Dylan Purcell
Investigative Reporter, Data at The Philadelphia Inquirer
Investigative reporter/data @PhillyInquirer. Southpaw. he/him. Pulitzer Prize winner & 2x finalist. @TempleUniv alum. https://t.co/PzsNOvuzEw
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Dylan Purcell |Max Marin
In an effort to measure the toll of xylazine among people with opioid use disorders, The Inquirer examined patient billing records for millions of people admitted to Pennsylvania hospitals between 2016 and 2023. Xylazine, a veterinary sedative not approved for humans, was detected in at least 90% of street opioids 2021.
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1 month ago |
inquirer.com | Aubrey Whelan |Max Marin |Dylan Purcell
The woman came to Samir Mehta’s clinic with a wound in her leg. The infection ran so deep and had destroyed so much soft tissue that Mehta thought he was dealing with an aggressive form of cancer. As the Penn Medicine orthopedic surgeon was removing infected flesh around the patient’s tibia — a process called debridement – he said the bone began to crumble at his touch, like “rotting wood that falls apart in your hands.”He decided the only option was to amputate.
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2 months ago |
inquirer.com | Samantha Melamed |Max Marin |Dylan Purcell
Bailey McKenna had worked a year of landscaping jobs and weekend shifts at a local pub to earn the money for repairs to his dirt bike, paying his mechanic in installments. Finally, on Nov. 14, 2016, the 18-year-old high school senior from Northeast Philly’s Holmesburg section had the last of the cash in hand. He asked his older brother, Liam McKenna, for a ride in his truck so they could retrieve the red Honda. But Liam was tied up at work. “He couldn’t wait,” Liam McKenna said.
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2 months ago |
inquirer.com | Dylan Purcell
Three teenage boys have been hospitalized following a shooting in Philadelphia’s Cedarbrook/Stenton neighborhood on Saturday afternoon. The gunfire took place just after 5 p.m., police said. The victims were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center. One of the victims, an unidentified 15-year-old, is in critical condition, police said. The youngest, a 14-year-old boy, is in stable condition from a gunshot wound in his right thigh.
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Mar 10, 2025 |
firehouse.com | Dylan Purcell |Ryan Briggs
PHILADELPHIA — A key piece of hardware that aviation experts and pilots said could solve the mystery in the fatal crash of the medical transport Learjet on Jan. 31 turned out to be useless.
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