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Health & Science

In this Aug. 16, 2019, photo, large Icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland. Scientists are hard at work, trying to understand the alarmingly rapid melting of the ice. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Science

Earth’s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

6 years ago

A 15-year-old in Cambridge, Mass., shows off her vaping device in 2018. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

Cigarettes can’t be advertised on TV. Should Juul ads be permitted?

Why does e-cigarette maker Juul advertise its product on TV when cigarette ads are banned? The short answer: Because it can.

6 years ago

Scientists are using statistics, history and computer modeling to understand exactly how much hotter the oceans are today than they were before industrialization. Harvard researchers just found a clue in shipping records digitized after World War II. (Suomi NPP — VIIRS/NASA Earth Observatory)
NPR
Science

How much hotter are the oceans? The answer begins with a bucket

If you want to know what climate change will look like, you need to know what Earth's climate looked like in the past

6 years ago

At the kitchen table Summer Mills goes over documents accumulated in the past months while dealing with dental issues, on April 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Health

For low-income Pennsylvanians, dental care can be a nightmare

More than 1 million adults on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have only bare bones coverage. Why is getting dental care so hard for these patients?

Air Date: August 20, 2019

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Cheryl Juaire (left) and Tracy Martin of Team Sharing, a national support group for parents of overdose victims, speak at a rally outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia in support of supervised injection sites. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

What counts as saving a life? United States v. Safehouse kicks off

Lawyers for the nonprofit proposing a supervised injection site compared it to ERs, syringe exchanges. U.S. attorneys said the difference is they’re legal.

6 years ago

FILE- In this July 10, 2018, file photo bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J. Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Health

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

6 years ago

Mahmee CEO Melissa Hanna (right) and her mother Linda Hanna (left) co-founded the company in 2014. Linda's more than 40 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse and certified lactation consultant helped them understand the need, they say. (Keith Alcantara/Mahmee)
NPR
Health

This app aims to save new moms’ lives

They hope to help OB-GYNs and other health providers closely monitor a mother and baby's health so that red flags can be assessed before they are life-threatening.

6 years ago

Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facilityyt, provides people with clean injection supplies. Photo by Elana Gordon, WHYY
Health

Judge to hear nuts and bolts of how Philly supervised injection site would work

Lawyers for Safehouse will lay out how the supervised injection facility would operate. It’s the first hearing since federal prosecutors filed suit.

6 years ago

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

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