Health
New medical device aims to stimulate COVID patients’ lung function post-ventilator
Ventilator use atrophies the diaphragm, the muscle we use for breathing. The Lungpacer is designed to help coax it back to work, to enhance recovery.
4 years ago
A COVID-19 vaccine may be only 50% effective. Is that good enough?
As scientists race to develop a vaccine that proves "safe and effective," that doesn't mean it will prevent infection in everyone who gets it.
4 years ago
Antarctica is still free of COVID-19. Can it stay that way?
At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.
4 years ago
Oxford, AstraZeneca to resume coronavirus vaccine trial
AstraZeneca said that globally some 18,000 people have received the vaccine as part of the trial.
4 years ago
As COVID-19 vaccine trials move at warp speed, recruiting Black volunteers takes time
So far at least, participation by people of color volunteers in coronavirus trials has increased only slightly, compared to usual low levels.
4 years ago
Study: Kids infected at day care spread coronavirus at home
The study “definitively indicates — in a way that previous studies have struggled to do — the potential for transmission to family members."
4 years ago
Adults with COVID-19 twice as likely to have eaten at restaurants, CDC study
A CDC study of 314 adults who had been tested for the coronavirus found that the positive cases were twice as likely to have dined at a restaurant within a two-week period.
4 years ago
N.J. coronavirus recovery: Young people driving new cases; MVC chops away at backlog
People aged 14-18 accounted for 4% of the new positive cases, and residents between the ages of 19-24 made up 6% of new cases.
4 years ago
The benefits would have covered the cost of meals students normally receive at school. Pa. officials are outraged that the USDA rejected their bid.
4 years ago
Pa. coronavirus recovery: Remembering first responders, both on 9/11 and now
Pa. Health Secretary Rachel Levine says health care providers, EMTs, National Guard members, firefighters and police again answer the call to save lives.
4 years ago
Will a merger save struggling Einstein Hospital or increase costs for patients?
Einstein Healthcare says its flagship North Philly facility could close without a merger. Federal and state authorities say it will bring less competition.
4 years ago
Listen 2:06Huge budget cuts could hurt people with mental illness, disabilities most, Pa. providers fear
Funding for the Department of Human Services and the Department of Education make up the largest share of the budget that lawmakers pass each year.
4 years ago
Jefferson to open $762M specialty care pavilion in its continued East Market expansion
The center will be a one-stop shop for many programs, including the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, and Jefferson's respiratory and transplant institutes.
4 years ago
Pa. coronavirus recovery: International flights return to Philly
For the first time in five months, international flights from countries deemed high-risk will be allowed to resume at the Philadelphia International Airport on Monday.
4 years ago
Trump admitted to playing down the coronavirus’s severity, per new book
President Trump acknowledged the deadliness of the coronavirus in early February and admitted in March to playing down the virus's severity.
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