Temple in the News
The Old York Road Revitalization Group is the latest effort to improve and promote an aging community on the outskirts of Philadelphia. Many inner-ring communities are dealing with aging...
October 10, 2011
Texting to track your calories may help peel off pounds. College students who used cell phones to monitor calories and physical activity and received personalized feedback about how they were doing...
October 10, 2011
When convicted bank robber Barry Douglas had his lawyers file a motion for a new trial, the document was filed under seal, which meant that no one but Douglas, the attorneys and the judge could see...
October 10, 2011
Flu season means big business for pharmacies, particularly those with clinics staffed with a licensed physician's assistant or a nurse who can give flu vaccines to children. Eric Keuffel, an...
October 10, 2011
A new Temple program called Philadelphia CeaseFire is using a public-health approach to reducing violence among young men. The program identifies young people at risk of being shot and offers them...
October 10, 2011
Tea party activists are increasingly turning to music — some of it inspired by protest music of the 1960s and '70s — to capture the spirit of their movement. About half of self-described tea party...
October 10, 2011
As the Phillies unexpectedly lost in the first round of the baseball playoffs and the Eagles are off to their worst start in over a decade, Philly sports fans may feel an overwhelming sense of...
October 10, 2011
Last week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, found that healthy men need no longer undergo PSA screens for prostate cancer because the tests don't save lives and...
October 10, 2011
Seven months after the triple meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi, Tepco, which operated the facility, owes $50 billion in compensation to the tens of thousands who lived close to the nuclear plant. In the...
October 9, 2011
One of the earliest computers that the late Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak manufactured at Apple used a microprocessor from Delaware Valley-based MOS Technology Inc. of Norristown, Pa. "A...
October 8, 2011