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Health

The treatment room of the Diabetes Relief Center in the South Bronx. The clinic says its treatment can help ease complications related to diabetes. (Miamichelle Abad)
The Pulse

'This isn't science'

How an unproven diabetes treatment has a found a home in the Bronx

8 years ago

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Photo: Kristen Cabrera
The Pulse

The Cost of Diabetes

Diabetes costs more healthcare dollars than any other disease in the United States. But beyond the huge financial price tag — diabetes ...

Air Date: April 27, 2018

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Center City's first cannabis dispensary will open at 12th and Sansom streets.
NewsWorks Tonight
Business
Medicine
Philadelphia

Center City’s first pot dispensary set to open this fall

Until now, any operating dispensaries have been in the suburbs.

8 years ago

Catherine Price has Type I diabetes, Keysha Brooker has Type II. Over the course of an hour, they shared with one another how diabetes has defined them and impacted their lives. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health Care
Medicine
Mental Health

How diabetes has shaped my life — two perspectives

Catherine Price has Type 1 diabetes; Keysha Brooker has Type 2. As part of The Pulse’s “The Cost of Diabetes” episode, we invited them to our studio to meet.

8 years ago

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The Cabrera family say their goodbyes after an evening of discussing their diabetes complications in their late parent’s house. (Kristen Cabrera/WHYY)
The Pulse
Home & Family
Race & Ethnicity

DNA, diabetes and family destiny

Diabetes runs is Kristen Cabrera’s family. Her dad, plus seven aunts and uncles have the illness. She gathered them at home in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley to talk about it.

8 years ago

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Bryan Kennedy of Independence Lodge recovery house talks at a community outreach event in Bristol Monday night.
Addiction
Housing
Pennsylvania

Bucks recovery houses striving to be better neighbors

At community outreach in Bristol Township, recovery home residents invite residents to hear how the homes work — and how important they are to those fighting addictions.

8 years ago

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The new exemptions will mostly apply to penalty payments tied to 2018 taxes and to the previous two years. (PeopleImages/Getty Images)
NPR
Health Care
Politics
Taxes

4 new exemptions to the tax penalty for lacking health insurance

The penalty for not having health insurance in 2018 is the greater of $695 or 2.5 percent of household income.

8 years ago

In this June 6, 2017 file photo, a reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington Va. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo, File)
Addiction
Philadelphia

Philly overdose deaths surged past 1,200 in 2017. The reason? Fentanyl

“Fentanyl has taken over from heroin as the number one drug that’s killing people in Philadelphia today,” said Health Commissioner Thomas Farley.

8 years ago

The Ruth Williams House at Broad and Boston Streets in Philadelphia has 88 units for those in need of affordable housing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Housing
Philadelphia
Public Health

Project Home unveils new housing in North Philly for those in recovery

The Ruth Williams House’s 88 new units are reserved for those who have been homeless or are at risk of becoming homeless.

8 years ago

This longhorned tick was discovered on a farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in November.  (Photo courtesy N.J. Department of Agriculture)
Environment
New Jersey

Invasive tick species found last year in New Jersey survived winter

The longhorned tick is known to transmit diseases in East Asia, but no disease has been detected in the ones found in Hunterdon County.

8 years ago

A sample of cannabidiol (CBD) oil is dropped into water. Supplements containing the marijuana extract are popular and widely sold as remedies for a variety of ailments and aches. But scientific evidence that they work hasn't yet caught up for most applications, researchers say. (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images)
NPR
Medicine
Mental Health

Anxiety relief without the high: New studies on CBD, a cannabis extract

As more states legalize marijuana, there's growing interest in a cannabis extract — cannabidiol, also known as CBD.

8 years ago

A homeless person takes shelter under an overpass on North 5th Street.
Addiction
Philadelphia

Amid Pa. opioid disaster, lacking ID still a barrier to treatment

It's not easy to hold onto your possessions when you're living on the street, and that also goes for your license or birth certificate.

8 years ago

5,500 U.S. youths ages 12 to 17, about 6 percent say they've engaged in some sort of digital self-harm. More than half in that subgroup say they've bullied themselves this way more than once.
(Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)
NPR
Home & Family
Kids
Technology

When teens cyberbully themselves

They're anonymously posting mean and derogatory comments about themselves on social media.

8 years ago

National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
Mental Health
Public Safety

After air accidents, survivors grapple with flying again

Plane crashes are rare, but when they happen, people often survive them.

8 years ago

Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Moving Past Outrage Fatigue

The current political atmosphere has many people feeling distressed. What’s the best way to cope with our emotions when we’re outrage ...

Air Date: April 20, 2018

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