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Anesthesiologist Kevin Guynn M.D greets a pre-med student at Temple University's An Evening with Black Men in Medicine event. (Brad  Larrison for WHYY)
Health

Temple brings black men in medicine together to boost doctors of color

Temple University’s medical school gathered black physicians and young African-American men who are considering medicine.

8 years ago

Water pours from a faucet.
Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

State to hold public meeting on PFAS contamination

The meeting will be held Friday, November 30 at 9am the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg and will also be live-streamed online.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Health

How hippie food became mainstream

Guests: Jonathan Kauffman, Judy Wicks Yogurt, brown rice, tofu, soy sauce — a lot of American’s modern mainst ...

Air Date: November 21, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Surgeons at work during a surgery.
Health

Philly doctors join national debate with NRA over gun safety

Dr. Samir Mehta treats a lot of gunshot victims. He doesn’t always see them in a crisis setting, like an ER doctor would, but he’s dealing with the long-term impacts.

8 years ago

The Milky Way's Galactic Center in the night sky above the Paranal Observatory (the laser creates a guide-star for the telescope). ESO/Y. Beletsky
Skytalk
Science

Hidden In Plain Sight

Our Milky Way has two very well known galactic companions: The Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds, irregular-shaped galaxies both abou ...

Air Date: November 19, 2018

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(Bigstock photo)
Radio Times
Health

Sleepless in America

Guests: Sigrid Veasey, Ilene Rosen, Lauren Hale Getting a bad night’s sleep feels awful. And in recent years we ...

Air Date: November 19, 2018 12:00 am

Listen 46:27
A firefighter searches a trailer park destroyed in the Camp Fire on Friday Paradise, Calif. (John Locher/AP)
NPR
Health

California offers safe space for firefighters to work through stress and trauma

Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.

8 years ago

Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to detect if a user might be about engage in self-harm. The same technology may soon be used in other scenarios. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)
NPR
Health

Facebook increasingly reliant on A.I. to predict suicide risk

A year ago, Facebook started using artificial intelligence to scan people's accounts for danger signs of imminent self-harm.

8 years ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018, a weight is set up at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in Sevres, near Paris. The golf ball-sized metal cylinder at the heart of the world's system for measuring mass is heading into retirement. Gathering this week in Versailles, west of Paris, governments on Friday Nov. 16, 2018, are expected to approve a plan to instead use a scientific formula to define the exact weight of a kilo. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)
Science

Take a weight off: Tears, joy as kilo gets historic update

"We put in place a system that doesn't depend on something that is 140 years old."

8 years ago

Becky Shaw's first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage in 2014. The following year, she and her husband, Ben, had Parker, their
NPR
Health

Michelle Obama’s miscarriage story may help other women share theirs

8 years ago

Preventable hospital admissions are down 25 percent in the University of Pennsylvania Health System. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file)
Health

Penn Medicine and IBX say they cut readmissions 25 percent

Harlan Krumholz ...

8 years ago

The Pulse
Health

We’re Family — But Why?

Ever sit down to Thanksgiving dinner, look around at the shining faces of your family, and think to yourself: “How the heck am I relate ...

Air Date: November 16, 2018

Listen 47:22
The city of Philadelphia is once again clearing out camps of people in Kensington like the one at Frankford and Lehigh Avenues. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

As Philly clears another encampment, what happened to homeless in previous sweep?

On Monday afternoon, a row of tents ran end to end in the Frankford Avenue underpass just north of Lehigh Avenue in Philadelphia’s Kens ...

8 years ago

Listen 4:03
Fred Gmitter, a geneticist at the University of Florida Citrus Research and Education Center, holds citrus seedlings that are used for gene editing research at the University of Florida in Lake Alfred, Fla., on Sept. 27, 2018. Gene-editing tools, with names like CRISPR and TALEN, promise to alter foods precisely, and cheaply _ without necessarily adding foreign DNA. Instead, they act like molecular scissors to alter the letters of an organism's own genetic alphabet. (Federica Narancio/AP Photo)
Science

Next generation of biotech food heading for grocery stores

It's a different technology than today's controversial "genetically modified" foods.

8 years ago

The former Harrisburg State Hospital closed in 2006 and now serves as government offices. (Brett Sholtis/WITF)
Health

People with serious mental illnesses in Pa. face long wait for treatment

In the 12 years since Harrisburg State Hospital closed, state funding for community mental health services has decreased, leaving services 'stretched thin.'

8 years ago

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