Health & Science
Study: Conventional drilling waste responsible for radioactivity spike in rivers
Treatment plants that handle conventional oil and gas waste water are causing a buildup of radioactive materials at the bottom of three Western Pennsylvania waterways.
6 years ago
Settlement: No longwall mining beneath state park stream in Greene County
6 years ago
Nuns want court to hear their religious objections to Atlantic Sunrise pipeline
6 years ago
International medical travelers a boon to Philadelphia
The Philadelphia region boasts more than 20 universities and colleges, as well as five medical schools and schools of nursing and health care administration.
6 years ago
Local specialists echo national concerns over ending behavioral health registry
Behavioral Health practitioners nationwide have used the registry’s list of hundreds of evidence-based practices as the industry standard for what works.
6 years ago
Local addiction specialists still waiting for federal support to trickle down
Elana Gordon, a reporter for WHYY’s The Pulse, joined NewsWorks Tonight to weigh in on the local response to federal action.
6 years ago
Listen 5:09Braving the wild for the perfect shot
Wildlife photographer Nick Nichols remembers a close call with a tigress.
6 years ago
Listen 4:10Returning wild animals to wild-ish places
We reintroduce animals to their native habitat as part of an impulse to re-create “wilderness” — a place untouched by man. The result is more like the feeling of wilderness.
6 years ago
Listen 10:37In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway
A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.
6 years ago
Listen 6:36Did logging help reclaim Missouri wilderness?
Since the 1950s, a timber company has used conservation-driven logging to balance productive use and wild forests.
6 years ago
Listen 6:21Musician visits Pa. school to help kids find their way beyond trauma
Valley Day School in Bucks County takes a trauma-informed approach to its students who have behavioral or emotional issues. Singer/songwriter Sam Baker can relate.
6 years ago
Listen 1:50Philly targets big pharma in suit over opioid epidemic
'This epidemic can be traced to the defendants' false and deceptive marketing to doctors — and to the public — that these drugs were safe and effective,' says city solicitor.
6 years ago
Aetna agrees to pay $17M in massive HIV privacy breach
Settlement funds will go to 12,000 Aetna subscribers. The fact they were taking HIV medication was revealed through an envelope window in correspondence from the insurer.
6 years ago
Listen 4:02Century after pandemic, science takes its best shot at flu
There's no way to predict what strain of the shape-shifting flu virus could trigger another pandemic or, given modern medical tools, how bad it might be.
6 years ago
Homeless shelter planned for opioid-afflicted Kensington won’t be ready this winter
The city promised in December it would open 30 more beds in the neighborhood by January, but city officials now estimate the space won’t open until late spring.
6 years ago
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