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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Doctors often prescribe more opioid painkillers than necessary following surgery, for a variety of reasons. (Education Images/UIG via Getty Images)
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Questioning a doctor’s prescription for a sore knee: 90 Percocets

As public health officials grapple with how to slow the growing opioid epidemic, the over-prescription of narcotics after even minor surgery is coming under new scrutiny.

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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)
New Jersey

New Jersey provides $5M to help pregnant women recover from opioid addiction

As a live-in, residential program, A Place to Call Home will support pregnant women and new mothers struggling with addiction to opioids.

8 years ago

A casket is carried up Kensington Avenue Thursday during the March in Black in remembrance of those who have died of opioid overdoses in the Philadelphia region. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
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New study rates Pa.’s opioid overdose death rate as sixth highest in the nation

Well Being Trust, a national foundation focused on the mental health of America, ranked Pennsylvania’s opioid overdose death rate as the sixth highest in the nation.

8 years ago

CHIP covers healthcare for almost 200,000 children. But this year, its reauthorization became entangled in a debate over whether to cover gender confirmation surgery. (AP)
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Pennsylvania

Pa. House passes ‘clean’ CHIP renewal, without ban on transgender coverage

The routine bill became controversial this year, because the Senate inserted language that would have prohibited CHIP from covering transgender kids' transition surgeries.

8 years ago

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New Jersey

New Jersey moves toward legalizing recreational pot, but pace uncertain

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy's administration promises to be markedly different from that of Gov. Chris Christie, who will leave office in January after two terms.

8 years ago

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This photo provided by Genentech, Inc. shows a package of the drug Hemlibra. On Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved Hemlibra, the first new treatment in nearly two decades to prevent internal bleeding in certain patients with hemophilia, an inherited blood-clotting disorder. (Genentech, Inc. via AP)
Medicine

FDA OKs new therapy for some hemophilia patients

U.S. regulators have approved the first new treatment in nearly two decades to prevent internal bleeding in certain patients with hemophilia.

8 years ago

A University of Delaware study has found a 6 percent decline in the number of Delaware primary care doctors providing direct patient care from 2013 to 2018. (Rick Bowmer/AP, file)
Insurance
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania wrestles with uncertainty over children’s health insurance funding

The Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, provides health coverage to millions of kids nationwide. But lawmakers have yet to reauthorize it.

8 years ago

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Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly summit tackles childhood lead poisoning

City officials and advocates for children’s health gathered Friday at a conference aimed at helping Philadelphia advance measures to reduce lead exposure in homes.

8 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Gov. and former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge speaks during a campaign event in Peterborough, N.H in this 2012 file photo. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Aging
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Former Pa. Gov. Tom Ridge recovering from heart attack

The wife of former U.S. Homeland Security Secretary and Pa. Governor Tom Ridge says he's in the early stages of recovery.

8 years ago

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Gender
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New program offers peer support to women transitioning out of prison

Transitioning out of prison is a difficult process, and for women, it can be even harder, especially with a lack of services geared specifically toward them.

8 years ago

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Aaron Carroll’s ‘Bad Food Bible’

Guest: Aaron Carroll Is salt good or bad for you? What about saturated fat or eggs? Should I eat gluten? Do coffe ...

Air Date: November 17, 2017

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Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson meets with Pat Vitkow, a patient with ALS. (Joel Wolfram for WHYY)

At ALS clinic, supporting mental health care not an afterthought

Living with ALS is an extraordinary psychological challenge, and at this clinic, mental health services are integrated into patients’ medical care.

8 years ago

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The complicated ‘science’ of individual Communion cups

Individual communion cups were supposed to be about protection from germs. But a look back shows Americans had other reasons to stop sharing a communion cup.

8 years ago

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Mental Health

Pursuing Happiness

Happiness is more than the feeling you get after eating a delicious meal. But what is happiness? On this Voices in the Family special, Dr ...

Air Date: November 16, 2017

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Some legislation under consideration in Congress focuses on the safe disposal of prescription opioids. (AP file photo)
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The roots of the opioid epidemic

Guests: Keith Wailoo, Lenny Bernstein Pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, doctors, drug stores and illeg ...

Air Date: November 16, 2017

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