Keeping track of your pulmonary arterial hypertension

By Evan Starkman

If you have pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), it’s possible to lead an active, productive life. The key is to work closely with a specialist...

'Everyone is welcome': New Year's parade with checkered past of offensive costumes returns with an inclusive message

By Sahar Akbarzai

In recent years, some Mummers wore blackface even though it was banned in 1963 after the local branch of the NAACP and the Congress of Racial...

Shark Tank updates: Simply Good Jars moves into new HQ; Dino Don to launch dinosaur tour

By Ryan Mulligan

Simply Good Jars appeared on "Shark Tank" in March during the show's 12th season. Founded by Jared Cannon in 2017, a year after he graduated from...

Japan’s Uniqlo CEO Tadashi Yanai says won’t get sucked into US-China rivalry

By Julian Ryall

Hiromi Murakami, a professor of political science at the Tokyo campus of Temple University, agreed that Japanese people are becoming "more aware"...

How do you get dental care when you can’t afford it?

By Bobbi Dempsey

“Eligibility doesn’t necessarily mean access,” Amid Ismail, the dean of the Temple’s Kornberg School of Dentistry, said.

Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers

By Mark Scolforo

Historical markers educate the public and therefore can help fight systemic racism, said Diane Turner, curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-...

Joe Biden can’t save Roe v. Wade alone. But he can do this. | Opinion

By Rachel Rebouché, Greer Donley and David S. Cohen

“For nearly 50 years, anti-abortion politicians and activists have been taking audacious, legally murky and even blatantly unconstitutional...

Lost in the critical race theory debate: the enduring value of a free press | Opinion

By Linn Washington Jr.

“Overlooked in the onslaught against critical race theory is the danger this campaign holds for a constitutional right fundamental to democracy’s...

How China snuffed out threats across Asia in 2021

By Ralph Jennings

Pandemic diplomacy helped "burnish" China's image in much of the world, said Jeffrey Kingston, a history instructor at the Japan campus of Temple...

Temple University Hospital ranked among top teaching hospitals in the nation

By Jensen Toussaint

Temple University Hospital is being honored with a 2021 Leapfrog Top Hospital Award for Outstanding Quality and Safety. Each year, Leapfrog...

Looking back at higher ed's journey in 2021

By Autumn Arnett

After a lengthy court battle, athletes were awarded the right to profit off of their names, images and likenesses — many say that this decision...

"Society can fall apart:" the very real consequences of fake news

The spread of "fake news" in America has been aided and abetted by social media, and the consequences are dire. Min-Seok Pang, associate professor...

Pfizer antiviral pills may be risky with other medications

By Benjamin Ryan

Because the Paxlovid treatment is brief—30 pills, taken as three pills twice a day for five days—experts are hopeful that the risk of adverse...

Anger over mask mandates, other covid rules, spurs states to curb power of public health officials

By Amy Goldstein

The number of states that have passed laws similar to Ohio’s is proliferating fast, from eight identified in one study in May to more than double...

‘Time to shine’: Prince Moody and Temple athletes strive to bring diversity and equity to the forefront on North Broad

By Sam Cohn

 Prince Moody sat in the back row of a Student-Athlete Advisory Committee meeting in Pearson McGonigle Hall, his second gathering as Temple’s new...

Israel to offer fourth COVID-19 vaccine dose in bid to outpace Omicron

Early lab work has shown that vaccines' ability to neutralize the virus wanes with time after the third dose, a professor of biology at Temple...

Temple University gene editing spinoff forms partnership with Japanese distributor

By John George

A gene editing company spun out of Temple University has formed a partnership with a Japanese distributor of scientific products.

Temple University Health System gets second bond rating upgrade this month

By John George

Temple University Health System, for the second time this month, has received an upgrade from a bond rating agency. The upgrade reflects the...

Purdue plan rejection sets stage for liability release clarity

By James Nani and Daniel Gill

Both McMahon and Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain, who signed off on Purdue Pharma’s plan, “really want the Second Circuit to provide guidance on...

The FDA’s telehealth safety net for abortion only stretches so far

By Rachel Rebouché, Greer Donley and David S. Cohen

“If the Supreme Court overrules Roe v. Wade in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling—as many commentators and legal scholars...

Family business deals help fuel Carvana’s explosive growth

By Margot Patrick, Kristin Broughton and Ben Foldy

Publicly traded companies often shun related-party transactions because they raise questions about whether shareholders, or the related parties,...

Temple University receives grant to help fund Center for Anti-racism Research

By Chanel Hill

Professor and chair of Temple’s Department of Africology and African American Studies Molefi Kete Asante said the grant is significant for the...

Schools usually enforce child vaccinations. With COVID-19, that job is falling to private businesses

By Emily Barone

“[Policymakers] are saying, if you want to take on the privilege of being involved in these enrichment activities during the pandemic, we’re going...

Forman Mills’ former owner is opening a new deep-discount store

By Bob Fernandez

Sheri Lambert, professor of marketing at Temple University, said that shoppers will increasingly look to discount stores for bargains because of...

Threat found on Haverford Middle School bathroom wall prompts warning about dangerous TikTok challenge

By Jasmine Payoute

“They see that it’s been viewed a quarter million times, a half-million times, three-quarter of a million times in the past day, that gives the...