- Plastic surgery vs. expectations
Which cosmetic surgeries do women want most after childbirth? Which cosmetic procedure is the most popular with men between 30 and 60? How have face-lifts changed over the last 40 years?
24 hours of photos
On May 19, 2011, Children's Hospital gave Daily News reporters and photographers unprecedented access to groundbreaking treatments. Here are dispatches from our marathon 24-hour visit.
- Expert advice on telling a child a parent is dying
- When Mom or Dad will die: What to tell the kids?
In the movies, people often die in some quick, dramatic way. There are bullets, train wrecks, serial killers, monsters, or, at least, exotic illnesses. If they die quietly, they almost always leave with a memorably pithy comment.
Many of us don't know much more than that about death until it comes to live in our own house.
On June 5, 1981, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control published the first description of a mysterious disease in gay men that would later be named Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Thirty years later, AIDS has killed more than 25 million people worldwide and changed American institution.
- Conjoined twins Stefan and Tyler Delp
Stefan and Tyler Delp and their parents
Brothers Stefan and Tyler Delp have spent every second of their lives together. But the boys have never seen each other's faces except for some sleight of hand with mirrors or computers.
- Abortion doctor charged with murder
Kermit Baron Gosnell was arrested on Jan. 19, 2011, and charged with eight counts of murder in connection with the operation of his West Philadelphia abortion clinic.
- How to change your life in six weeks
- Change of heart tips
Watch a six-part video series on how to change your life and improve the health of your heart.
- Timeline: A history of area medical innovations
The Philadelphia region is currently home to 446 bioscience companies, many of which consistently break ground in the development of new biotechnology therapies, vaccines, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics.
In an economy fueled in large part by health care, innovations abound. There is robotic surgery, proton therapy, personalized genomics. One groundbreaking innovation involves patients and doctors talking to each other.
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Andy Gordon was in his 50s when the symptoms of his Type 1 diabetes - the warning signs that used to tell him he needed insulin - mysteriously started to fade. So he agreed to try a transplant that may get him off his insulin pump forever.
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Philadelphia-area pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical-device companies send pills, proteins, and devices all over the world, but foreign companies also continue to send their people here to set up shop so they can sell products and services to local consumers and businesses.
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