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Changing Treatments

Medicine is always changing. New treatments become available. Old ones become obsolete. But how does a treatment become established? How ...

Air Date: March 6, 2020

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Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
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Billy Penn

What do you want to know about the coronavirus in Philly?

Tell us your most pressing questions regarding COVID-19.

6 years ago

the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine
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Delaware works to contain mumps outbreak in New Castle County schools

Health officials are working to control a mumps outbreak among school children in New Castle County, Del.

6 years ago

A woman, who declined to give her name, wears a mask in New York out of concern for the coronavirus. Experts say the masks do not necessarily help prevent the spread of the virus. (Mark Lennihan/AP Photo)
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N.J. now has four patients who tested positive for COVID-19

Acting Gov. Oliver announced immediate restrictions on state-related business travel, international and short trips, such as to New York and Philadelphia.

6 years ago

FILE- In this March 2, 2020 file photo, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, right, is joined by Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli, center, during a news conference in Ewing, N.J., Monday, March 2, 2020. On Wednesday, March 4, 2020, Murphy, Persichilli and Acting Governor Sheila Oliver announced the first presumptive positive case of novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, in New Jersey. The individual, a male in his 30s, is hospitalized in Bergen County and has been hospitalized since March 3. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Health

N.J. health officials confirm the state’s 1st positive test of new coronavirus

A man in his 30s who is hospitalized in Bergen County has New Jersey’s first positive test for COVID-19, Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement Wednesday.

6 years ago

Hawaii state Department of Health microbiologist Mark Nagata demonstrates the process for testing a sample for coronavirus at the department's laboratory in Pearl City, Hawaii. (Audrey McAvoy/AP Photo)
Science
Broke in Philly

What if you want a COVID-19 test but don’t have health insurance?

Now that test kits are more available, there has been some concern fear of cost might deter underinsured or uninsured Americans from getting tested.

6 years ago

Protesters gather in a parking lot at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery office on Passayunk Avenue in South Philadelphia on Feb. 9, 2020. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Pa. proposes to relax non-residential lead cleanup standards

If approved, the lead concentration allowed on the first 2 feet of sites like the PES refinery complex would rise from 1,000 parts per million to 2,500 ppm.

6 years ago

The Ruth Williams House at Broad and Boston Streets in Philadelphia has 88 units for those in need of affordable housing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Health
Broke in Philly

Philly’s homeless shelters prepare for unique challenge coronavirus brings

A lot of cleaning and monitoring for symptoms is going on since close quarters would make it hard for residents to keep a distance from an ill individual.

6 years ago

Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Rachel Levine (Commonwealth Media Services)
Health

Pennsylvania says it is speeding up coronavirus testing

The lab can now handle about 25 samples a day and that rate should increase in the coming days after it gets a piece of equipment that boosts its testing capacity.

6 years ago

A closeup of a spotted lanternfly
Science

Pennsylvania adds 12 counties to lanternfly quarantine zone

The invasive spotted lanternfly is continuing its westward march across Pa., with state agriculture officials nearly doubling the number of counties in a quarantine zone.

6 years ago

Philadelphia International Airport hallway (Danya Henninger/Billy Penn)
Health
Billy Penn

Airport workers to get coronavirus training as PHL ramps up response

Philly International is not a designated “screener” location, but does have a CDC quarantine station.

6 years ago

The Pulse
Health

Outbreak 1793

COVID-19 — a coronavirus disease — is spreading around the world, putting people and governments on high alert. How will we respond t ...

Air Date: March 4, 2020

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File photo: Hundreds gathered in South Philly to celebrate the temporary defeat of a supervised injection site in their neighborhood and protest putting one there in the future. (Nina Feldman/WHYY)
Health

Civic groups argue supervised injection site will boost crime

Neighborhood groups joined the FOP in supporting U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s effort to keep the nonprofit’s supervised injection site from opening.

6 years ago

Laurie Cleveland of the Sourland Conservancy scoops up a wood frog to help it across the road, while volunteers with headlamps and flashlights patrol try to save the amphibians from being crushed by passing cars. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science

N.J. crossing guards protect amphibians making deadly trek for love

The Sourland Conservancy has operated an amphibian crossing guard program for five years — with a focus on the spotted salamander.

6 years ago

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Health

Why are so many more children nearsighted these days?

One in three Americans now have myopia. Kids who spend lots of time indoors are five times more at risk of developing it, research shows.

6 years ago

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