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Mehnaz sits inside her home in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan. She has one son and six daughters. She has also had three abortions, fearing she would have more girls. (Diaa Hadid/NPR)
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Biology
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International

Why the abortion rate in Pakistan is one of the world’s highest

Most of the women who seek abortions are married, poor and already have children.

8 years ago

Water pours from a faucet.
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Health effects uncertain, high toxin levels found in blood of residents near military bases

Blood tests for more than 230 residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties have come back showing high levels of a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

8 years ago

In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Polly Varnado looks at her daughter's Medtronic insulin pump in Destin, Fla. Medical device manufacturers and experts say insulin pumps are safe. But an AP investigation found that insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest number of malfunction, injury and death reports in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s medical device database.  (Holbrook Mohr/AP Photo)
Government Accountability
Health Care
National

Insulin pumps have most reported problems in FDA database

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

8 years ago

Romaine lettuce is seen on sale at a supermarket in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning against all romaine lettuce just two days before Thanksgiving. Now the CDC has narrowed the source of the outbreak to California's central coast (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Food & Drink
National

Some romaine is fine to eat, but beware California, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.

8 years ago

Liliana Czegledi holds a photo of her daughter, Ioana, at her home in the village of Sînandrei in western Romania. Ioana was just shy of her 10th birthday when she died of complications from measles. She could not be vaccinated because she had a compromised immune system. (Joanna Kakissis for NPR)
NPR
International

The story behind the worst Measles outbreak in the European Union

Measles is a serious disease in poor countries, which account for most of the 173,000 infections recorded globally in 2017.

8 years ago

More than half of all counties in the 39 states that rely on the federal HealthCare.gov exchange for ACA health insurance are experiencing a 10 percent price decrease, on average, for their cheapest plan for 2019. (Patrick Sison/AP)
NPR
Health Care

Many who buy ACA health plans for 2019 find lower prices and more choice

8 years ago

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

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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

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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.

8 years ago

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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

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