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Dr. Megan Werner (center) of Westside Family Healthcare in Wilmington says the root causes of health disparities need to be addressed. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

Nemours to study, attack, reduce children’s health disparities using $25 million gift

The new Ginsburg Institute will focus on the root causes of asthma, obesity, diabetes, and behavioral disorders that disproportionately affect Black and Latino kids.

4 years ago

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File photo: Serbia’s Novak Djokovic wears a face mask as he listens to the national anthems prior to a Davis Cup group F match between Serbia and Austria in Innsbruck, Austria, Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. (Photo/Michael Probst)
Health

Unvaccinated Djokovic says he is out of Indian Wells, Miami

The 20-time Grand Slam champion tweeted Wednesday that the Centers for Disease Control “confirmed the regulations won’t be changing so I won’t be able to play in the U.S.”

4 years ago

The exterior of Brandywine Hospital
Health

Canyon Atlantic drops lawsuit with Tower Health, ending a renewed bid to acquire Jennersville and Brandywine hospitals

The prospective buyer of the shuttered Chester County hospitals has ended a new bid to purchase and reopen them.

4 years ago

Two white-tailed deer forage in Pennsylvania's Wyomissing Parklands. At the end of 2021, researchers swabbed the noses of 93 dead deer from across the state. Nearly 20% tested positive for COVID. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)
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Health

Researcher finds ‘stunning’ rate of COVID among deer across Pa. Here’s what it means for humans

Between October and December of last year, researchers swabbed the noses of 93 dead deer from across Pennsylvania. Nearly a fifth of the animals tested positive for COVID.

4 years ago

A passer-by walks past a sign that calls attention to COVID-19 testing while departing a Walgreens pharmacy
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Health

‘Test to Treat’ gets COVID pills to at-risk patients fast, but its reach is limited

The program enables at-risk patients who test positive to get antiviral pills on the spot in some pharmacies. But many pharmacies won't be able to participate.

4 years ago

A label states that these pans do not contain PFAS
Health

Besides water, how else am I exposed to PFAS?

Clothing, carpeting, even microwave popcorn bags may have been manufactured using some members of this toxic class of chemicals.

4 years ago

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In this photo illustration, free iHealth COVID-19 antigen rapid tests from the federal government sit on a U.S. Postal Service envelope after being delivered on Feb. 4, 2022. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

You can order free COVID tests from the government again

Each household can order a total of eight tests. So if you ordered four in January, when the program launched, you're eligible to order a second batch of four more.

4 years ago

Students wearing masks
Health

Most N.J. residents agree with ending the school mask mandate, poll says

According to a recent poll, two-thirds of New Jersey residents agree with ending the school mask mandate.

4 years ago

Margarette Osias speaks with one of her patients
NPR
Health

Delaware is shrinking racial gaps in cancer death. Its secret? Patient navigators

Its free cancer screening and treatment is reducing inequities. Key to its success is outreach by patient navigators who connect with those least likely to seek care.

4 years ago

A PFAS filtration system
Science

Taking the first steps toward firm PFAS limits for drinking water in Pennsylvania and Delaware

Federal law gives the states authority. New Jersey already has enforceable maximum contaminant levels for specific types of the toxic chemicals.

4 years ago

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A person wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks amongst blooming cherry trees on a spring day at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, Friday, April 9, 2021.
Health
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I’m immunocompromised. How does a mask protect me if no one else wears one?

Lifted mandates leave a lot of risk calculations up to immunocompromised individuals, for some of whom vaccines aren’t much help.

4 years ago

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FILE - Nurse Marie-Laure Satta pauses during her New Year's Eve shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now in its third year, is far from over. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)
Health

Death toll surpasses 6 million for pandemic now in 3rd year

The milestone is the latest tragic reminder of the unrelenting nature of the pandemic even as people are shedding masks, travel is resuming and businesses are reopening.

4 years ago

The joro spider, a large spider native to East Asia, is seen in Johns Creek, Ga., on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. The spider has spun its thick, golden web on power lines, porches and vegetable patches all over north Georgia this year – a proliferation that has driven some unnerved homeowners indoors and prompted a flood of anxious social media posts
NPR
Science

Beware the joro spider. Scientists say the giant, but harmless, arachnid is spreading

A study says that the palm-sized spider, which has been largely confined to warmer Southeastern states for nearly a decade, could soon colonize regions with colder climates.

4 years ago

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Friday, March 4, 2022
Health

White House: Congress must act soon to replenish COVID funds

Nearly a year after passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, the administration says the federal government has nearly depleted funding dedicated to COVID-19.

4 years ago

N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy leads the final briefing on the state's response to the pandemic on March 4, 2022 in Trenton, N.J. (P. Kenneth Burns/WHYY)
Health

N.J. Gov. Murphy will lift public health emergency Monday

At his final COVID briefing, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says the public health emergency will be lifted on Monday, the same day as the end of the school mask mandate.

4 years ago

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