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Health

Silhouette of a COVID-19 vaccine being prepared.
Government
Government Accountability
Public Health

Philadelphia achieves near complete compliance with city employee vaccine mandate

The city says nearly all 22,000 workers have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine or have exemption status.

4 years ago

The exterior of Jennersville Hospital in West Grove
Government
Health Care
Pennsylvania

Pa. state senator introduces hospital reform legislation to address ‘destabilizing effect’ from recent closures

The proposed legislation would require hospitals to give notice 180 days and meet a set of regulatory benchmarks before they can close.

4 years ago

Mikayla Jones, 17, a rising senior at Central High School in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of Children First)
K-12
Mental Health
Philadelphia
Public Health

‘We’re just surviving’: Report details COVID’s long-term impacts on Philly students

A report published Monday by Children First shows COVID’s toll on young Philadelphians. Students and child advocates want more school-based services.

4 years ago

Tomeka Kimbrough-Hilson was diagnosed with uterine fibroids in 2006 and underwent surgery to remove a non-cancerous mass. When she started experiencing symptoms again in 2020, she was unable to get an appointment with a gynecologist. Her experience was not uncommon, according to a new poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. (Nicole Buchanan for NPR)
NPR
Health Care
Public Health

A ‘staggering’ number of people couldn’t get care during the pandemic, poll finds

Among households that had a serious illness in the past year, one in five respondents said they had trouble accessing care during the pandemic.

4 years ago

Chestnut Hill Hospital entrance with cars in front of it.
Business
Health Care
Pennsylvania
Public Health
6abc

Temple Health, partners to purchase Chestnut Hill Hospital from Tower Health

Temple Health will manage the facility which will be named Temple Health-Chestnut Hill Hospital following the acquisition.

4 years ago

Dots which show the monkeypox virus cells are orange in a sea of green cells that are infected with the virus.
NPR
Health Care
Infrastructure
Public Health

COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox

Wastewater testing has proved a reliable early alarm bell for COVID-19 outbreaks. U.S. researchers are now adapting the approach to track the explosive spread of monkeypox.

4 years ago

People stand in front of a sign that reads Bebashi.
Philadelphia
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity
Billy Penn

Are Philly’s monkeypox vaccines going mostly to white people? The Health Department won’t yet release data to confirm or deny the rumor

City officials say the sample size is too small to report demographics, but other places do it.

4 years ago

Students walk across grass on a green campus with buildings in the background.
NPR
Health Care
Higher Education
Public Health

How colleges are preparing for a new public health threat: monkeypox

The risk of contracting monkeypox is still low in the U.S., but colleges are already seeing cases.

4 years ago

An overhead shot of the beach in Delaware.
Delaware
Environment
Public Health

Delaware beach bacteria warnings lifted

Delaware environmental officials have lifted an advisory against spending a long time in the water in portions of Rehoboth, Dewey, and Bethany beaches.

4 years ago

An emergency declaration frees up resources to help fight the monkeypox outbreak. There are currently more than 6,600 cases in the U.S. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NPR
Government
Health Care
Medicine
Public Health

White House declares monkeypox a public health emergency

So far more than 6,000 people in the U.S. have been infected.

4 years ago

Rally-goers hold up signs at the rally in defense of abortion rights at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center on June 25, 2022. (Emily Rizzo/WHYY)
Government
Health Care
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly sends $500,000 in emergency funding to the Abortion Liberation Fund of PA

Even though abortion remains legal in Pennsylvania, the money is designed to support Philadelphians seeking access to an abortion.

4 years ago

Mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right.
National
Public Health

U.S. declares public health emergency over monkeypox outbreak

The announcement free ups federal funding and resources to fight the virus, which may cause fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and pimple-like bumps.

4 years ago

The exterior of Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill
Business
Employment
Health Care
Pennsylvania

Health care workers at 2 Crozer Health hospitals secure a new contract

More than 80 technical specialists at Delaware County Memorial Hospital (DCMH) and Taylor Hospital have come to an agreement with Crozer’s parent company.

4 years ago

This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue), cultured in the laboratory that was captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Md. (NIAID via AP)
Radio Times
Medicine
Public Health

The monkeypox outbreak and Covid surge

Monkeypox cases in the U.S. tripled in July. We'll discuss the public health response, if it's enough and talk about the surge in Covid infections.

Air Date: August 3, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Multiple varieties of the Premier Protein shakes are among the products included in the Lyons Magnus voluntary recall. (Food and Drug Administration)
NPR
Food & Drink
Public Health

Lyons Magnus recalls 53 products including alternative milks and protein shakes

The products included in the recall range from milk alternatives to prepackaged coffees to protein shakes and other nutritional beverages.

4 years ago

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