Leukemia in a seven-year-old girl was cured with help of immune cell therapy. Her own modified T-cells were used to cure cancer in her.

Trials are midway as abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell is charged with seven first degree murders and a third degree murder. The 72-year-old doctor from Philadelphia has been sued and is on verge of being hanged for brutally killing seven infants and a woman.

Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway Personal Transporter, has yet again come out with a novel electronic transport system known as Aspiration Therapy.

Kamen developed the system with the help of Aspire Bariatrics, Philadelphia. The system has been made in such a way that it will take out the predigested food from people's stomach so that they can lose weight.

The Philadelphia Government has announced that the Philadelphia School District will be providing free condom in 22 high schools. It is a pilot program, which has been initiated to bring a decline in sexually transmitted diseases.

This seven-year-old US girl was suffering from leukemia and had undergone extended chemotherapy sessions, but nothing was helping. She was at the verge of death when doctors at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia thought of trying a new treatment.

Have you ever thought how are yogurts and smoothies helping you in your diet and filling you full even with their smallest quantity intake? If no, then this news brings you the answer.

A recent report from the U. S. Geological Survey has sent warning signals in the society by claiming that coastal cities and wetlands in the US are more likely to be at risk of floods. There is no doubt over the way climatic changes are surprising every single country around the world in some or the other way.

In a bizarre twist, the panel that was revising the psychiatry’s influential diagnostic manual, backed away from the two proposals that would have brought more people under the category of psychotic or depressive. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lays down guidelines according to which people with depression or other mental disorders are characterized.

A new hope has been showed recently by U. S. Health and Human Services Secretary Ms. Kathleen Sebelius, who announced in her statement of Tuesday during her visit to the Fairmount Health Center in Philadelphia about the new federal funding that the health clinics will be soon provided with .

Smartphones are not only used to stay in touch with loved and dear ones, they are also something in which people store their personal and confidential details. However, if by any chance, you are visiting Philadelphia then you need to make sure that you don’t lose your cell phone as it has been found that in the country the cases of phone thefts are on a high.