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The Pulse
Health

Sex and Health

At its best, sex isn’t just fun — it’s good for our health. It can relieve stress, enhance our mood — even offer a bit of ...

Air Date: March 22, 2019

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Students walk past Samuel Paley Library on the Temple University campus, where a student died of a drug overdose on Dec. 1.
Health

Temple will hold free MMR vaccine clinics amid mumps outbreak

The university will have two walk-in clinics next week to offer the measles, mumps, and rubella, or MMR, vaccine — at no charge — to members of the school community.

6 years ago

Pro-life protesters gather outside of Planned Parenthood on Saturday morning in Warminster, Pa., to support a proposal to defund the organization. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Pa. lawmakers bring back bill penalizing doctors for abortions due to Down syndrome

Organizations like Planned Parenthood have also derided the initiative as a way to chip away at abortion rights.

6 years ago

Dr. Ben Cocchiaro and Louis Morano chat in Prevention Point's
The Why
Health

Getting on board with bupe: Why a crucial addiction treatment drug can be hard to get

Buprenorphine and other medication-assisted treatments could be crucial to treating those suffering from opioid addiction in Philadelphia. So why can it be so hard to get?

Air Date: March 21, 2019

Listen 14:23
Registered nurse Nicole Rodriguez draws a dose of mumps vaccine at the Temple student health center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Mumps outbreak at Temple University up to 74 cases, but school closing unlikely

In the face of a rising number of mumps cases, Temple University officials don't plan to shut the school. They are considering providing booster shots at no charge.

6 years ago

Retired coal miner John Robinson displays his mining helmet at his home in Coeburn, Va., on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019. Robinson was 47 when he was diagnosed with black lung disease, part of a new generation of black lung sufferers who are contracting the deadly disease at younger ages. (Dylan Lovan/AP Photo)
Health

With black lung fund in jeopardy, taxpayers could foot bill

At least one Republican congressman from the coalfields has added his voice to the chorus of miners and advocates worried that the fund's promise might not be kept.

6 years ago

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf delivers his budget address for the 2019-20 fiscal year to a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health

Gov. Wolf signs sixth opioid crisis disaster declaration

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf says the opioid crisis remains a disaster emergency, though there are signs that drug overdose deaths may be declining.

6 years ago

In Louisiana, even informed patient Xander Adams got lost in barriers and stigma while trying to get a prescription for PrEP. (Image by Hira-Maja Dupas)
The Pulse
Health

Getting on PrEP is harder than you think

In Louisiana, even an informed patient got lost in barriers and stigma while trying to get a prescription for PrEP.

6 years ago

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In this May 22, 2017, file photo shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. Forty years after Three Mile Island became synonymous with America's worst commercial nuclear power accident, the prospect of bailing out nuclear power plants is stirring debate at the highest levels of Pennsylvania and the federal government. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
PA Post

What will become of Three Mile Island’s nuclear waste if the plant closes?

"Nobody wants the spent fuel near them," said Don Hudson, who lives downstream from the defunct Maine Yankee plant.

6 years ago

A man throws a snapper onto a pile in a fish market in East Java, Indonesia. For certain snappers, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this is a recipe for collapse. (Ed Wray)
NPR
Science

Why restaurant demand for smaller fish fillets is bad news for oceans

For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this can be dire.

6 years ago

Shown is the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Health

Pa. lawmakers seek to use vacant state-owned buildings for addiction recovery

The plan raises a question lawmakers and state agencies aren't yet able to answer: How many buildings does the state have sitting around vacant?

6 years ago

On March 19, an expert committee convened by the World Health Organization is calling for the U.N. health agency to create a global registry of scientists working on gene editing. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
Science

UN: Gene editing for human reproduction is ‘irresponsible’

 A panel convened by the World Health Organization said it would be "irresponsible" for scientists to use gene editing for reproductive purposes, but stopped short on a ban.

6 years ago

In this Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016 photo, thousands of dead and decaying fish are washing ashore as they float up Waackaack Creek on the morning tide in Keansburg, N.J. State environmental officials say the scores of dead peanut bunker fish were likely chased into the Raritan Bay by other fish. Once there, they apparently were killed off by low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water. (Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP) (The Associated Press)(Robert Sciarrino/NJ Advance Media via AP)
Down the Shore
Science

Thousands of dead fish wash up in Shore town

State environmental officials say thousands of dead fish have washed up in a New Jersey shore community.

6 years ago

Actress Jane Fonda is shown during the filming of her movie
Science
PA Post

Three Mile Island accident was eerily foreshadowed by a Hollywood blockbuster days before

Less than two weeks before the accident at Three Mile Island, a Hollywood thriller depicting the frightening scenario of a disaster at a nuclear plant hit the screens.

6 years ago

Registered nurse Nicole Rodriguez draws a dose of mumps vaccine at the Temple student health center. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Why
Health

Down in the mumps: Why Temple students got the virus decades after development of a vaccine

Temple University's mumps outbreak started just before spring break earlier this month. Why would there be an outbreak of an illness we've had a vaccine for since the 1960s?

Air Date: March 18, 2019

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