today is match day across the Philadelphia region. The day that medical students learn where they’ll be doing their residencies. However, it comes at a time when the number of Black doctors and medical professionals is at only 6%. Here’s how one organization is working to level the racial playing field.
When Olivia Munn revealed this week that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy, she urged people to ask their doctors to figure out their score on a breast cancer risk calculator.
A modified version of CAR-T therapy, which is used to treat leukemia and lymphoma, was found to be safe in two small, early clinical trials.
Johanna Mendoza developed red splotches on her wrist and belly and attributed it to something she ate. She felt stunned to learn she had leukemia.
It was a celebration Wednesday as officials cut the ribbon on Jefferson Health’s new Honickman Center in Center City. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle finds out what the state-of-the-art facility has to offer patients once it opens next month.
The Welcoming Center has helped immigrants survive and thrive for 20 years in Philadelphia. Executive director Anuj Gupta joins NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante for details the groups upcoming Solas Awards.
Aside from the nurses and doctors who work there, Abraham “Abe” Bren might know the halls of Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center better than anyone. He’s currently battling cancer for the fourth time, after also surviving a heart attack.
A medical assistant at a Montgomery County urgent care facility is accused of posing as a nurse while performing exams and hitting on patients, police said.
An independent report examining New Jersey’s response to the pandemic said the state and nation were unprepared for it, adding the state is still underprepared for the next crisis.
Daisha Ashby tells Philly Live’s Aunyea Lachelle how families can help Concilio’s mission to supply homes for foster children in Philadelphia.
Doctors around the country say insurers are making it harder to get coverage for home ventilators that patients with serious illnesses need as their lungs fail. They say patients often must struggle first with less-effective — and cheaper — devices before some plans will pay for noninvasive ventilators.
Sitting in the sun after handling certain foods like limes may cause an itchy rash or sunburn called photocontact dermatitis, sometimes called “margarita rash.”
Federal regulators are putting off a decision on Eli Lilly’s potential Alzheimer’s treatment with an unusual request to have an advisory committee examine the drug. Lilly expected a decision on donanemab in this year’s first quarter, which ends this month.
NBC10’s Matt DeLucia finds out why we spring ahead for Daylight Saving Time. Believe it or not, it all started in the 1700s with a joking letter from Benjamin Franklin, but wouldn’t take hold until more than a century later.
Here are the pluses and minuses that play a role in keeping our time changes in place.
Millions of Americans who have used new obesity drugs like Wegovy to lose weight and improve health are wondering what happens if they stop taking them.
Ronisha Shivers and little Genesis join NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante to talk about the life-saving work the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s cardiology department did for them. You can help CHOP’s cardiac unit at this weekend’s Philly Spin-in.