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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Health & Science

A combination vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella protects kids against all three illnesses with one shot. (Courtney Perry/The Washington Post/Getty Images)
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States move to restrict parents’ refusal to vaccinate their kids

At least eight states, including some that have experienced measles outbreaks this year, want to remove personal exemptions for the measles vaccine.

7 years ago

Carol Orzel had FOP, a rare disorder in which connective tissue is replaced by bone. She wished her skeleton to be displayed at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Science

Philly woman with rare bone disease donates skeleton to Mütter Museum

The bequest was Carol Orzel’s dying wish, so that others could learn more about her rare disease, fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

7 years ago

Recycling bins on Cuthbert Street in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Radio Times
Health

Burning plastic recyclables

Since China has stopped accepting America's plastic recyclables, one solution to dealing with the excess material has been to burn it in already-existing trash incinerators.

Air Date: March 1, 2019 10:00 am

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Dr Andrew McKemey releasing Oxitec male mosquitos. (Courtesy of Oxitec)
Health

N.J. faces growing health threat from virus-carrying mosquitoes

Rising temperatures and longer mosquito season create a ‘perfect storm’ for virus transmission.

7 years ago

In their classic radio show, Car Talk, hosts Ray and Tom Magliozzi, demonstrated what some doctors consider an ideal example of the thinking doctors need to learn to make a good medical diagnosis. (Liz Linder/WBUR)
NPR
Health

‘Does your knee make more of a click or a clack?’ — Teaching ‘Car Talk’ to new docs

A handful of physicians are using the show to teach medical students how to diagnose disease.

7 years ago

Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania Department of Health secretary, speaks with reporters. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Science

Pa. Health Department hiring scientists to study PFAS chemicals in drinking water

Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection has pinpointed 20 locations with high PFAS levels in water sources. They include areas of Bucks and Montgomery counties.

7 years ago

A student walks in the hallway past a water fountain at Noble School in Detroit, Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. (Paul Sancya/AP Photo)
Health
NJ Spotlight

Criticizing inaction on lead in N.J. schools’ drinking water supplies

The Department of Education was invited to be part of the roundtable event but declined.

7 years ago

Cooper University Hospital in Camden
Health

To-go drugs aim to keep repeat patients out of the emergency room

It can be hard for some ER patients to fill prescriptions, so a new Temple program sends them home with medicine, to keep them from coming back.

7 years ago

Carol Marley, a hospital nurse with private insurance, says coping with the financial fallout of her pancreatic cancer has been exhausting. (Anna Gorman/KHN)
NPR
Health

Cancer complications: Confusing bills, maddening errors and endless phone calls

Cancer patients are 2.65 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death.

7 years ago

New Sunrise Movement student activists Abby Leddy (left) and Xavier Thomas outside Congressman Dwight Evan’s office. They spoke to him about his supporting the Green New Deal. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Science
PlanPhilly

Philly students call for Green New Deal citing spike in ‘heat days’

The only member of Pennsylvania’s delegation to support the resolution to date is Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle from Northeast Philly.

7 years ago

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Robin Meredith)
Health

Possible chemical contamination near Delaware military installation

The CDC will test residents around the New Castle Air National Guard Base who may have been exposed to PFAS, a group of chemicals that that may increase the risk of cancer.

7 years ago

Cooling towers at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Read a draft of Pennsylvania’s nuclear bailout bill

The draft, obtained by StateImpact Pennsylvania, is being actively worked on by state lawmakers, and the specifics could change.

7 years ago

Energy Transfer, the parent company of Mariner East 2 pipeline builder, Sunoco, works at Snitz Creek in West Cornwall Township, Lebanon County after a drilling mud spill during the summer. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Energy Transfer CEO: ‘We’ve made mistakes’ in building Mariner East

Critics say promises won’t make the cross-state pipeline project any safer.

7 years ago

Pins on display at Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral at a Planned Parenthood event. (Branden Eastwood for WHYY)
Health
NJ Spotlight

Federal changes to funding of family planning spark outrage in N.J.

The Trump administration’s new rules would place further restrictions on how organizations in receipt of Title X money could operate.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Science

Volunteers Needed for Stellar Sleuthing

Wanna get your hands dirty in astronomy? Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 is a newly revised version of a Zooniverse Citizen Scientist data-mini ...

Air Date: February 25, 2019

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