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Who Do You Think You Are?

Scientist. Farmer. Feminist. Leader. Alpha male. Veteran. African-American. Hindu. Identity isn’t just about who we think we are — it ...

Air Date: September 27, 2019

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Protesters gather at City Hall opposing the city's smoking ban in inpatient addiction treatment facilities. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Health

Smoking ban at drug rehab centers fuels black market for cigarettes, safety issues

Philly says the ban, started in January at city-funded centers, has been a success. But providers and clients say it’s still easy to smoke in treatment.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
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Sunoco still needs DEP approvals to restart pipeline work in Chester County

The lifting of the injunction at the sinkhole site isn’t a final green light for Mariner East.

6 years ago

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Public toilets and sinks are installed in Kensington — and were vandalized on the first day

The mobile trailers, part of an effort to combat hepatitis A, are locked up overnight.

6 years ago

Ruby Johnson, whose daughter was recently hospitalized with a respiratory illness from vaping, testified before a House Oversight subcommittee hearing on lung disease and e-cigarettes on Capitol Hill Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/AP)
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If e-cigs were romaine lettuce, they’d be off the shelf, vaper’s mom tells Congress

"We are seeing more and more cases each day," the CDC's Dr. Anne Schuchat told lawmakers

6 years ago

Protesters gather at City Hall opposing the city's smoking ban in inpatient addiction treatment facilities. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
The Why
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Is Philly’s smoking ban at drug rehabs working?

It's been nine months since Philly banned smoking at city-funded drug rehab centers. Why it's hard to get answers about whether it's helping or hindering people in recovery.

Air Date: September 25, 2019

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Palforzia, a new drug to treat peanut allergies, is expected to get FDA approval. The main ingredient of the drug is peanut flour.
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Allergists debate anticipated FDA approval of a peanut allergy drug

The drug, called Palforzia, was developed by California startup Aimmune Therapeutics to be taken daily in a regimen known as oral immunotherapy.

6 years ago

St. Christopher's Hospital for Children is shown from across the street on an overcast day.
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St. Christopher’s Children’s Hospital sale can go forward, bankruptcy judge rules

STC Opco — a partnership between Reading-based Tower Health and Drexel University — bought the North Philadelphia facility for $50 million.

6 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science

Bucks, Montgomery counties will get $5 million to study health effects of PFAS

Residents in affected Bucks and Montgomery County communities will be eligible for blood testing as part of a national study on the effects of PFAS.

6 years ago

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Down the Shore
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Mosquito found at Joint Base tests positive for dangerous disease

Military officials at a New Jersey base say a mosquito found at the installation tested positive for a dangerous disease. 

6 years ago

Some insurers using this new payment model offer a single fee to one OB-GYN or medical practice, which then uses part of that money to cover the hospital care involved in labor and delivery. Other insurers opt to cut a separate contract with the hospital. (Adene Sanchez/Getty Images)
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A new way of paying for maternity care aims to reduce c-sections

Instead of paying doctors piecemeal for prenatal appointments and delivery of the baby, some insurers now offer medical practices one lump sum to cover it all.

6 years ago

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Drexel and Tower Health reach deal to buy St. Christopher’s Hospital

Sale of the North Philadelphia hospital is part of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding involving Philadelphia Academic Health, which also owns Hahnemann.

6 years ago

Climate activist Rafe Pomerance speaks at an event at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in Philadelphia on Sept. 12. (Photo courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
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What longtime climate activist Rafe Pomerance wants you to know

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips sat down with Pomerance and asked him what he wants people to know right now.

6 years ago

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Migrating shorebirds at Kimbles Beach, N.J. Researchers estimate that the population of North American shorebirds alone has fallen by more than a third since 1970. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
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Science

North America has lost 3 billion birds, scientists say

More than 90% of the loss can be attributed to just a dozen bird families, including sparrows, blackbirds and finches.

6 years ago

Scientists have been studying the link between climate change and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, shown here in a NASA image, which left more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians in the dark in 2012. (Getty Images)
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Five climate change science misconceptions, debunked

Here are five commonly used myths and the real science that debunks them.

6 years ago

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