Let’s distinguish between ageism and aging

Philly Voice (Health) 1/10 8:58A The IBX Insights Team

Determining what someone is capable of should be based on their actual physical or mental limitations. And even if they’re faltering in one area, that doesn’t mean they’re impaired in others.

Pa.'s Medicaid program now covers biomarker tests that lead to personalized cancer treatments

Philly Voice (Health) 1/5 11:15P Michaela Althouse

All Pennsylvania-regulated medical plans, including the state's Medicaid program, must now cover biomarker tests that potentially allow for personalized cancer treatments by identifying unique patterns in a person's cancer. Another change for...

Stimulant users are caught in fatal 'fourth wave' of opioid epidemic

Philly Voice (Health) 1/3 4:44A Lynn Arditi, The Public’s Radio

The mix of stimulants like cocaine and methamphetamines with fentanyl is driving the opioid epidemic's 'fourth wave.' This mixture presents powerful challenges to efforts to reduce overdoses because many users of stimulants don't know they are at...

Achieve Your New Year's Resolution | 3 Steps to Losing Weight

PhillyBite Healthy 12/31 12:02P phillybite.com@gmail.com (Philly

Philadelphia, PA - The first step is to figure out your basal metabolic rate; this is the number of calories your body burns just for existing. Pumping blood, breathing, blinking, and everything else...

Women are more likely to binge drink when their estrogen levels are high, study finds

Philly Voice (Health) 12/31 4:53A Courtenay Harris Bond

A new, preclinical study links estrogen to binge drinking in women. When offered alcohol, female mice drank it more quickly if their estrogen levels were high, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine found. The findings may impact treatment for...

Diet low in magnesium could be linked to higher risk of heart disease

Philly Voice (Health) 12/26 7:48A Michael Tanenbaum

As many as half of Americans get less the the recommended daily intake of magnesium, a mineral that's important for a range of functions including sleep, bone density and bowel regularity. A growing body of research also shows that magnesium...

Healthy Recipe: Turkey and Pear Sandwich

Philly Voice (Health) 12/26 3:28A Independence Good Living

It’s fresh, filling, and can be made in minutes!

How Global Health Trends Influence Everyday Life

PhillyBite Healthy 12/26 1:53A phillybite.com@gmail.com (Philly

Philadelphia, PA - In an interconnected world, global health trends are becoming integral to everyday life. From innovations in healthcare to the fight against health inequalities, these trends...

Healthy Recipe: Chicken Cacciatore

Philly Voice (Health) 12/20 7:10A Independence Good Living

Warm up your kitchen with the aroma of Chicken Cacciatore, a dish that proves comfort food can be both indulgently delicious and healthy.

Diabetic Drink Sugar Free Drink Solutions

PhillyBite Healthy 12/16 1:24P phillybite.com@gmail.com (Allie

Don't you hate it when you ask for a sugar-free drink in a pub or restaurant, and all they offer is diet cola or water?

AIDS Fund Philly to close after 35 years spent working to reduce HIV infections

Philly Voice (Health) 12/16 2:37A Michaela Althouse

AIDS Fund Philly, which has spent 35 years working to reduce HIV infections and AIDS deaths, is closing on Dec. 31, 2024. The nonprofit has raised money for people with HIV and organizations that serve them through its monthly GayBINGO and annual...

The role of friends and peers in preventing impaired driving

Philly Voice (Health) 12/13 4:51A Peter Key, sponsored by Independ

Driving under the influence of alcohol causes nearly 30 percent of traffic deaths in the U.S. every year.

The drop in overdose deaths may be the result of more veterinary tranquilizers – and less fentanyl –...

Philly Voice (Health) 12/13 4:34A Courtenay Harris Bond

Bags of dope in Philadelphia contain a lower percentage of fentanyl and a.higher percentage of animal tranquilizers in recent months. This shift has lead to more intense sedation and withdrawal, and also may account for a decline in drug overdose...

5 Tips for Having a Perfect Mushroom Trip While in Philadelphia

PhillyBite Healthy 12/12 3:02A phillybite.com@gmail.com (Philly

Your first Philadelphia mushroom trip should leave you in awe. It has the potential to be a profoundly transformative, spiritually uplifting, and profound journey of self-discovery. Starting off on...

Philly's new health commissioner brings 3 decades of city service to the job

Philly Voice (Health) 12/10 4:31A Chris Compendio

Palak Raval-Nelson, the deputy commissioner for the city's Department of Public Health, has been promoted to commissioner by Mayor Cherelle Parker. Raval-Nelson has spent 28 years working for the department, beginning as a health inspector in...