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 Genspace Lab Manager Will Shindel passes out pipette tips to the students while explaining their lab protocol for the day. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse

How a gene editing tool went from labs to a middle school classroom

It seems just like yesterday that the gene editing tool called CRISPR Cas9 burst into the science community with seemingly endless option ...

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Participants in the Survivors Parade of Pink and Salute to Forever Fighters wave to supporters on Eakins Oval during the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure event.
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Race for the Cure draws thousands, raises millions

Thousands gathered on Eakins Oval Mother’s Day for the 27th Annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. Families and friends gathered to w ...

9 years ago

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Radio Times
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Fraternity hazing culture

Guests: Doug Fierberg, Gentry McCreary 18 members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Penn State University face c ...

Air Date: May 12, 2017

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Delaware
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Kids

‘Driving’ to Delaware operating room gets kids revved up for dental surgery

Miniature vehicles are helping a Wilmington, Delaware, clinic ease fear before surgery and cut down on medication. Four-year-old D ...

9 years ago

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 The author is shown with her son, Kent. (Courtesy of Joyanna Wentzel)
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Home & Family
Medicine

A precarious 101 days for a premature baby

When I went to the doctor on a cold November evening to find out whether I was having a boy or a girl, the last thing I was expecting to ...

9 years ago

 David Dorschu and Deni Carise with Recovery Centers of America standing in a room at the Lighthouse at Mays Landing, a treatment center the company flipped for $1.25 million last year. (Laura Benshoff/WHYY)
The Pulse

From ’80s to now: Waves of investment in drug treatment can help, hurt patients

Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

9 years ago

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Medicine
Technology

A newborn boy with a genetic heart condition; a father’s joy and dread

On Aug. 10, 2016, less than one month before my wife Kate was due to give birth to our second child, she and I received news that would change our lives forever.

9 years ago

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds a 49-day-old baby boy being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
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Medicine
New Jersey

Christie: Doctors key to cutting through opioid epidemic — yet some share blame

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s latest stop on a state-wide anti-opioid abuse tour was on Monday, in Princeton. Nearly 200 health ...

9 years ago

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Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Can negative people learn to look on the bright side?

Most of us know somebody who is always negative – predicting worst-case scenarios, seeing only what wen ...

Air Date: May 1, 2017

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 Carolina Garzon and her baby, Emma. (Alex Stern/WHYY)
The Pulse

How one mom got through losing her first pregnancy

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

9 years ago

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 Bioengineer Nancy Pleshko ordered takeout from an Italian restaurant on her way from her lab at Temple University to her home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This is what she and her two teenage children at home have for dinner around once a week, to save time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Social Justice

The ‘baby penalty’ often sidelines female scientists

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

9 years ago

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 Dr. John Zimmerly reassures one of his pregnant patients, Kim. (Elizabeth Fiedler/WHYY)
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Lack of doctors puts rural mothers and babies at risk

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...

9 years ago

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 Students and faculty from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy answer questions about filling orders for Naloxone from David Ostrow at Cambria Pharmacy in Fairhill. (Joel Wolfram/for NewsWorks)
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Public Health

Pharmacy students see first hand Philadelphia’s naloxone shortage

Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...

9 years ago

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 The Jackson family has been balancing public and private life after Avery Jackson, 9, was featured on the cover of National Geographic. (Courtesy of Debi Jackson)
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It’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

9 years ago

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 A view of the 'Badlands' of Kensington, Philadelphia. (Courtenay harris Bond)
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Homelessness
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Under the bridge, a world of pain not so far from any of us

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

9 years ago

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