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Health & Science

A couple dressed in protective gear walks through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
NPR
Health

The people flying during the pandemic and how airlines are trying to protect them

The few planes that are flying are almost empty. To try to ensure the safety of the passengers they do have, airlines are making changes.

6 years ago

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer
Health

Schumer calls on VA to explain use of unproven drug on vets

The Senate's top Democrat said the VA needs to provide Congress more information about a recent bulk order for $208,000 worth of hydroxychloroquine.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Gov Tom Wolf
Health

Coronavirus update: Four Pa. counties push against stay-at-home order; One more week to register to vote

Lancaster, Schuylkill, Lebanon and Dauphin counties have all announced plans to move from the more restrictive “red” phase to “yellow.”

6 years ago

Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health
Health

US faces ‘truly daunting’ challenges on needed COVID tests

Widespread availability of testing is seen as critical to reopening the economy because it would allow public health officials to identify and contain a rebound of the virus.

6 years ago

Dr. Faoud Ishmael
Health
Spotlight PA

Workers in Pa. with preexisting health conditions fear a call to return to work

With no guarantee they can collect unemployment if they refuse to go to work, immunocompromised workers fear a near-impossible choice: Risk losing their jobs, or their life.

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci
Health

3 members of White House virus task force in quarantine

The White House's concern about infection is another stark reminder that not even one of the nation’s most secure buildings is immune from the coronavirus.

6 years ago

Woman receives haircut
NPR
Health

Public health experts say many states are opening too soon to do so safely

By Monday, at least 31 states will have partially reopened after seven weeks of restrictions.

6 years ago

Businesses need employees to feel safe returning to offices, but plans to track their movements are raising fears about greater workplace surveillance. (Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Your boss may soon track you at work for coronavirus safety

Companies around the country are figuring out how to safely reopen office during the pandemic. The new normal might involve smartphone apps and badges to track employees.

6 years ago

Birth control pills in 1976 in New York. The birth control pill was approved by the FDA 60 years ago this week. (Bettmann/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

How the approval of the birth control pill 60 years ago helped change lives

When the pill was approved in 1960, women had few relatively few contraceptive options, and the pill offered more reliability and convenience than methods like condoms.

6 years ago

(David Maialetti/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health
Spotlight PA

Some Pa. counties push to exclude nursing home cases from reopening formula, but experts caution against it

Reopening too soon could exacerbate the already devastating death toll in long-term care facilities, they say.

6 years ago

(Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Inquirer)
Health
Spotlight PA

Pa. had early plan to protect nursing homes from the coronavirus, but never fully implemented it

Similar measures to those envisioned were later put in place, but only after widespread outbreaks were already underway.

6 years ago

In this April 3, 2020, photo, a technician holds blue preservation solution in a clean room where saliva collection devices are assembled at Spectrum DNA in Draper, Utah. The company has developed a test kit to detect the coronavirus in patients' saliva. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Health

Coronavirus update: FDA approves Rutgers saliva test; N.J. to get remdesivir from feds

The test will enable people to collect their own saliva at home and send it to a lab for results, while the drug has helped some COVID-19 patients improve.

6 years ago

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Health

Who’s getting supplies of the COVID drug remdesivir? Pa. pharmacists, hospitals want to know

Gilead has donated its existing supply, to be distributed by AmerisourceBergen. That company says the government decides which places can get the drug.

6 years ago

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This image made by a scanning electron micrograph shows SARS-COV-2 virus particles (colorized pink) from a patient sample. There are various studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. (NIAID/NIH)
NPR
Science

The coronavirus is mutating. That’s normal. Does that mean it’s more dangerous?

There are studies looking at changes to the virus genome — and the possible impact on how the virus affects humans. Here's what we know (and don't yet know) about mutations.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Task Force 1 member Greg Rogalski walks amongst the beds of a Federal Medical Station for hospital surge capacity set up at Temple University's Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Monday, March 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Pennsylvania sees 20 percent surge in mortality rate during COVID crisis

Preliminary vital statistics show the state recorded 49,384 total deaths from any cause through the end of April. In April 2019, there were 46,521 deaths.

6 years ago

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