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Health & Science

Breast cancer survivors dance on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Health

Most Philly participants welcome changes to annual Susan G. Komen breast cancer event

Susan G. Komen replaced its ‘Race for the Cure’ with a ‘More Than Pink’ walk, a gated event requiring paid registration to focus on breast cancer care, research.

6 years ago

Streptomyces griseus, New Jersey's new state microbe
(Docwarhol [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)])
Science

New Jersey gets official state microbe: Streptomyces griseus

A microorganism that played a role in treating tuberculosis is now officially recognized as New Jersey's state microbe.

6 years ago

Black mothers are more likely than white mothers to die during pregnancy or delivery or in the year following. (JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images/Tetra images RF)
NPR
Health

Why racial gaps in maternal mortality persist

Black mothers die at a rate that's 3.3 times greater than whites , and Native American or Alaskan native women die at a rate 2.5 times greater than whites.

6 years ago

Image: Bigstock/Orca4
Skytalk
Science

Extraterrestrials On Earth?

Two researchers suggest a small amount of Earth’s heaviest elements were created in the collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion ...

Air Date: May 11, 2019

Listen 06:21


Companies are using new gene-editing tools to alter the DNA of food crops. One of these products is a soybean with a healthier kind of oil. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

Will gene-edited food be government regulated?

If you just take a snippet out of a gene without inserting anything new, the product falls into a gray area.

6 years ago

Officials from the Moshannon Forest District gather around the alidade, an instrument used to help personnel staffing lookout towers pinpoint the location of wildfires. From left to right, Joe Polaski, John Hecker and Larry Bickel stand in the new Chestnut Ridge tower. (Amy Sisk / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

With new lookout towers, Pennsylvania goes old-school to detect wildfires

Pa. has decided one of the best ways to spot small wildfires in places like the Moshannon State Forest is to go old-school.

6 years ago

The Pulse
Health

The Skinny on Skin

When’s the last time you saw a get-well card for psoriasis or eczema? Skin’s our biggest organ — and does lots of hard work keeping ...

Air Date: May 10, 2019

Listen 48:47
Pediatrician Eileen Everly and mom Teneika Thomas discuss Kyiren Smith's literacy progress during the 4-year-old's visit. Thomas said the boy corrected his teacher when she skipped two pages of a book she was reading in class. (Christine Bahls for WHYY)
Health

These pediatricians ‘prescribe’ kids books, to boost your baby’s brain

Reach Out and Read, with 81 sites in the Philadelphia area alone, helps families with young children that typically don’t own books and can’t afford them.

6 years ago

Josie Shipley received many books for her 6-month birthday. Her mother, Nicole Chaney, requested extras to donate — 60 in all — to new mothers in 2015 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked. (Courtesy of Nicole Chaney)
Health

Your baby’s brain: If you want to build a better mind, tell stories

Reading, even talking, to a little one furiously directs neuron fibers to places in the brain where the magic of language, memory and attention develop.

6 years ago

An informational card about ticks distributed by the Maine Medical Center  (Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo)
Health
PA Post

There are a lot more Lyme disease-carrying ticks in Pa. today, Penn State study finds

Pennsylvania has had the highest number of Lyme disease cases in the U.S since 2000.

6 years ago

Governor Phil Murphy signs legislation on maternal health joined by First Lady Tammy Murphy, legislators, Newark mayor Was Baraka, and community leaders at University hospital on Wednesday May 8, 2019. (Courtesy of Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office)
Health

N.J. takes steps to reduce its high rates of maternal, infant mortality

New Jersey will make it easier for women to access doulas, who offer can offer guidance and support during deliveries.

6 years ago

The bacterium that causes the plague travels around on fleas. This flea illustration is from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in London in 1665. (Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Bubonic plague strikes in Mongolia: Why is it still a threat?

The medieval plague known as the Black Death is making headlines this month.

6 years ago

David Paar, owner of Arborescence in Montgomery County, hands out cards that help people spot the different stages of the spotted lanternfly. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science
PA Post

Native fungi found to be deadly to invasive pest in Pa.

Nature appears to be fighting back against a destructive, invasive insect in Pennsylvania, according to new research.

6 years ago

(Photo credit, Big Stock)
Radio Times
Health

Navigating personal space and touching

We discuss whether or not the rules around personal space and touching have changed and discuss the social and emotional benefits of human touch,

Air Date: May 8, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:46
Inside Insite, North America’s first public supervised injection facility, located in Vancouver. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Health

Researcher releases new data on secret, illegally operating supervised injection site in U.S.

Somewhere in the United States, a space like the one being proposed in Philadelphia is already in operation.

6 years ago

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