Health & Science
MIS-C: Doctors make progress on COVID-related illness affecting kids
While doctors say they have more information on how to treat MIS-C, it's still a mystery why some children get it and others don't.
5 years ago
Listen 2:26Early in pandemic, frantic doctors traded tips across oceans
Doctors who faced the first coronavirus onslaught reached across oceans and language barriers in an unprecedented effort to advise colleagues trying to save lives in the dark.
5 years ago
Public health expert calls to repair distrust in a COVID-19 vaccine
Officials say a promising coronavirus vaccine is on its way in 2021. But does that matter if only half of Americans say they're willing to get such a vaccination?
5 years ago
Phillies get OK to train at Citizens Bank Park after negative COVID-19 tests
Activity at Citizens Bank Park had been canceled after three people tested positive for COVID-19 since last weekend.
5 years ago
One man’s COVID-19 death raises the worst fears of many people with disabilities
The hospital said it made a humane decision to end treatment. His widow says doctors ended his care because they underestimated the life of a man with disabilities.
5 years ago
Delaware panel calls for ‘culture of compliance’ to handle COVID-19 resurgence
Delaware’s fight against an expected resurgence of the coronavirus this fall needs to be a cooperative effort, a state panel told Gov. John Carney Friday.
5 years ago
U.S. reaches $2.1 billion deal with Sanofi, GlaxoSmithKline for COVID-19 vaccine push
This is the sixth vaccine candidate to join Operation Warp Speed's portfolio, and the largest vaccine deal to date.
5 years ago
Rising seas puts hundreds of Superfund sites at risk, study says
More than 200 current and potential Superfund sites in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are at risk of flooding in the next 20 years due to sea-level rise.
5 years ago
Cape May County’s ‘Safely Together’ campaign accelerates
Cape May County's "Safely Together" public health campaign is entering a second phase amid the traditional peak of the Jersey Shore tourism season.
5 years ago
COVID-19 hospital data system that bypasses CDC plagued by delays, inaccuracies
After the Trump administration moved hospital COVID-19 data reporting to HHS, bypassing the CDC, the new data system has been rife with erratic updates and anomalies.
5 years ago
Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to ...
Air Date: July 31, 2020
Listen 49:13Philly’s trash problem was already bad. Now, it’s worse
Sidewalks in Philadelphia neighborhoods are covered with plastic bags full of trash that haven't been collected in a week. And nobody know when it's going to get picked up.
Air Date: July 30, 2020
Listen 13:37Increased coronavirus enforcement at businesses coming to Delaware
After more than 1,000 complaints about businesses not following COVID-19 precautions, Delaware inspectors will be more aggressive enforcing the rules.
5 years ago
‘On our way to Mars’: NASA rover will look for signs of life
NASA’s Perseverance rode a mighty Atlas V rocket into a clear morning sky in the world’s third and final Mars launch of the summer.
5 years ago
Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies of COVID-19 at 74
Cain had been ill with the virus for several weeks.
5 years ago
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