
Health & Science
Pennsylvania cuts red tape for medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction
Pa.'s Medicaid program will no longer require doctors to get approval when prescribing medications that are proven to help people stay off heroin and prescription painkillers.
7 years ago
Listen 1:45Discussing Philadelphia’s daily violence that’s overshadowed by mass shootings
Early numbers from the Department of Health show a slight uptick in gun homicides last year after they’d been steadily declining since 2006.
7 years ago
What happens when a Buddhist environmentalist, a Muslim astronomer … a rabbi and a priest walk into our studio? On this episode, we exp ...
Air Date: March 2, 2018
Listen 49:20As flu season peaks in N.J. and Pa., doctors still recommend getting vaccinated
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the flu season may have peaked, it’s still making a lot of people sick in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
7 years ago
How this reporter’s #NoDAPL photo wound up in the Russia investigations
Never did I imagine a photo I took would be used by Russian trolls to try to manipulate the pipeline debate.
7 years ago
Philly Disability Day of Mourning a step toward honoring those killed by caregivers
Philly City Council passed a resolution to recognize a Disability Day of Mourning, a step toward valuing the lives of people with disabilities who are murdered by caregivers.
7 years ago
Author answers hot-button questions on fracking, including climate impact
As Pennsylvania’s gas boom helps propel the United States away from coal-fired power, one energy researcher says the impact on climate change will be a wash.
7 years ago
Too late to operate? Surgery near end of life is common, costly
Surgery poses serious risks for older people, who weather anesthesia poorly and whose skin takes longer to heal.
7 years ago
Astronomers glimpse cosmic dawn, when the stars switched on
The signal showed unexpectedly cold temperatures and an unusually pronounced wave.
7 years ago
Environmental groups seek injunction to halt Mariner East 2 pipeline construction
Several environmental groups have asked the Commonwealth Court for an injunction to halt Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Mariner East 2 pipeline construction.
7 years ago
As FDA encourages new medications for opioid addiction, roadblocks to treatment remain
The FDA is expected to issue new guidelines next month to encourage drugmakers to develop new medications for treating opioid addiction.
7 years ago
Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep
Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.
7 years ago
Severity of flu season illustrates need for paid sick days in N.J., advocates say
The legislation under consideration would require employers with fewer than 10 workers to offer five paid sick days. Larger employers would have to provide nine paid days.
7 years ago
Flu ‘very much active’ in Delaware, records reach 14-year high
Over the past week, 1,521 more Delawareans were diagnosed with the flu, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5,758. There also were five flu-related deaths.
7 years ago
Guests: Michio Kaku Physicist and futurist MICHIO KAKU theorizes ...
Air Date: February 26, 2018
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