What big health stories did the media miss in 2010? Albert Wertheimer, a professor in Temple's School of Pharmacy, said the growth in personalized medicine was his biggest newsmaker of the year. The term refers to the tailoring of medical treatments to each patient. "No drug works for 100 percent of the people….It's a hit and miss game," Wertheimer said. It is now easier to prescribe the right drug the first time and cut down on dangerous side effects of drugs that won't work anyway.

For several years, studies and statistics have been mounting that suggest the culture of play in the United States is vanishing. Children spend far too much time in front of a screen, educators and parents lament. And only one in five children lives within walking distance (a half-mile) of a park or playground. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a developmental psychologist at Temple, concluded, "Play is just a natural thing that animals do and humans do, but somehow we've driven it out of kids."