Dr. Edith P. Mitchell is widely known for her work in fighting cancer disparities. In 2015, she was elected the president of the National Medical Association, which has a membership of over 30,000 African American physicians, and was named to EBONY Magazine’s Power 100 List.
Category: Philadelphia, PA
Mayor: Obamacare Repeal Could Leave 220K Uninsured in Philly
Tuesday is the deadline to sign up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney says a repeal of the act without replacement will leave more than 200,000 people uninsured in the city of brotherly love.
At Phila. airport, protest, detentions, anger, and hope15 minutes ago
After a New York City judge Saturday night put a stay on President Trump’s executive order banning certain refugees and immigrants from entering the United States, about five travelers remained held at Philadelphia International Airport as Philadelphia attorneys scrambled to keep them in the country. The order by Judge Ann M. Donnelly of Brooklyn Federal Court came too late for two Christian Syrian immigrant families who were sent back to Doha, Qatar, after being held at PHL on Saturday morning.
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A recent piece in The Atlantic – aimed at undermining the use of ultrasounds to convince people that infants in the womb are human – was so filled with errors that after its publication the magazine was forced to issue a slew of “we regret” addenda to the piece to apologize for the many inaccurate assertions made by the author. Thus far no less than four corrections have been added to the January 24 article, which tends to upend the author Moira Weigel’s political stance that a fetus isn’t fully human at certain stages of development.
Letters: Price is wrong steward for country’s health care
Rep. Tom Price, the nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. I am a pediatrician in Philadelphia, and I oppose the nomination of U.S. Rep. Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services.
‘There was no intent to murder. There was no violence.’ But he’s been locked up 32 years.
NORMAN BRYANT was just 15 on Jan. 29, 1985, when he joined older brother Kenneth and a 14-year-old friend in a burglary of what they believed was an empty house in West Philadelphia. When Kenneth Bryant went upstairs, he found himself face to face with the occupant, Gertrude Jones, 82. He shoved her, then went back downstairs, never mentioning the run-in to the others.
Philly cops under Richard Ross: Steady as she goes44 minutes ago
Dozens of local and national journalists in late July packed into the bunkerlike room in the city’s Office of Emergency Management on Spring Garden Street, hurling questions at six Philadelphia officials about the impending Democratic National Convention. The performance, in retrospect, was quintessential Ross: measured, self-assured, and steeled by nearly three decades in the Philadelphia Police Department.