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Between January 1, 2018 and July 18, 2020, 26,335 emergency room visits for opioid overdoses were recorded across Pennsylvania. In Chester County, 282 people died from opioid overdoses over roughly the same period.

Getting a good night’s rest can be difficult even under the best of circumstances. According to a 2018 study from Penn Medicine researchers, about a quarter of Americans experience acute insomnia each year.

Donita Brady, PhD, a Presidential professor of Cancer Biology and member of the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute at the Perelman School of Medicine, planned to pursue a career in sports medicine.

As election day looms ever closer in the United States, we’re being asking to do something else in a completely different way than most of us ever have before. Vote.

An online exhibit seeking to use art as a medium for reflection in health care workers and researchers, Rx/Museum launched with a July 20 post called “While I Breathe.”

Ghimire was born in Bhutan, a landlocked country nestled between China and India in the eastern Himalayan Mountains. In the 1990s, a civil war broke out, and Ghimire, then age 4, and his family were forced to move to the refugee camp, where he spent the next 18 years.

Every time Alexandra Rella gives a presentation on workplace ergonomics, she starts by telling her audience to stand and stretch. Backs arch. Necks roll. Moans of appreciation fill the air.

In Greek mythology, legend has it, ships passing through a narrow strait were forced between a terrible duo: Scylla, a six-headed monster, on one side, and Charybdis, a whirlpool that would suck in sailors who came too close, on the other.

It’s Saturday afternoon. Craig Gronczewski, MD, steps up to the microphone with a guitar, closes his eyes, and starts to strum and sing.

In August, my sister had the back-to-school blues as she prepared for another semester in college. However, her worries weren’t about class schedules or waking up early for the dreaded 8 a.m. courses. She was concerned about being surrounded by classmates again amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.