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This Aug. 15, 2017 file photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen  (Patrick Sison/AP Photo, File)
Radio Times
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Prescribing opioids

Guests: Anupam Jena, Jonathan Reisman The staggering rise of opioid-related deaths in America has reached critica ...

Air Date: March 27, 2018 10:00 am

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Apps that deliver birth control pills in the mail help provide a service in
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Birth control apps find a big market in ‘contraception deserts’

7 years ago

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How Big is Big?

An acceptable range for the estimated number of galaxies in the universe is between 100 and 200 billion, according to astronomer Mario Li ...

Air Date: March 26, 2018

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Can Open Relationships Last?

About 5% of couples have open relationships – where the partners are committed to staying together, but see other people. In ...

Air Date: March 26, 2018

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A sign on farmland near Palmerton in northeast Pennsylvania shows local opposition to the PennEast pipleline. In order to build the pipeline, PennEast Pipeline Co. is trying to seize through eminent domain some lands that are under farmland preservation.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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N.J. files in federal court to stop PennEast from condemning protected land

7 years ago

Health

Drawing from another perspective, City Hall exhibit features work by artists with autism

The work is part of the 2018 Philadelphia Autism Project Art Show, which called on the autistic community to submit works conveying their experiences of the city.

7 years ago

Cows from a dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania. (Dani Fresh for WHYY)
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As milk prices fall, dairy farmers in Pennsylvania seek mental health support

Milk prices have been falling for several years because supply is outpacing demand. Milk prices are so low, some farmers are losing money every day.

7 years ago

Marianne and Rick Atkinson with their dog Spot, on their property in Clearfield County. (Susan Phillips/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Wastewater well opposed by some Pa. residents secures state permit

Marianne Atkinson of Brady Township said her family’s water well is 900 feet from the proposed injection site.

7 years ago

Teenagers take turns jumping into the Musconetcong river just below the Asbury Mill Dam. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Federal budget includes $5M for Delaware River clean up

The $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Donald Trump on Friday unexpectedly brought good news for environmentalists.

7 years ago

Scott Reynolds, owner of Express Transmission in Beaver County, shows an array of gas cap adapters. The adapters are used as a part of Pennsylvania's vehicle emission testing program. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Could some Pa. counties scrap the annual vehicle emissions test? A study aims to figure that out

Emission tests are required in 25 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

7 years ago

Dr. Garen Wintemute at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center, says of the new authority given to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
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Spending bill lets CDC study gun violence; but researchers are skeptical it will help

Some worry that rather than freeing up the CDC to fund more research on gun violence, the new language might do the opposite, by seeming to limit CDC funding.

7 years ago

This 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas was underway at a site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Report: Severance tax proposal could cost Pa. mineral owners millions

“States that levy a natural gas severance tax allow those costs to be treated like a post-production cost,” IFO director Matthew Knittel wrote.

7 years ago

June Rodgers, of Millville, New Jersey, sued former Gov. Chris Christie and other state officials after her son was allegedly murdered by a man released under the state’s new bail system. (Angela Gervasi for WHYY)
The Pulse
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Mother of slain N.J. man blames computer program for his shooting

In New Jersey, there’s a bail algorithm designed to recommend whether you sit behind bars or walk free until your trial. The state’s court system recently abandoned cash bail.

7 years ago

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Joe Schrank (left) ,program director of High Sobriety, and Devin Reaves, director of the Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition, answer questions about medical marijuana and opioid addiction during a program at the University of the Sciences.
Health

USciences event considers marijuana as ‘condom of the opioid crisis’

A discussion at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia looked at whether medical marijuana has a place in alleviating Pennsylvania’s opioid crisis.

7 years ago

Polen Run in Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Groups oppose another coal mining permit in Greene County state park

They argue that longwall mining, the technique Consol would use to mine beneath the stream, can cause ground beneath streams to fall in.

7 years ago

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