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Environment

FDA bans use of 7 synthetic food additives after environmental groups sue

"...the petitioners provided evidence that these substances caused cancer in animals who were exposed to much higher doses," the FDA statement says.

8 years ago

An organizer for the Democratic Socialists of America, second from left in red shirt, coaches sex workers and allies before they canvass for Julia Salazar, who is running for a seat in the New York State Senate. Salazar supports decriminalizing sex work and repealing laws that target people in the sex industry. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
Philadelphia
Public Health

At Philly health and re-entry conference, activists tout benefits of decriminalizing sex work

Poor health care and criminalization of sex workers feed into each other to create a cycle, says an organizer with Project SAFE Philadelphia.

8 years ago

Antibiotics are widely overprescribed for the common cold. Doctors' concern for patient satisfaction ratings may be one reason. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NPR
Health Care
Home & Family
Medicine

Patients give doctors high marks for prescribing antibiotics for common sniffles

Doctors are often rated on Yelp or other online platforms.

8 years ago

NPR
Gender
Mental Health

Sexual assault and harassment may have lasting health repercussions for women

The trauma of sexual assault or harassment is not only hard to forget; it may also leave lasting effects on a woman's health.

8 years ago

Delaware's Department of Health and Social Services Secretary Kara Odom Walker outlines the state's new effort to connect victims of substance abuse with social services provided by the state. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Addiction
Delaware

Delaware trying to connect those struggling with substance use to social services

The effort launches as just 38 percent of Delawareans who are diagnosed with substance abuse make it into treatment.

8 years ago

The blue vending machine on display Tuesday, Oct 2, 2018 in Head House Square in Philadelphia. (Nine Feldman/WHYY)

Publicity stunt promotes medical marijuana as alternative treatment for opioid addiction

People walking in Philadelphia’s Head House Square encountered an unusual interruption on Tuesday – a bright blue vending machine ...

8 years ago

Sanitation workers clear away mounds of garbage from a heroin encampment at Lehigh and Kensington avenues. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philadelphia wary of Hepatitis A outbreak as Kensington homeless population grows

The disease is usually spread through contaminated feces.

8 years ago

Dr. Paul Farmer examines a tuberculosis patient in Monrovia, Liberia. (Katherine Kralievits / PIH)
NPR
International

Is the world finally ready to end the deadliest infectious disease?

Maybe the short answer is: We need a better imagination?

8 years ago

Drexel University professors Michael Yudell and Chloe Silverman have decided to study engagement between autism researchers and the autism community to see how that impacts scientific research. (Provided)
Behavioral Health
Public Health

Drexel profs studying how engaging with the autism community could lead to better research

A three-year study will investigate to what extent autism researchers include stakeholder groups in the design phase, and whether that affects what research is done.

8 years ago

Acupuncture
The Pulse
Behavioral Health

Different Country, Different Medicine

Medicine, healthcare — even illness — vary from country to country. Those differences are driven by tradition, culture, even politics ...

Air Date: September 28, 2018

Listen 48:25
Credit: Li Tin Nok
The Pulse
Health Care
International
Medicine

Acupuncture: real relief or theatrical placebo?

Alan Yu heads home to Hong Kong to investigate the ways acupuncture is used in the medical system there.

8 years ago

Listen 13:20
Sidlappa, who goes by one name, is 58 years old and waiting to get an angiogram. He traveled 8 hours to the hospital in Bangalore with his wife Ramlingamma and two of his seven children. (Mary-Rose Abraham)
The Pulse
Health Care
International

At hospitals in India, waiting family become health care helpers

Visitors line the hallways — even sleep on the floor — anxious for loved ones to recover. Noora Health trains overflow family to care for patients once they return home.

8 years ago

Listen 5:58
Don Tollefson (Battling Opioids)
Addiction
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Former Philly sportscaster Don Tollefson tries his hand helping others seek addiction treatment

Disgraced former Philly sportscaster Don Tollefson is trying to pay it forward.

8 years ago

Listen 5:16
In this April 2, 2018 photo, pharmacist Steve Protzel poses for photos holding a bottle of OxyContin at Daniel's Pharmacy in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Radio Times
Addiction
Health Care

The roots of the overdose crisis

Guests: Beth Macy, Aubrey Whelan A “bad batch” of drugs, most likely a mix of heroine, fentanyl and K2, kille ...

Air Date: September 26, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:56
Photomicrograph of a sputum sample containing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB can be seen in red. (photo via CDC Public Health Image Library)
Delaware
K-12

Dozens possibly exposed to tuberculosis at Delaware school

Public health officials say dozens of people have been have been exposed to active tuberculosis at an elementary school in southern Delaw ...

8 years ago

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