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The Pulse
Science

When Panic Attacks

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety ta ...

Air Date: August 17, 2018

Listen 48:36
Zack DiGregorio
The Pulse
Health

Inside a panic attack

Our bodies are programmed to go on alert in the face of danger. But what happens when that reflex goes haywire?

7 years ago

Listen 4:47
Marlon Munoz still becomes emotional when he remembers having to tell his wife, Aibi Perez, that she had breast cancer, because no other interpreter was available to share the news. (Ryan Collerd for Undark)
NPR
Health

With scarce access to interpreters, immigrants struggle to understand doctors’ orders

The 1964 Civil Rights Act require hospitals and other facilities that offer medical services and receive federal funds to provide "meaningful access" to patients.

7 years ago

A new report out of Penn State University says corn production in the Southeastern part of the state could be especially vulnerable in the coming decades. (Photo provided by Greg Roth/Penn State)
Keystone Crossroads
Science

Ahead of climate change projections, some Pa. farmers make adaptations to new weather patterns

For many farmers in the state, last month's intense precipitation is part of a pattern of weather changes of which they are trying to adapt.

7 years ago

(Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Health

For first time in at least 20 years, swimming prohibited at Seaside Heights beaches Thursday

It's a historic day in Seaside Heights but not for a good reason. 

7 years ago

A Guadalupe fur seal, foreground. Rescue crews are seeing a higher than average amount of stranded sea lions. Marine biologists nicknamed a patch of persistent high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean between 2013 and 2016 “the Blob.” During that period, decreased phytoplankton production led to a “lack of food for many species,” from fish to marine mammals. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Science

Under the sea, marine heat waves can wreak havoc on wildlife

Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves.

7 years ago

The Nashik Civil District Hospital is a government facility about 100 miles outside Mumbai. The director, Dr. Suresh Jagdale, acknowledges that the mortality rate is higher than that of private hospitals, but he says he's proud to offer free health treatment to India's poor.
(Lauren Frayer/NPR)
NPR
Health

India aims for the world’s biggest health care overhaul

In his annual Independence Day speech on Wednesday, Narendra Modi is expected to unveil the biggest government health care program in the world.

7 years ago

(Lily Padula/NPR)
NPR
Health

To fix that pain in your back, you might have to change the way you sit

It really doesn't matter where I am — at work, at a restaurant, even on our couch at home. My lower back screams, "Stop sitting!"

7 years ago

Voices in the Family
Health

Parents, Put Down Your Devices

Parents spend a lot of time arguing with their kids about screen time, trying to limit access to smart phones, and social media. B ...

Air Date: August 13, 2018

Listen 04:29
Aviv Regev, a core member of the Broad Institute, is leading the international Human Cell Atlas Consortium.
(Casey Atkins/Broad Institute)
NPR
Science

Ambitious ‘Human Cell Atlas’ aims to catalog every type of cell in the body

The Human Cell Atlas Consortium aims to account for and better understand every cell type and sub-type, and how they interact.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Science

Time to Start Spotting Sunspots

The current (approximately 11-year-long) Solar Cycle is about to come to an end. Several years of long stretches of days without sunspot ...

Air Date: August 13, 2018

Listen 07:40
Sanitation workers clear away mounds of garbage from a heroin encampment at Lehigh and Kensington avenues. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Don’t call people ‘addicts,’ Penn researchers say

'Terms that seem to label the person have the higher levels of bias,' researcher says.

7 years ago

Inducing labor at 39 weeks may involve IV medications and continuous fetal monitoring. But if the pregnancy is otherwise uncomplicated, mother and baby can do just fine, the latest evidence suggests. (Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Pregnancy debate revisited: to induce labor, or not?

Healthy women with normal pregnancies can opt to have labor induced without worrying that the decision will make a cesarean section more likely.

7 years ago

Bea and Doug Duncan outside their home in Natick, Mass. The coaching they got from the Community Reinforcement and Family Training program, they say, gave them tools to help their son Jeff stick to his recovery from drug use. He's 28 now and has been sober for nine years. (Robin Lubbbock/WBUR)
NPR
Health

Families choose empathy over ‘tough love’ to rescue loved ones from opioids

7 years ago

NPR
Science

NASA braves the heat to get up close and personal with our sun

Early Saturday morning, if all goes as planned, 91-year-old Eugene Parker will watch a NASA spacecraft named after him blast off on an unprecedented mission to study the sun.

7 years ago

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