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Health & Science

More than 50 piping plover chicks like this 18-day-old bird were born along Delaware's beaches this year, well above the long-term species recovery goal. (photo courtesy DNREC/Evangelin Von Boeckman)
Science

Endangered piping plover shows signs of recovery along Delaware beaches

More than 50 piping plover chicks were born along Delaware's beaches this year, well above the long-term species recovery goal.

6 years ago

Coronavirus patient samples
Health

N.J. coronavirus recovery: Officials tracking spike in Ocean County

Officials aren’t sure why yet, but they’ve seen a cluster of new cases in a county that covers a large stretch of the Jersey Shore.

6 years ago

Dr. David Weiner and Dr. Ami Patel work on synthetic DNA technology.
Health

Montco-based Inovio hits speed bump in coronavirus vaccine effort

Plymouth Meeting-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals has to delay upcoming coronavirus vaccine trials after an FDA inquiry.

6 years ago

A woman recovering from fever linked to COVID-19 checks medications in her home
NPR
Health

Nearly two-thirds of US households struck by COVID-19 face financial trouble

Plus, of all U.S. homes that include someone with a disability, 63% report serious financial hardship during the pandemic, and 37% have used up all or most of their savings.

6 years ago

A person walking wearing a face mask
NPR
Health

COVID-19 daily cases on the rise in nearly half of US states

The U.S. reported more than 55,000 infections Friday, pushing the total case number to over 7 million. Some two dozen states saw new cases continue to rise this past week.

6 years ago

This February 2018 photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Public Health shows The Gesundheit II machine in Dr. Donald Milton's Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and Exhaled Biomarker Laboratory at the University of Maryland School of Public Health in College Park, Md. (University of Maryland School of Public Health via AP)
Science

Tiny airborne particles may pose a big coronavirus problem

One study is trying to help scientists and researchers answer one big question: Just how does the virus that causes COVID-19 spread from one person to another?

6 years ago

Julian Siegel, owner of The Riverside Market, poses for a photo, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Siegel figures business dropped about 20% earlier this spring at his, restaurant after someone posted a picture on the Nextdoor app of people waiting in his parking lot for food. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
Health

Social media and COVID shaming: Fighting a toxic combination

Shaming people who get sick or don’t follow the rules in a public health crisis has been a thing since well before coronavirus, researchers say.

6 years ago

President Trump holds up an executive order after delivering remarks on health care in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

What to know about those $200 drug cards President Trump promised

Health policy researchers say Trump may not be able to pay for the cards, which fall short of lasting policy changes to curb high drug prices.

6 years ago

Mercy Philadelphia Hospital in West Philadelphia. (NBC10)
Health

Penn Med, PHMC lead coalition to save Mercy Philadelphia Hospital

The 153-bed West Philly safety-net facility, and its ER, will operate as a satellite of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

The beach in Mantoloking, N.J., Ocean County. (Alan Tu/WHYY)
Health

N.J. coronavirus: Cases rise in Ocean County; state budget inches closer to law

COVID-19 numbers are also spiking in Monmouth, Gloucester, Middlesex, and Bergen counties.

6 years ago

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Satta Sheriff, Young Leader for the SDGs and Founder and Executive Director of Action for Justice and Human Rights, Liberia, participates in the high-level virtual panel entitled
Health

COVID-19 can’t crush human rights, UN gathering declares

In a diminished spotlight because of COVID-19, leading human rights defenders on Friday urged people in these fractured times to connect through politics — and vote, too.

6 years ago

Construction of Mariner East 2 in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County. (Jon Hurdle / StateImpact PA)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. utility regulator says Sunoco must do more to share safety information on Mariner East project in Cumberland County

Pennsylvania’s utility regulator is siding with a Cumberland County man in his complaint against Sunoco’s Mariner East pipeline.

6 years ago

(Big Stock/digitalista)
The Pulse
Science

Confronting Implicit Biases

We’re trying to have more meaningful conversations about racism as a country. Part of that means talking about implicit bias — assump ...

Air Date: September 25, 2020

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In this Feb. 11, 2015, photo, veteran LAPD officers Don Wynne, left, and Ann Bozzi instruct dozens of unidentified Los Angeles Police Department officers learn to recognize unconscious prejudices and how they can impact behaviors on the street at a class at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. The department, which expects to send more than 5,000 officers to the museum’s course in the next several years, is working to weave implicit bias lessons into existing training. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
The Pulse
Health

Can you train people to be less biased?

Seminars and workshops on implicit bias promise to change cultures at police departments, organizations and universities. But how effective are these trainings?

6 years ago

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EastSide Charter principal Aaron Bass talks to a driver waiting in line at Walgreens. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

Wilmington families crowd drugstore test site, to support ‘community pop-ups’

A school leader had parents go to a pharmacy drive-thru, leading to a bottleneck, to show the ease of COVID-19 testing at his facility’s parking lot.

6 years ago

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