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Health & Science

Chantel Williams exhales a puff of vapor from a Juul pen in Vancouver, Wash., Tuesday, April 16, 2019. (Craig Mitchelldyer/AP Photo)
Health

Juul nicotine hit may be ‘worst for kids, best for smokers’

The brainchild of two Stanford University design students, Juul launched in 2015 and quickly leapfrogged over its competitors.

7 years ago

David Calderwood and Crystal Abel of Newport, Vt., sit with Abel's dogs Mike (left) and Zoe. David lives in Crystal's house, and she helps him with his medications and medical needs. He pays room and board, and Abel is also compensated by the state with Medicaid dollars.
(Emily Corwin/Vermont Public Radio)
NPR
Health

A workable alternative to nursing homes — adult family care

As baby boomers age and the workforce shrinks, there may not be enough people or money to care for all our elders, especially those with medical needs.

7 years ago

FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2017, file photo Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and robotics researcher Cynthia Breazeal reaches to touch social robot Jibo at the company's headquarters in Boston. When robots move like humans and talk like humans, even if only a little bit, it’s natural that we will treat them more like humans. (Steven Senne/AP Photo, File)
Science

Be wary of robot emotions; ‘simulated love is never love’

When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes," and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome.

7 years ago

Peter Nunn's parents sent him to conversion therapy when he was 15 years old. (Leila Fadel/NPR)
NPR
Health

Activists and suicide prevention groups seek bans on conversion therapy for minors

The American Psychiatric Association says ethical practitioners shouldn't try to change someone's sexuality because of their responsibility to do no harm.

7 years ago

Science

New study says universe expanding faster and is younger than we thought

The universe is expanding faster than it used to, meaning it's about a billion years younger than we thought, a new study by a Nobel Prize winner says.

7 years ago

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Science

Philadelphia Science Festival

The Philadelphia Science Festival encompasses nine days of more than 80 extraordinary, mostly free science events all around the city fro ...

Air Date: April 27, 2019

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Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers load bottled water onto a CH-47 Chinook helicopter September 1 at Fort Indiantown Gap in preparation to depart for the Hurricane Harvey relief effort in Texas. (U.S. National Guard photo by Sgt. Zane Craig)
Health

Area police departments, National Guard join forces to collect prescription meds

It's the fifth year the guard's Counterdrug Joint Task Force is working with police to collect the drugs from more than 800 drop-off centers around the state.

7 years ago

 (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo, file)
The Pulse
Health

Marijuana Now

Marijuana is starting to feel like the new normal. In less than 25 years, it’s gone from illicit drug to accepted medical treatment in ...

Air Date: April 26, 2019

Listen 48:54
Palliative care is a growing specialty that provides comfort care and that teaches patients and doctors how to talk about patients' goals for life with serious disease — and how to prepare for a good ending. (Sturti/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

A good life and a good death: What is palliative care?

Few people would say they want to die while undergoing painful last-minute resuscitation or while hooked up to machines in a hospital.

7 years ago

Crews work at the site of a sinkhole along the Mariner East pipeline route near the Pennsylvania State Police barracks on Route 1 in Delaware County on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Pipeline builder said there were no leaks and no pipelines were exposed. (Kimberly Paynter / WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sinkhole opens up along ME2 route in Delaware County; no leaks or injuries

Sunoco says hole has been filled and pipeline operations continue

7 years ago

PFAS are toxic chemicals commonly found in clothing and non-stick cookware like teflon. York County homeowner Nathan Volpi found out getting his water tested was neither easy nor cheap (Wallace McKelvey/PennLive)
Health
PA Post

PFAS chemicals in drinking water: How one Pa. homeowner took matters into his own hands

The more Nathan Volpi learned about PFAS, a man-made chemical linked to various health conditions that isn’t routinely tested for in drinking water, the more it troubled him.

7 years ago

Nick Messitte tried to quit marijuana on his own, and found he couldn't. (Image courtesy of Nick Messitte)
The Pulse
Health

Self-described pothead in recovery looks into the science and public policy around marijuana and addiction

He tried to quit weed on his own, and couldn’t

7 years ago

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Canon-McMillan High School in Washington County. (Courtesy of Marcellus Air)
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

No cancer cluster in Washington County school district, says Pa. health department

In a report released Tuesday, the state concluded that rates of Ewing sarcoma weren’t “consistently or statistically significantly higher than expected."

7 years ago

Syringe used by diabetics. (Photo: Melissa Wiese via Wikipedia.org)
Health

In Middletown, Delaware, used needles will also be accepted on ‘Drug Take Back Day’

Diabetes and other injection-drug users looking for a safe way to dispose of used needles can do so Saturday on Drug Take Back Day in Middletown, Delaware.

7 years ago

Surrounded by student supporters of the hellbender — and a mascot — Gov. Tom Wolf signs a bill officially designating the salamander as state amphibian. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Science

Snot otter? Lasagna lizard? By any name, hellbender now Pa.’s official amphibian

It may not be pretty, but supporters of the Eastern hellbender say it’s a vital reminder to keep streams and waterways healthy.

7 years ago

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