
Health & Science
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
Listen 4:56Avalon 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 2:16Chinese 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 10:45Reconsidering 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
Listen 10:15Calling 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
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
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
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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