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...

Access to donor kidneys, livers to widen as HHS approves transplants between people with HIV

Philly Voice (Health) 11/26 10:05A Courtenay Harris Bond

The Department of Human Health Services gave final approval to allowing kidney and liver transplants among people with HIV, a move that is expected to widen the donor pool. Research shows these transplants are as safe and as effective as those...

Obesity drugs would be covered by Medicare and Medicaid under Biden administration proposal

Philly Voice (Health) 11/26 8:09A Courtenay Harris Bond

About 7 million people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid would gain access to weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro, which are not covered by these federal programs, under a new Biden administration proposal. But it will...

Prediabetes: An opportunity to change course

Philly Voice (Health) 11/26 7:22A Dr. Nuria Lopez-Pajares, for Ind

For most people, type 2 diabetes is preceded by a condition called prediabetes.

Music can help improve mental health, but the reason for this remains a mystery

Philly Voice (Health) 11/21 5:00A Courtenay Harris Bond

Music therapy can help treat some neurological and psychiatric disorders, and helps decrease anxiety and improve functioning in people with depression, research shows. But the precise mechanisms that give music so much power over emotions are...

A 40-year-old’s journey through her first mammogram

Philly Voice (Health) 11/20 4:43A Ashley Weyler, for Independence

Yearly mammograms are important in the fight against breast cancer.