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Health & Science

Marek (right) and Michał Swoboda of the start-up Right-Air created a basic ventilator that can be 3D printed as a backup for hospitals during this coronavirus outbreak. (Courtesy of Marek Swoboda)
The Pulse
Health

Philadelphia engineer creates backup ventilators for coronavirus pandemic

Designers sprint to create a basic model for COVID-19 patients that can be 3D-printed.

5 years ago

A person wearing a protective face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks in Philadelphia, Thursday, April 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Coronavirus update: Wolf outlines tentative plan to restart Pa. economy

On Thursday, Wolf made what appeared to be an attempt to appease his critics. He announced a plan divided into three steps: “relief,” “reopening,” and “recovery.”

5 years ago

The Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility on State Road in Philadelphia (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health
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Prisoners being released from city, state prisons are not being tested for COVID-19

Prisoners Being Released From City, State Prisons Are Not Being Tested for COVID-19

5 years ago

Melvin Santiago wear his makeshift mask Friday morning while doing some renovation and repair work at a store on Fourth Street and Delamore Place in Wilmington. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Health

Coronavirus update: Delaware records first COVID prison death

A man being held in Delaware’s largest prison tested positive for coronavirus following his death earlier this week.

5 years ago

Laboratory Scientist Andrea Luquette cultures coronavirus to prepare for testing at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Science

Unlocking the novel coronavirus

We discuss what makes the novel coronavirus such an effective and dangerous pathogen in the human body and the race to develop a vaccine against it.

Air Date: April 17, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
Dana Heller, 3rd medical student, Dr. Pierre Chanson, Natalie Gonzalez, 4th year medical student, Dr. Renell Dupree, and Dr. Ala Stanford, are part of the Black Doctors COVID-19 consortium. They are taking mobile testing at-risk zip codes in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Black doctors consortium takes COVID-19 testing into their own hands

Black Philadelphians are disproportionately dying of coronavirus. Now, a group of Black doctors is trying to bring tests to their neighborhoods.

5 years ago

Optimizing Brain Performance
The Pulse
Science

This is Your Brain During a Pandemic

Optimizing our brains has become an obsession of the modern world. We meditate, take supplements, read books on productivity — all in t ...

Air Date: April 17, 2020

Listen 48:44
Resisting productivity culture and letting yourself be bored can do a lot for your cognitive health. (Chinnapong/Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Health

Why ‘stillness’ is crucial for your brain during this pandemic

The idea that you should be optimizing your quarantine time is everywhere. But resisting productivity culture and letting yourself be bored is essential to your well-being.

5 years ago

Listen 13:15
Samantha Southall and her 10 1/2-year-old daughter, who fractured her wrist amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy of Samantha Southall)
Health

Coronavirus or not, kids still fall or feel yucky. Do you go to the pediatrician?

Some situations, like broken bones, clearly call for in-person visits. Others are not so obvious. Here’s some advice for parents.

5 years ago

Listen 1:29
Powerback Rehabilitation in Center City Philadelphia. (Google Maps)
Health

A risky but possibly lucrative mix: Nursing homes and COVID-19 patients

Canceled elective procedures mean many facilities are no longer getting short-term residents paid for by Medicare. Medicaid pays less for long-term care.

5 years ago

Temple University’s Liacouras Center. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Liacouras ‘COVID surge facility’ opens with no patients

The 10,000-seat sports arena was remade into a medical facility to meet the demands of coronavirus surge. It ended its first day open to patients with no beds in use.

5 years ago

A jogger runs past a wall painted with the word
Health

See the curve: Pa. coronavirus daily death count hits new high as spread slows

As the state's daily death rate hits a high, experts are cautiously optimistic that social distancing measures are helping to contain the contagion.

5 years ago

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 28, 1979 file photo, a Pennsylvania state police officer and plant security guards stand outside the closed front gate to the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa. after the plant was shut down following a partial meltdown. (AP Photo/Paul Vathis)
Science

Pennsylvania raises alarms on transfer of radioactive Three Mile Island reactor

DEP asks the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to slow down the review of a license transfer due to the coronavirus emergency.

5 years ago

Listen 1:56
The COVID-19 treatment center at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.
Health

Coronavirus update: Delaware man dies in prison, was held in coronavirus cellblock

A man in a Delaware prison unit that had a coronavirus outbreak has died. Two coronavirus tests before his death were negative.

5 years ago

An infant grasps volunteer Kathleen Jones' hand in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
Health
Billy Penn

Free diapers in Philly: 10 places mothers can get formula and supplies

A new program to help babies during the pandemic.

5 years ago

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