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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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A sign for Crozer Health is visible in the foreground, with buildings in the background.
Business
Health Care
Pennsylvania

ChristianaCare backs out of deal to buy Crozer Health from Prospect Medical Holdings

Crozer is planning to return to nonprofit status as it seeks to evaluate the services that it offers at its hospitals.

3 years ago

A hydraulic fracturing drill rig in Bradford County
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Children living near Pa. fracking sites are at increased risk of leukemia, study finds

The research adds to a growing body of work on the health impacts of oil and gas drilling and bolsters arguments by public health advocates for greater oversight.

3 years ago

The city was supposed to receive more than 3,600 vials, but will instead receive just over 700 vials after the FDA announced a strategy to conserve vaccine doses. (6abc)
Medicine
Philadelphia
Public Health

Thousands of monkeypox vaccines no longer coming to Philly, as city rethinks prevention strategy

The federal government has reduced the local allocation to about 720 vials of vaccine.

3 years ago

A visitor checks in at a pop-up monkeypox vaccination site in California.
Health Care
LGBTQ
Medicine
Public Health

How should we talk about monkeypox? Local experts say tailoring public health messaging is a balancing act

Monkeypox has sparked a debate on how to recognize its disproportionate impact on LGBTQ communities in a non-stigmatizing way.

3 years ago

A pharmacist loads a syringe with the monkeypox vaccine
NPR
Animals
Public Health

How to keep your pets safe from monkeypox — and what to do if they get it

Animal carriers of the virus include various rodents, dogs, primates, hedgehogs and shrews, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

3 years ago

Close-up Of A Woman's Hand Inserting Hearing Aid In Her Ear
Aging
Health Care
Public Health

Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in U.S.

Millions of Americans will be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription later this fall, under a long-awaited rule finalized Tuesday.

3 years ago

A package of Aviane birth control pills
NPR
National
Public Health

Title X advocates worry that birth control may go the same way as abortion

A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care.

3 years ago

FILE - President Joe Biden looks at his grandson Beau Biden as first lady Jill Biden waves and walks to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Aug. 10, 2022. First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing ‘mild symptoms’ the White House announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Health Care
Public Health

Jill Biden tests positive for COVID-19, has ‘mild’ symptoms

She had been vacationing with President Joe Biden in South Carolina when she began experiencing symptoms on Monday.

3 years ago

Two people holds a pink balloon in front of a pile of burnt wreckage.
NPR
Gender
Health Care
LGBTQ

How gender-affirming care may be impacted when clinics that offer abortions close

After a Planned Parenthood in Knoxville, Tenn., burned down in January, patients relying on gender-affirming care scrambled to find support elsewhere.

3 years ago

(Max Posner/NPR)
NPR
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

Coronavirus FAQ: I’m confused by the new testing advice! Do it once, twice … thrice?

The FDA issued revised guidance about how often to test after exposure to someone with COVID or after symptoms occur. It's not exactly the same as what the CDC says.

3 years ago

FILE - This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File)
Infrastructure
Public Health

Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating

It is another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday.

3 years ago

Sign for Crozer Health
Behavioral Health
Health Care
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Delco reaches agreement with Crozer Health to keep behavioral health services intact

The agreement does not include the restoration of other shuttered services and units within the hospitals.

3 years ago

FILE - Boxes of BinaxNow home COVID-19 tests made by Abbott displayed for sale next to liquid hand soap at a CVS store in Lakewood, Wash., Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. People screening themselves at home for COVID-19 may need to use three rapid tests to accurately detect the virus, according to new U.S. recommendations released Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, that call for a longer testing period. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Health Care
Public Health

FDA: Take 3 home tests if exposed to COVID to boost accuracy

They say new studies suggest taking two tests can miss too many infections, and could result in people spreading COVID to others, especially if they don't develop symptoms.

3 years ago

The Pulse
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

From Polio to COVID — the Evolution of Intensive Care

The modern ICU, or Intensive Care Unit, was born out of a time of crisis. It was 1952, and polio was raging in many places — especially ...

Air Date: August 12, 2022

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Abortion-rights activists setup an abortion pills educational booth as they protest outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, July 4, 2022. The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years, a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Health Care
New Jersey
Public Health

Demand for online abortion services increases, as coverage expands to New Jersey

Online providers say much of the demand has come from patients in states where abortion is now restricted.

3 years ago

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