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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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The Wharton School of Business on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
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Higher Education
Mental Health

College campuses failing to fully decode mental illness

Academia, known at times for fostering innovation and creativity, is also casually slow and bureaucratic when it comes to implementing much-needed radical change.

8 years ago

A woman gets an injection in her upper arm
Delaware
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Flu season strikes early in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

Flu season is off to an early start this year. Experts say it’s time to get a flu shot, if you haven’t already, because numbers could peak even more around the holidays.

8 years ago

Paul Butler works at the 24-hour hotline at the main psychiatric hospital in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Behavioral Health

Crisis averted: scenes from the nation’s 24-hour helpline

The call came in late one summer night. Immediately, Paul Butler’s stomach sank, his heart sped up and he started listening.

8 years ago

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Students walk past Samuel Paley Library on the Temple University campus, where a student died of a drug overdose on Dec. 1.
Health Care
Higher Education
Philadelphia

After five Temple deaths, students call university’s counseling services inadequate

The university’s director of counseling services says the university's counseling staff is enough to meet the needs of Temple's students.

8 years ago

*** FILE *** Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa, Dr. Michael DeBakey of Huston, Tex. center, USA, and Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz of Brooklyn, N.Y., right, confer Dec. 24, 1967 in Washington, before appearing on the CBS television program
Health Care
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

In 50 years, heart transplant surgery hasn’t changed significantly

One million people have end-stage heart failure in North America, and only about 2,400 transplants occur each year due to a lack of viable hearts.

8 years ago

Building 10 at Norristown State Hospital

Pa. DHS lags on efforts to provide residential treatment for mentally ill defendants

The state has fallen behind on federal court settlements requiring it to provide residential psychiatric treatment to those deemed incompetent to stand trial.

8 years ago

Lacey Kohlmoos, with her son Finn, and Samantha Matlin, with children Olivia, 4, and Logan, 2, campaigned for lactation facilities at 30th Street Station.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Breast-feeding Philly moms push for accommodations to pump at train stations

“Women should not have to feed their child, whether it's nursing or pumping, while sitting on a dirty toilet,” said Lacey Kohlmoos, the woman who created the online petition.

8 years ago

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Acting Secretary of Health and Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine announces new safe guidelines for prescribing opioids to children.
Addiction

Pa. sets new guidelines for prescribing opioids to kids

The guidelines are the latest in a series the state has adopted to advise doctors in different medical specialties.

8 years ago

Christopher Harris was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s. He was told he would live about a year. An early member of the Atlanta Buyers Club, he's now 73 and has a daughter and three grandchildren. (StoryCorps)
NPR
History
Medicine

How a slip of paper impacted an AIDS diagnosis

Christopher Harris was diagnosed with AIDS in the 1980s. At the time, there was only one drug approved for treatment, and the diagnosis often meant a death sentence.

8 years ago

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

Cooper Health specialist: Time to treat opioid addiction like a disease — with medicine

“Opioid epidemic.” The phrase has become ingrained in American public discourse, at candidate debates and community meetings, and in ...

8 years ago

“Stress and trauma is not an individual issue, it's a familial and societal issue,” says a child and adolescent psychiatrist who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.(Anastasia_Vish/Bigstock)
Mental Health

Can trauma be passed down by generation?

A new study by researchers from Scandinavia and Johns Hopkins University offers surprising results about the daughters of parents who've experienced trauma.

8 years ago

Roy Hamilton runs the laboratory for cognition and neural stimulation at the University of Pennsylvania.
 (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Medicine

Following a stroke, finding the words can be a lifelong endeavor

Science owes a lot to aphasia and what it reveals about how language works. But many worry it has been widely misunderstood, leading to missed recovery opportunities.

8 years ago

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Charlie White (center), 12th grade student at Sayre, practices applying compression to a wound on a mannequin, while Danny Miles (right) and Kayla Fryer (left), look on. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

Penn doctors teach West Philly students how to ‘Stop the Bleed’ and save lives

“Stop the Bleed” is a national campaign aimed at teaching everyday people how to help someone who has been shot or stabbed.

8 years ago

Listen 2:32
Radio Times
Medicine
Politics

The uncertain future of CHIP

The future of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, remains uncertain. Congress is fighting over how to pay for the ...

8 years ago

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Adele is the mother of a friend who became like a second mother to the author.
Speak Easy
Aging
Home & Family

Gaining a second mother, then learning to let her go

I had lost my own mother to dementia years ago and know the signs. It's as if Adele, at 92, is in a holding pattern. No longer “here,” but not yet gone.

8 years ago

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