Workers at a Whole Foods Market in Pennsylvania voted to unionize on Monday, becoming the first group of employees to pull off a labor win at the Amazon-owned grocery store chain. Employees at the Philadelphia store at 21st Street and Pennsylvania Avenue cast 130 votes — or about 57% of the ballots cast — in…
The Eagles have Philly fandom peaking. With the Birds heading to the NFC championship game, the region is euphoric at the prospect of another trip to the Super Bowl. The social contagion is ramped, but not surprising. Philadelphia has a national reputation as having extremely passionate fans. Everyone remembers the ear-piercing volume at Citizens Bank Park…
With the dawning of a new year, many people resolve to lose weight – and try a new diet. Approximately 45 million Americans start a new diet every year. A recent poll of about 2,100 people found that nearly half of them said dieting is one of their 2025 goals. But research shows most diets…
Mixed. That’s how I’d characterize the state of men’s health and the lifestyles of Americans in 2024. There were hints that young men are now open to mental health care, and the push to revise the nation’s dietary guidelines advanced. Funding for social prescriptions got a financial boost from the federal government, and weight-loss drugs…
Misplace your glasses? Can’t find your keys? It’s a common part of life as we age, but so is our fear that this simple circumstance is a sign of something more. Is it the early onset of Alzheimer’s? Are we loosing a step cognitively? In the United Kingdom, dementia is the most feared health condition,…
These drugs are also not a one-stop solution for better health, as healthy eating and regular exercise are also key to losing weight. But current weight loss interventions based on lifestyle changes largely fail to meet the needs of Black women. MORE: Light lamps can help combat the winter blues, but choosing an effective one can…
Because there are typically no symptoms until the first fracture occurs, osteoporosis is considered a silent disease. Some call it a silent killer. Osteoporosis is a bone disease characterized by decreased bone density and strength, leading to fragile, brittle bones that increase the risk of fractures, especially in the spine, hips and wrists. MORE: Nearly…
Barely an hour before the first polls began to close on Election Day, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump posted on Truth social, the social network bearing his name, that there was rumored “cheating” in Philadelphia. “Law enforcement coming!!!” the former president wrote. A spokesman in the Philadelphia Police Department told Fortune the department was “not…
Topline A Philadelphia judge allowed billionaire Elon Musk to keep awarding $1 million per day to registered swing state voters—even as the program is nearly at an end—after Philadelphia’s district attorney sued to block the giveaway, claiming it violated Pennsylvania law. Elon Musk speaks at a rally for former President Donald Trump at Madison Square…
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s Political Action Committee (PAC) has told a Philadelphia court on Monday that “winners” of his $1 million-a-day voter sweepstakes in swing states are not chosen by chance but are instead chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the group. The recipients on Monday and Tuesday will come from Arizona and…