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Health

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites.
NewsWorks Tonight
Addiction
Philadelphia
Public Health

Debate over Philly’s safe injection site plan gets personal

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites. The debate has infused their conversations, in all hours of the day and night.

7 years ago

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Health Care
Mental Health
Race & Ethnicity

Penn study finds most black men with trauma aren’t getting treatment

Among black men in Philadelphia who’ve suffered traumatic injuries, most psychological symptoms are not treated.

7 years ago

(Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
Health Care
Pennsylvania

Pa. medical marijuana rule change will let patients vape

Soon, medical marijuana patients in Pennsylvania won’t just be limited to taking oils, pills, and liquid forms of the drug.

7 years ago

Sarah Evans, a senior program officer at the Open Society Foundations, speaks to Philadelphia's opioid task force in March 2017 about Vancouver's safe injection site. (Katie Colaneri/WHYY)
Speak Easy
Addiction
Philadelphia
Public Health

Safe injection sites are one answer to the opioid crisis

With 1,200 overdose-related deaths in 2017, Philadelphia is suffering some of the worst effects of the nation’s opioid crisis.

7 years ago

This March 2018 photo shows Kristina Olson in her laboratory in Seattle. She is the creator and leader of the TransYouth Project, which is considered the first large-scale long-term study of transgender children in the U.S. On Thursday, April 12, 2018, Olson was named winner of the NSF's annual Alan T. Waterman Award, the government's highest honor for scientists still in the early phases of their careers. (Dennis Wise/University of Washington via AP)
Gender
Kids
National

$1 million federal grant will help study of transgender kids

The first large-scale, national study of transgender children, including some as young as 3, is poised to expand.

7 years ago

The Pulse

Make (a) Way: Transcript

This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.

7 years ago

Feranmi Okanlami is a doctor at Michigan Medicine and became partially paralyzed after an accident in 2013, during his medical residency. (Courtesy Feranmi Okanlami)
The Pulse
Health Care
Medicine
Mental Health

What does it mean to be a doctor with a disability?

Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.

7 years ago

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Andrea Avery, second from left, playing the piano with a friend when she was 10 years old. (Courtesy of Andrea Avery)
The Pulse
Health Care
Music

Between health and illness

Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.

7 years ago

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Matt Roda takes a test on the Reflexion Edge. (Rachel McDevitt/WITF)
NewsWorks Tonight
Innovation
Technology

How a high school concussion inspired a tech startup

Matt Roda of Lancaster County was a junior in high school when a single hockey game changed his entire life.

7 years ago

A woman holds her 49-day-old grandson who was being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy. The baby was treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New Jersey. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Addiction
Kids

As rate of infants exposed to opioids rises, N.J. urging pregnant substance abusers to get help

Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.

7 years ago

A commission of Pennsylvania lawmakers and state officials is working in Harrisburg to come up with a plan to pay down the state's pension debt. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Speak Easy

Pa. legislation would protect the lives of those deemed undesirable

In the U.S., we’re engaging in a method of eugenics by reducing populations of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.

7 years ago

 (Mary Ann Chastain/AP Photo)
Delaware
Public Health

Three new flu-related deaths in Delaware

Delaware's flu season is not over as evidenced by three new flu-related deaths reported by the Delaware Division of Public Health.

7 years ago

This photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo)
Medicine
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

How a Pa. health system reduced opioid prescriptions by more than half

Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.

7 years ago

Physical therapist Ingrid Peele coaches Kim Brown through strengthening exercises to help her with her chronic pain, at the OSF Central Illinois Pain Center in Peoria. (Kyle Travers/WFYI)
NPR
Medicine
National

For chronic pain, a change in habits can beat opioids for relief

7 years ago

Jacinta Morales learned she was pregnant after she was processed into ICE detention. (Liz Jones/KUOW)
NPR
Immigration
National

Pregnant and detained

Dozens of members of Congress have called for a thorough investigation.

7 years ago

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