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Health & Science

A worker picks blueberries at a farm in
The Why
Health

Trouble in the ‘Blueberry Capital of the World’

Some South Jersey blueberry farms were recently cited for illegally housing migrant workers in sheds without proper septic systems — for years.

Air Date: August 19, 2019

Listen 11:36
A South African patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis waits to be seen by a doctor at a Johannesburg hospital. (Michele Spatari /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

New drug could be game changer for drug-resistant TB. But a question looms

People with drug-resistant tuberculosis take many pills over a long period of time. Cure rate is low.

6 years ago

Vaping has been linked to a cluster of hospitalizations in Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. (sestovic/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

What’s behind a cluster of vaping-related hospitalizations?

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has confirmed 15 cases of patients who were admitted to Wisconsin hospitals with severe lung injury since July.

6 years ago

Doctors and public health experts warn of poor health outcomes and rising costs they say will come from sweeping changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, as well as food stamps and other forms of public assistance. Saavedra is convinced that if new Trump administration criteria were in effect for her parents three decades ago, she wouldn’t have become a pediatrician. (Amr Alfiky/AP Photo)
Health

Advocates already see fallout from immigration rule change

Doctors warn of poor health and rising costs they say will come from sweeping Trump administration changes that would deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid.

6 years ago

Picture taken on March 5, 2019 shows a black rhinoceros in the savannah landscape of the Etosha National Park. (Matthias Toedt/AP via AP)
Science

From tusks to tails, nations eye trade in endangered species

From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind's exploitation of the planet's fauna and flora is putting some of them at risk of extinction.

6 years ago

Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, Pa. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Research shows thousands could be saved with better air quality standards

New research from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh shows thousands of lives could be saved each year if air quality standards were tightened.

6 years ago

Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science

‘Great progress’ in South Philly refinery cleanup, fire commissioner says

About half of the original 30,000 gallons of highly toxic hydrofluoric acid remains. “A good week,” Philadelphia Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says.

6 years ago

A solar panel owned by the City of Philadelphia. (City of Philadelphia)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Pa. grants $2M for solar tech at PGW’s liquefied natural gas plant

Philadelphia’s future LNG plant gets grant for solar panels. Environmentalists say that doesn’t make the fossil fuel project right.

6 years ago

The state has developed a demographic snapshot of those who died of drug overdoses in 2017. It will be used to try to reduce future opioid-related deaths. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

4 takeaways from Delaware’s most comprehensive overdose death study

The state has developed a demographic snapshot of those who died of drug overdoses in 2017. It will be used to try to reduce future opioid-related deaths.

6 years ago

Liz Tung, at 3 years old, pretends to be on television using a cardboard box. (Image courtesy of Liz Tung)
The Pulse
Health

Rediscovering fun: Why grown-ups need to play

Playing doesn't end with childhood. It's important for adults too, just in a different way.

6 years ago

Listen 12:31
Mo, a black-headed caique, peers out of his cage at the Bradywine Zoo. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Which animals play, and why?

It wasn’t until a few years ago that researchers defined what really counts, to animals, as play.

6 years ago

Listen 06:44
A mobile mammography van helps boost Philly's rate (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Health
Billy Penn

Good news: On mammograms, Philadelphia beats the national average

There’s still a striking disparity between neighborhoods across the city.

6 years ago

Concept image of three genders, male and female, undetermined sex
Health

Looking at gender’s many sides, and keeping kids’ safety and inclusion in mind

Navigating the world as a young transgender person can be challenging. That’s true even in places some might think it’s safe, like the health-care system.

6 years ago

Listen 4:53
A herd of cows grazes on a grass field at a farm in Schaghticoke, N.Y. The grass-fed movement is based on the idea of regenerative agriculture. (John Greim/LightRocket via Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Is grass-fed beef really better for the planet? Here’s the science

Researchers are now calling for the world to cut back on its meat consumption. But some advocates say there is a way to eat meat that's better for the planet.

6 years ago

Air pollution from industry and cars continues to create smog in towns and cities around America. Exposure to higher than average levels of smog and other pollutants is linked to chronic lung disease.
(Peter Essick/Getty Images/Aurora Open)
NPR
Health

Air pollution may be as harmful to your lungs as smoking cigarettes, study finds

A new study published today in JAMA finds that long-term exposure to slightly elevated levels of air pollution is linked to accelerated development of lung damage.

6 years ago

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