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A man stands at a Wi-Fi hotspot in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria with many cellphone towers down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (Carlos Giusti/AP Photo)
Mental Health
Public Health
Public Safety

Dealing with anxiety, stress while waiting for news from Puerto Rico

For many of the more than 120,000 Puerto Rican Philadelphians, it's been a difficult week as they've been unable to get in touch with their relatives after Hurricane Maria.

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Delaware

Delaware girl diagnosed with swine flu after Maryland fair visit

A Delaware girl who had recently come in close contact with pigs at the Anne Arundel County Fair has been diagnosed with swine flu.

8 years ago

Nine-month-old Aarav Vyas (right) wears a shirt with the slogan ''I sleep with this side up.'' He and his mother, Aasta Mehta, along with Jasmine Pitt-Mitchell and her 6-month-daughter, Leilani (left) helped to kick off Philadelphia's safe sleeping campaign. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Behavioral Health
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Kids
Philadelphia

Philly launches effort to prevent infant sleeping deaths

Each year, 30 infants die sleep-related deaths in Philadelphia, that’s part of why the city’s infant mortality rate is worse ...

8 years ago

Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Magnets! How do they work (for people with anxiety)?

A combination of older and newer treatments had the best results for patients in a recent study on anxiety. Researchers at a German ...

Air Date: September 25, 2017

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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)
Behavioral Health
Delaware
Medicine
Public Health

Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000.

8 years ago

Mary Jo Groves, a medical doctor from Springfield, Ohio, attends a rally hosted by The Mad As Hell Doctors tour to raise support for health care reform and a single payer system, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at Lafayette Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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Business
Home & Family
Medicine

Dems line up behind Medicare-for-all, GOP tries to repeal ACA

Guests: Jeff Stein, Walter Tsou, Micah Weinberg When Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer healthcare bil ...

Air Date: September 22, 2017

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Joshua Redner, a Pennsbury High School graduate, died of a heroin overdose last week. His mother. Jacqueline Redner, is president of the Pennsbury school board. (Provided)
Behavioral Health

After overdose deaths, Bucks district approves plan to offer drug counseling in schools

A Bucks County school district is launching an effort to combat the opioid epidemic by putting drug counselors in schools. The Pen ...

8 years ago

 In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, a U.S. flag flies at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba. U.S. investigators are chasing many theories about what’s harming American diplomats in Cuba, including a sonic attack, electromagnetic weapon or flawed spying device. (Desmond Boylan/AP Photo, File)
International
Medicine
Public Health

Cuba mystery: What theories US investigators are pursuing

There must be an answer. Whatever is harming U.S. diplomats in Havana, it’s eluded the doctors, scientists and intelligence ...

8 years ago

Two students sit on the front porch at one of the three
Behavioral Health
Higher Education
New Jersey

How Rutgers became a national model for helping student addicts in recovery

“More colleges and universities are creating sober living programs for student addicts in recovery, and ma ...

8 years ago

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 Mark Woodall (left), a former state prison inmate and current chef at Cathedral Kitchen, talks about the difficulty of finding permanent shelter during re-entry. With him are (from right) Camden County Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez, Freeholder Director Louis Cappelli Jr., and Volunteers of America Chief Operating Officer Pat McKernan, who announced a new plan to end homelessness. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Homelessness
New Jersey

New initiative coordinates services for homeless in Camden County

At a resource fair for homeless citizens in Camden Wednesday, fair-goers were treated to a hot breakfast, a hot shower if they needed it ...

8 years ago

 Talyah Basit attends the suicide-prevention conference at the War Memorial in Trenton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Behavioral Health

Some N.J. providers embrace suicide-prevention approach that emphasizes screening

In New Jersey, hundreds of health providers turned out to a conference on suicide prevention Tuesday — a gathering organizers say would ...

8 years ago

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Shooting heroin in a vacant lot in Camden. (April Saul/for WHYY)
Behavioral Health
New Jersey

During opioid crisis, Camden leaders put life-saving needle exchange in peril

With a staggering 64,000 Americans killed by drug overdoses last year according to the Centers for Disease Control, needle-exchange progr ...

8 years ago

Voices in the Family
Home & Family
Mental Health

The silence surrounding postpartum depression

Many women who have postpartum depression don’t talk about their condition – and don’t ask for help. That’s accor ...

Air Date: September 11, 2017

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Philly conference on transgender health opens with ceremony commemorating beloved founder

The 16th annual Philadelphia Trans Health Conference kicked off with workshops a ...

8 years ago

 Sarah Fuller (right)died on March 25, 2016 after becoming addicted to a fentanyl pain killer. (Photo courtesy of Deborah Fuller)
Behavioral Health
Medicine
New Jersey
Public Health

New Jersey mom takes story of daughter’s opioid death, role of drug company, to Congress

Deborah Fuller is nervous. The Camden County, New Jersey, resident is going before Congress next week to testify at a hearing on the role ...

8 years ago

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