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Health & Science

An all-sky view of stars in our Galaxy – the Milky Way – and neighbouring galaxies, based on the first year of observations from ESA’s Gaia satellite, from July 2014 to September 2015.
Skytalk
Science

On the Prowl for Planets

The successor to the highly successful Kepler planet-hunting satellite TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) sent the first data d ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018

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Barb Williamson runs a drug recovery house in Bucks County. She recently changed her policy after complaints that she wasn't admitting people who use medication-assisted treatments such as Suboxone. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Health

On front lines of opioid crisis, recovery houses slowly accepting contested treatment approach

Patients using medication-assisted treatments slowly being accepted into group recovery homes.

8 years ago

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Screening for lung cancer can catch tumors but it can also produce false positives. Patients need to decide whether it's right for them, but doctors often don't know how to advise them. (FS Productions/Getty Images/Blend Images)
NPR
Health

Should you get that scan? Your doctor might not be great at helping you decide

"It's about a deeper issue: ... Is healthcare structured to give patients the information they need to make informed decisions?"

8 years ago

The sign on a Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh, photographed in 2017.
(Gene J. Puskar/AP)
NPR
Health

Chipotle to retrain employees after latest outbreak of food poisoning

Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

8 years ago

Adesola Ogunleye holds a picture of herself as a young child. She says childhood abuse has played into the anxiety she deals with now, as an adult. (Liz Tung/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Childhood stress wires the brain for adult anxiety

For Adesola Ogunleye, it took more than 20 years to understand the roots of her anxiety

8 years ago

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Patient Aaron Reid receives (CAR) T-cell therapy at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. The process took five minutes to complete. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Science

Scientists race to improve ‘living drugs’ to fight cancer

The engineered cells are made by extracting T cells — a key part of the immune system -- from each patient's blood and then genetically modifying them in the lab.

8 years ago

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?

8 years ago

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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.

8 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.

8 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. 

8 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.

8 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.

8 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!"

8 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

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