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London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced a ban on junk food advertisements across the city's transportation network on Friday. The new rules will take effect on Feb. 25, 2019. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
International
Transportation

Mind the junk food: London to ban ads for unhealthy eats on public transportation

7 years ago

Ochsner Baptist Hospital in New Orleans hasn't needed device reps' help since it started using technology from a company called Sight Medical that handles inventory management.
(Courtesy of Sight Medical)
NPR
Health Care
Medicine

Sales reps may be wearing out their welcome in the operating room

In the operating room, surgical masks and matching scrubs can make it hard to tell who's who — at least for outsiders.

7 years ago

Residences leveled by the Camp Fire line a cul-de-sac in Paradise, Calif., earlier this month. A massive federal report says climate change is contributing to larger wildfires as well as other deadly extreme weather.
(Noah Berger/AP)
NPR
Environment

Climate change is already hurting U.S. communities, federal report says

The fourth National Climate Assessment is the culmination of years of research and analysis by hundreds of top climate scientists in the country.

7 years ago

Investigators who are trying to track down the source of E. coli in romaine lettuce have seen this before. They're tracking the exact strain of bacteria that caused a small outbreak a year ago. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink

Investigators tracking latest romaine lettuce outbreak are feeling some deja vu

Over the past six weeks, at least 50 people in the U.S. and Canada have gone to the doctor suffering from the symptoms of food poisoning.

7 years ago

Anesthesiologist Kevin Guynn M.D greets a pre-med student at Temple University's An Evening with Black Men in Medicine event. (Brad  Larrison for WHYY)
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Temple brings black men in medicine together to boost doctors of color

Temple University’s medical school gathered black physicians and young African-American men who are considering medicine.

7 years ago

Water pours from a faucet.
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State to hold public meeting on PFAS contamination

The meeting will be held Friday, November 30 at 9am the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg and will also be live-streamed online.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Environment
Food & Drink

How hippie food became mainstream

Guests: Jonathan Kauffman, Judy Wicks Yogurt, brown rice, tofu, soy sauce — a lot of American’s modern mainst ...

Air Date: November 21, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Surgeons at work during a surgery.

Philly doctors join national debate with NRA over gun safety

Dr. Samir Mehta treats a lot of gunshot victims. He doesn’t always see them in a crisis setting, like an ER doctor would, but he’s dealing with the long-term impacts.

7 years ago

(Bigstock photo)
Radio Times
Biology
Mental Health

Sleepless in America

Guests: Sigrid Veasey, Ilene Rosen, Lauren Hale Getting a bad night’s sleep feels awful. And in recent years we ...

Air Date: November 19, 2018 12:00 am

Listen 46:27
A firefighter searches a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire on Friday Paradise, Calif. (John Locher/AP)
NPR
Environment
National
Public Safety

California offers safe space for firefighters to work through stress and trauma

Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.

7 years ago

Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to detect if a user might be about engage in self-harm. The same technology may soon be used in other scenarios. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
NPR
Behavioral Health
Media

Facebook increasingly reliant on A.I. to predict suicide risk

A year ago, Facebook started using artificial intelligence to scan people's accounts for danger signs of imminent self-harm.

7 years ago

Becky Shaw's first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage in 2014. The following year, she and her husband, Ben, had Parker, their
NPR
Health Care
Home & Family
Kids

Michelle Obama’s miscarriage story may help other women share theirs

7 years ago

Preventable hospital admissions are down 25 percent in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Health Care
Philadelphia

Penn Medicine and IBX say they cut readmissions 25 percent

Harlan Krumholz ...

7 years ago

The Pulse
Home & Family
Mental Health
Religion

We’re Family — But Why?

Ever sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, look around at the shining faces of your family, and think to yourself: “How the heck am I relate ...

Air Date: November 16, 2018

Listen 47:22
The city of Philadelphia is once again clearing out camps of people in Kensington like the one at Frankford and Lehigh Avenues. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Addiction
Homelessness

As Philly clears another encampment, what happened to homeless in previous sweep?

On Monday afternoon, a row of tents ran end to end in the Frankford Avenue underpass just north of Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia’s Kens ...

7 years ago

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