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Kevin Lawerence, of Wynnewood, was pleasantly surprised to receive a fresh bag of groceries during his appointment at Lankenau Hospital's integrated health practice.

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Take two aspirin and a bunch of Swiss chard: Hospital farm aims to promote patient wellness

Lankenau's Wellness Farm yields thousands of pounds of produce for distribution to patients at no charge.

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Mehnaz sits inside her home in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan. She has one son and six daughters. She has also had three abortions, fearing she would have more girls. (Diaa Hadid/NPR)

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Why the abortion rate in Pakistan is one of the world’s highest

Most of the women who seek abortions are married, poor and already have children.

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Chinese researcher He Jiankui spoke Wednesday during the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong. (Kin Cheung/AP)

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Facing backlash, scientist defends gene-editing research on babies

He Jiankui of the Southern University of Science and Technology in China, addressed hundreds of scientists gathered at an international gene-editing summit in Hong Kong.

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StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate petition calls on Pa. to cut emissions through cap-and-trade system

Among states, Pennsylvania is the third biggest emitter of carbon. The petition sets in motion a legal process that entails a response from the state.

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Health effects uncertain, high toxin levels found in blood of residents near military bases

Blood tests for more than 230 residents of Bucks and Montgomery counties have come back showing high levels of a class of toxic chemicals known as PFAS.

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In this Nov. 1, 2018 photo, Polly Varnado looks at her daughter's Medtronic insulin pump in Destin, Fla. Medical device manufacturers and experts say insulin pumps are safe. But an AP investigation found that insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest number of malfunction, injury and death reports in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s medical device database. (Holbrook Mohr/AP Photo)

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Insulin pumps have most reported problems in FDA database

Insulin pumps and their components are responsible for the highest overall number of malfunction, injury and death reports.

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In this June 22, 2016 photo made available by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, the FDA's Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health, speaks at FDA's Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Medical Device Amendments. Under Shuren, new device approvals have more than tripled, while warnings to device manufacturers about product safety and quality have fallen roughly 80 percent, an Associated Press investigation found. (Michael J. Ermarth/FDA via AP)

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U.S. goal to be ‘first’ on devices worries former regulators

Dr. Jeffrey Shuren was adamant: The United States would never cut corners to fast-track the approval of medical devices.

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Romaine lettuce is seen on sale at a supermarket in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning against all romaine lettuce just two days before Thanksgiving. Now the CDC has narrowed the source of the outbreak to California's central coast (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)

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Some romaine is fine to eat, but beware California, CDC says

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has traced an ongoing E. coli outbreak to romaine lettuce grown in the Central Coastal region of California.

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