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Health

Doctors in Miami found that a man's tattoo expressing his end-of-life wishes was more confusing than helpful.
(Gregory Holt/The New England Journal of Medicine)
NPR

When a tattoo means life or death. Literally.

The tattoo stretched across the man's chest. It said "Do Not Resuscitate." His signature was tattooed at the end.

8 years ago

NPR
Gender
Politics

Before ‘Roe v. Wade,’ the women of ‘Jane’ provided abortions for the women of Chicago

Ultimately, Roe vs. Wade brought an end to Jane because women then had access to legal abortion providers.

8 years ago

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
Speak Easy

International medical travelers a boon to Philadelphia

The Philadelphia region boasts more than 20 universities and colleges, as well as five medical schools and schools of nursing and health care administration.

8 years ago

The Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in the evening in Washington
Behavioral Health
Health Care
Mental Health

Local specialists echo national concerns over ending behavioral health registry

Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump at the podium
NewsWorks Tonight
Addiction

Local addiction specialists still waiting for federal support to trickle down

Elana Gordon, a reporter for WHYY’s The Pulse, joined NewsWorks Tonight to weigh in on the local response to federal action.

8 years ago

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Singer/songwriter Sam Baker (right) sits with 16-year-old Andrew Hart, who suffers from severe depression, and has struggled with homelessness and abuse. He taught himself to play the guitar.
NewsWorks Tonight
Behavioral Health
Music

Musician visits Pa. school to help kids find their way beyond trauma

Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.

8 years ago

Listen 1:50
Philadelphia City Solicitor Sozi Tulante.
Addiction
Law
Philadelphia

Philly targets big pharma in suit over opioid epidemic

'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.

8 years ago

A mailing from insurer Aetna breached the privacy of thousands of HIV positive members.
NewsWorks Tonight
Insurance
Medicine

Aetna agrees to pay $17M in massive HIV privacy breach

Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.

8 years ago

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Luke Dunn and Nick Hale spend their winter days driving around Kensington trying to get homeless people into shelter.
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Homelessness

Homeless shelter planned for opioid-afflicted Kensington won’t be ready this winter

The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.

8 years ago

Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly after childbirth.
NPR
Income Inequality
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

Making the case that discrimination is bad for your health

Arline Geronimus coined the term 'weathering' to describe how health problems of marginalized people can be caused by stresses of their daily life.

8 years ago

New Jersey and Delaware have  state-supported needle exchange programs to cut down on the transmission of diseases. (WHYY, file)
Behavioral Health
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Harm reduction leaders call on Gov. Wolf to make needle exchanges legal in Pa.

In the wake of the emergency declaration, harm reduction leaders are calling on Gov. Wolf to make needle exchanges legal in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

Penn Medicine's latest acquisition in Plainsboro, New Jersey, will be known as Penn Medicine Princeton Health. (Penn Medicine rendering)
Medicine
New Jersey
Philadelphia

Amid regulatory uncertainty, Penn Medicine acquires Princeton HealthCare

The University Medical Center of Princeton will become the sixth hospital in the University of Pennsylvania Health System.

8 years ago

The Pulse

Making Cities Work

By 2030 about 60 percent of people will live in urban centers. We flock to cities for their energy and op ...

Air Date: January 12, 2018

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Behavioral Health
New Jersey

Horizon’s new partnership aims to better integrate mental health needs into care

New Jersey’s largest insurance provider, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, has signed a $1.5 million contract with the New York tech startup, Quartet.

8 years ago

Donna Morgan, (left), stands with a picture of her daughter Brittany who died of a heroin overdose in May 2017 along with her son Nathan and friend Robin D'Angleo whose son is in recovery for heroin addiction. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
Addiction
Pennsylvania

Wolf opioid order could open door to better treatment, prevention in Philadelphia

Stephen Lankenau, a professor of Community Health and Prevention at Drexel University, spoke with WHYY's Jennifer Lynn about Gov. Wolf's disaster emergency declaration for Pa.

8 years ago

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