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Health & Science

Philadelphia residents from Kensington and beyond crowd a public discussion in April on a proposed supervised injection site on Hilton Street near Kensington and Allegheny Avenue. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Kenney urges delay on Safehouse injection site, tells planners to look at other locations

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney urges nonprofit planning supervised injection site to explore other locations in response to pushback from Kensington residents.

6 years ago

AP Photo/Patrick Semansky
Radio Times
Health

Designing healthy hospital sound

Doctors, musicians, and engineers are teaming up to find out how to rid hospitals of stressful beeps and alarms and replace them with more harmonious alternatives.

Air Date: April 17, 2019

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US Steel's Clairton Coke Works. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
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StateImpact Pennsylvania

Air pollution problems from steel industry prompt two Pa. lawsuits

Emissions from coke ovens can cause cancer, and they sometimes escape through leaky doors and other parts of plants.

6 years ago

Maurice Barnes plays in the schoolyard behind Lowell Elementary School in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Health

Why it’s so hard to get playgrounds in Philly’s public schools

Two-thirds of Philly's public schools don't have playgrounds. Research shows the spaces are beneficial for kids, so why is it so hard to build them?

Air Date: April 17, 2019

Listen 12:05
A doctor looks at the CT scan of a lung cancer patient. (Andy Wong/AP Photo)
Health

Delaware health officials promote CT scans for early lung cancer detection

Delaware has launched a campaign to encourage current and former heavy smokers over 55 to be screened.

6 years ago

Philadelphia’s Health Center #1 at Broad and Lombard streets. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Syphilis rates rise among Philadelphia women and people who inject drugs

The increase in women with syphilis is especially alarming to city officials because the disease is the most serious when it is passed on to a fetus.

6 years ago

CRISPR gene-editing technology allows scientists to make highly precise modifications to DNA. The technology is now starting to be used in human trials to treat several diseases in the U.S.
(Molekuul/Getty Images/Science Photo Library)
NPR
Health

First U.S. patients treated with CRISPR at Penn as human gene-editing trials get underway

This could be a crucial year for the powerful gene-editing technique CRISPR as researchers start testing it in patients to treat diseases such as cancer.

6 years ago

U.S. Steel's Clairton Plant, the largest coke works in North America, in Clairton, Pa. (Reid Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

‘Razorblades and feathers in my throat’: A fire at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh made a major polluter even worse

The country's largest coke plant was without pollution controls for over three months.

6 years ago

Representatives from the state's PFAS Action Team updated people on plans for water testing during a meeting in Abington, Pa, on April 15, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Science
StateImpact PA

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team gives update on water-testing plans to frustrated Pa. residents

Water sources will be tested for PFAS contamination, and sampling will begin of urine, dust, and water from residents whose blood was already tested.

6 years ago

In this photo provided by the New Jersey Office of the Governor, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy signs the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act Friday, April 12, 2019 at the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. New Jersey is the seventh state to enact a law permitting terminally ill patients to seek life ending medication. (New Jersey Office of the Governor via AP)
Health

Beginning in August, terminally ill N.J. patients will have right to end their lives

Terminally ill patients in New Jersey will have to meet with two doctors and wait at least 15 days before they can get the lethal drugs.

6 years ago

Image: EHT Collaboration
Skytalk
Science

Explorer of the Year

Next week, (Wednesday evening at the Union League in Philadelphia) the Geographical Society of Philadelphia will bestow its 128th Explo ...

Air Date: April 15, 2019

Listen 04:59
A bowl of Honey Toasted Kernza. General Mills made 6,000 boxes of the cereal and is passing them out to spread the word about perennial grains. (Olivia Sun/NPR)
NPR
Health

Can this breakfast cereal help save the planet?

Some environmentalists say food production needs a fundamental reboot, with crops that stay rooted in the soil for years, like Kernza, a prairie grass.

6 years ago

Nurse practitioner Debra Brown guides patient Merdis Wells through a diabetic retinopathy exam at University Medical Center in New Orleans. (Courtesy of IDx)
NPR
Health

How can we be sure artificial intelligence is safe for medical use?

The FDA, accustomed to approving drugs and clearing medical devices, is now figuring out how to make sure computer algorithms are safe and effective.

6 years ago

This image released Wednesday, April 10, 2019, by Event Horizon Telescope shows a black hole. Scientists revealed the first image ever made of a black hole after assembling data gathered by a network of radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/Maunakea Observatories via AP)
Science

Picture was clear, but black hole’s name a little fuzzy

The newly pictured supermassive black hole is a beast with no name, at least not an official one. And what happens next could be cosmically confusing.

6 years ago

(Bigstock/Hannamariah)
Health

Cut melon linked to U.S. salmonella outbreak recalled

An Indianapolis-based company has issued a recall for melon products sold in 16 states after being linked to a salmonella outbreak.

6 years ago

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