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Health & Science
Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."
6 years ago
The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.
6 years ago
State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.
6 years ago
Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says
The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’
6 years ago
‘What does war do to an entire person?’ — VA studies veterans with blast injuries
Improved battlefield medical care in the Middle East means more troops have survived with traumatic brain injury. Researchers are trying to understand the long-term effects.
6 years ago
Abortions rise worldwide when U.S. cuts funding to women’s health clinics, study finds
Researchers have found that the global gag rule has actually made women in sub-Saharan Africa twice as likely to have an abortion.
6 years ago
It’s 2050 and this is how we stopped climate change
Let's imagined that we've ended global warming. Humans are no longer releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.
6 years ago
The Last Stop’s last stand? Why a Philly addiction recovery house is fighting to stay open
The Last Stop is a recovery house that offers free rehabilitation services for those suffering from addition. But it's run into conflicts with the city. Can it survive?
Air Date: March 11, 2019
Listen 12:31How much difference will Eli Lilly’s half-price insulin make?
Between 2009 and 2017 the wholesale price of a single vial of Humalog, the Eli Lilly and Company-manufactured insulin Gilmer uses, nearly tripled.
6 years ago
Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?
Imagine what might happen if the government itself had embraced an official anti-vaccine policy.
6 years ago
Philadelphia wants to get the HIV prevention pill to women most at risk
A local prevention-navigation supervisor says the drug “has not been marketed to women, to African-American women, as a priority.”
6 years ago
Listen 2:34After mumps outbreak, Temple will require new students to be vaccinated
The university is preparing, in case there are more cases of the flulike illness as students return from spring break. Current policy doesn’t require them to be vaccinated.
6 years ago
A gulp of genetically modified bacteria might someday treat a range of illnesses
Scientists hope to genetically modify microbes from the human microbiome to treat a range of diseases, including digestive disorders.
6 years ago
Pa. looking for new ways to fight spotted lanternfly
Pennsylvania is looking for new ways to fight the invasive spotted lanternfly, nearly five years after it was first discovered in Berks County.
6 years ago
The Atacama desert in Chile is one of the most arid places on the planet – averaging less than one inch of rainfall per year! High ...
Air Date: March 8, 2019
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