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Health & Science

Ornamental St. Johns Wort, found in The Benjamin Rush Medicinal Plant Garden located at The Mütter Museum, was used to treat depression. Early herbalists found it to have a calming affect. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Mütter gives new life to Founding Father’s medicinal garden

The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.

7 years ago

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Avalon's new weather station is mounted high above rooflines for accurate information (Borough of Avalon)
Science

Avalon adds high-tech weather equipment for real-time storm information

Avalon has invested in tracking equipment that will allow it to make weather conditions easily available to residents of the borough at t ...

7 years ago

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are studying barn owls to understand how the brain maintains focus.
(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)
NPR
Science

Scientists study barn owls to understand why people with ADHD struggle to focus

Kids with ADHD are easily distracted. Barn owls are not.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds-Brown holds up a test to check for excessive salt in food. A new city law requires restaurants to warn diners of high-sodium menu items. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Health

New law orders Philly restaurants to warn diners of high sodium

Philadelphia is only the second major city in the country to require sodium warnings.

7 years ago

Guthrie Medical Group executive David Hall speaks before the House Professional Licensure Committee, advocating for proposed Senate Bill 780, which would regulate telemedicine and require insurers to cover it. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
Health

Telemedicine bill draws support from providers, concern from insurers

The bill has already passed in the state senate and will go up for a vote in the house of representatives during the fall legislative session.

7 years ago

Residents in Ellendale, Delaware, voted Saturday to have public water. For decades, many have contended with smelly, discolored water from wells. (Courtesy of Jean Holloway)
Health

Ellendale residents to vote on public water system for Delaware town

The well water has tested positive for high levels of nitrates and iron. There’s discoloration and also a possible bacterial contamination in some of the shallow wells.

7 years ago

A work truck drives on Hwy 24 as the wind from Hurricane Florence blows palm trees in Swansboro N.C., Thursday, Sept. 13, 2018. (Tom Copeland/AP Photo)
Science

Florence close to landfall in N. Carolina

The powerful storm already has inundated coastal streets with ocean water and left tens of thousands without power.

7 years ago

Needles are bundled in tens for Philadelphia's Prevention Point's exchange program. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Camden may revive controversial needle-exchange program

Camden's new mayor approves of needle exchange location for the short term, but wants the program to find a permanent home elsewhere.

7 years ago

Riddles are hidden around the dummy and in the room during the
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Philly hospital uses ‘escape room’ to take the mystery out of sepsis

Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition that's responsible for 270,000 deaths every year.

7 years ago

Listen 2:16
Members at the Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center in Queens, New York, perform tai chi on a Friday morning (Jad Sleiman)
The Pulse
Health

Chinese elders ‘walk the middle path’ to better mental health

A senior center in Queens, New York offers dialectical behavior therapy —combining modern therapy and eastern philosophy to fight depression, anxiety.

7 years ago

Listen 10:45
Barbara Paulsen, 59, runs on a beach in Carmel, California. She plans to do everything she can to stay active as she ages. (Teo Furtado)
The Pulse
Health

Reconsidering hormone replacement therapy

In 2002, when a giant study ended, lots of women threw their estrogen pills in the trash. In her late 50s, Barbara Paulsen reexamines the latest evidence for herself.

7 years ago

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Vials of flavored liquid at a store selling electronic cigarettes and related items in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Health

Calling teen vaping ‘epidemic,’ officials weigh flavor ban

U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an "epidemic."

7 years ago

A scene from
Health

Opera raises curtain on living with schizophrenia

The idea is to address the stigma of mental illness with music. The opera is based on a memoir from a law and psychiatry professor.

7 years ago

Hurricane Florence will bring tropical storm conditions to North Carolina and South Carolina on Thursday and hurricane conditions on Friday. This satellite image was captured around 1:45 p.m. ET Wednesday. (NOAA/STAR)
Science

Time nearly up: Fierce Hurricane Florence aims at Southeast

Time is running short to flee Hurricane Florence, a monster of a storm zeroing in on the Southeastern coast with more than 10 million people in its potential path.

7 years ago

DCNR forester Ben Gamble, left, and Kelly Sitch, right, an ecologist for the agency, on a pipeline right-of-way in the Tiadaghton State Forest. (Reid R. Frazier/Allegheny Front)
NewsWorks Tonight
Science
Allegheny Front

Bringing the forest back after shale gas

The Pennsylvania DCNR is testing how best to revive areas cleared for fracking.

7 years ago

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