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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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An FDA contract worker collects food and supplies from a food pantry in Baltimore. In the face of a Trump administration proposal that could cause 3 million people to lose federal food assistance, mayors from 70 cities are pushing back. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
NPR
Kids
National
Politics

70 mayors reject Trump food stamp proposal, saying it puts kids at risk

Mayors from 70 cities send a letter to the Trump administration, saying a plan to push millions of people out of the food stamp program would punish some of the neediest.

6 years ago

What it looks like inside one of Vancouver's Insitesupervised injection facilities. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia
Billy Penn

Step-by-step: How Philly’s overdose prevention site will work

From entry and observation to “motivational moment” and referral.

6 years ago

Suboxone, an oral film prescribed for the medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction and dependency, is pictured in this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 photo. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)
Addiction
Pennsylvania

Hospitals to share opioid treatment strategies under $10 million plan

Health systems are known more for competition than working together, but when it comes to treating opioid addiction, that may be changing.

6 years ago

A 15-year-old in Cambridge, Mass., shows off her vaping device in 2018. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
NPR
Media
Public Health

Cigarettes can’t be advertised on TV. Should Juul ads be permitted?

Why does e-cigarette maker Juul advertise its product on TV when cigarette ads are banned? The short answer: Because it can.

6 years ago

At the kitchen table Summer Mills goes over documents accumulated in the past months while dealing with dental issues, on April 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Health Care
Income Inequality
Pennsylvania

For low-income Pennsylvanians, dental care can be a nightmare

More than 1 million adults on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have only bare bones coverage. Why is getting dental care so hard for these patients?

Air Date: August 20, 2019

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Cheryl Juaire (left) and Tracy Martin of Team Sharing, a national support group for parents of overdose victims, speak at a rally outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia in support of supervised injection sites. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia

What counts as saving a life? United States v. Safehouse kicks off

Lawyers for the nonprofit proposing a supervised injection site compared it to ERs, syringe exchanges. U.S. attorneys said the difference is they’re legal.

6 years ago

FILE- In this July 10, 2018, file photo bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J. Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Health Care
Income Inequality
Medicine

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

6 years ago

Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna (right) and her mother Linda Hanna (left) co-founded the company in 2014. Linda's more than 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and certified lactation consultant helped them understand the need, they say. (Keith Alcantara/Mahmee)
NPR
Gender
Home & Family

This app aims to save new moms’ lives

They hope to help OB-GYNs and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that red flags can be assessed before they are life-threatening.

6 years ago

Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facilityyt, provides people with clean injection supplies. Photo by Elana Gordon, WHYY
Addiction
Philadelphia

Judge to hear nuts and bolts of how Philly supervised injection site would work

Lawyers for Safehouse will lay out how the supervised injection facility would operate. It’s the first hearing since federal prosecutors filed suit.

6 years ago

A worker picks blueberries at a farm in
The Why
Environment
Government Accountability
New Jersey

Trouble in the ‘Blueberry Capital of the World’

Some South Jersey blueberry farms were recently cited for illegally housing migrant workers in sheds without proper septic systems — for years.

Air Date: August 19, 2019

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A South African patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis waits to be seen by a doctor at a Johannesburg hospital. (Michele Spatari /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Medicine

New drug could be game changer for drug-resistant TB. But a question looms

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis take many pills over a long period of time. Cure rate is low.

6 years ago

Vaping has been linked to a cluster of hospitalizations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. (sestovic/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Safety

What’s behind a cluster of vaping-related hospitalizations?

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has confirmed 15 cases of patients who were admitted to Wisconsin hospitals with severe lung injury since July.

6 years ago

Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health outcomes and rising costs they say will come from sweeping changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance. Saavedra is convinced that if new Trump administration criteria were in effect for her parents three decades ago, she wouldn’t have become a pediatrician. (Amr Alfiky/AP Photo)
Immigration
Medicine

Advocates already see fallout from immigration rule change

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

6 years ago

The state has developed a demographic snapshot of those who died of drug overdoses in 2017. It will be used to try to reduce future opioid-related deaths. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
Delaware

4 takeaways from Delaware’s most comprehensive overdose death study

The state has developed a demographic snapshot of those who died of drug overdoses in 2017. It will be used to try to reduce future opioid-related deaths.

6 years ago

Liz Tung, at 3 years old, pretends to be on television using a cardboard box. (Image courtesy of Liz Tung)
The Pulse
Behavioral Health

Rediscovering fun: Why grown-ups need to play

Playing doesn't end with childhood. It's important for adults too, just in a different way.

6 years ago

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