Health
Disconnected: Thousands in Delaware lack access to safer public water
In rural and unincorporated parts of fast-growing Sussex County, 98,000 residents rely on private wells. In many areas, the water is tainted, undrinkable.
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Listen 5:44Coronavirus update: What’s new in the evolving outbreak
Saturday's Lunar New Year celebrations were dampened in China by fears over the coronavirus outbreak and travel restrictions affecting 46 million people.
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Social controls, SARS experience help China close off cities
Cutting off access to entire cities with millions of residents to stop a new virus outbreak is a step few countries other than China would consider.
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Montco biopharm firm gets $9M grant to battle China’s new coronavirus
Inovio Pharmaceuticals received a grant to support development of a vaccine against the recently emerged strain of coronavirus.
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New Jersey joins Pa., Del. in screening newborns for a potentially deadly genetic disorder
New Jersey joins Pennsylvania and Delaware in testing babies for spinal muscular atrophy. But the test catches only 95% of cases.
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Saint Joseph’s, Jefferson partner to train future doctors as autism specialists
The collaboration seeks to combine Jefferson's clinical expertise with the work already being done to educate autism professionals at Saint Joseph's Kinney Center for Autism
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Deaths of people with intellectual disabilities in Pa. went unreported, says federal regulator
Thousands of unreported “critical incidents,” including two deaths and cases of abuse and neglect, were found in an audit of medical claims.
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Philly to start tracking doctors to target opioid overprescribers
Roughly 1% of the doctors write a quarter of all opioid prescriptions, and another 10% write half of them. Half of the doctors don’t ever prescribe opioids.
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Gov. Carney, lawmakers propose $50M for Delaware Clean Water Trust
Previous efforts to improve water quality would have levied a fee on households and businesses. They failed. Now, Gov. Carney is putting the proposal in the capital budget.
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New Jersey law bans sale of flavored vaping products
Gov. Phil Murphy and the bill's sponsors say the flavors are meant to hook young people, who are using the products in increasing numbers.
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‘Freed from the secret’: Rep. Ayanna Pressley opens up about living with alopecia
"I've only been bald in the privacy of my home and in the company of close friends," Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts says at the beginning of an emotional video.
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Supreme court takes up birth-control conscience case
The U.S. Supreme Court says it will consider whether employers should be allowed to opt-out of providing contraceptive coverage to their workers because of morals or religion.
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Menopause can start younger than you think: Here’s what you need to know
Sarah Edrie says she was about 33 when she started to occasionally get a sudden, hot, prickly feeling that radiated into her neck and face, leaving her flushed and breathless.
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In the decades after the Civil War, the nation was changing rapidly. Cities were industrializing, the railroad was expanding, business wa ...
Air Date: January 17, 2020
Listen 49:14The city’s push to open in Kensington still faces resistance. Meanwhile, the nonprofit has just $200,000 in the bank.
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