Health & Science
Study: Climate change will stress corn production, dairy industry in southern Pa.
Farmers in southern Pa. will face higher temps and changes to the growing season that will place stresses on corn production and the dairy industry.
8 years ago
Science and the Fourth of July
Rebroadcast: Happy Birthday, America! From the very beginning, science has shaped this country. Many of the Founding Fathers — Madison, ...
Air Date: June 29, 2018
Listen 48:59New stormwater basin reduces flows into Philadelphia sewer system
The new facility will capture 60 million gallons a year of runoff from 20 commercial properties in Northeast Philadelphia.
8 years ago
Health officials warn of fentanyl contamination after ODs kill 2 crack-cocaine users
Fentanyl, many times stronger than heroin, was responsible for a surge of drug overdose deaths in Philadelphia last year.
8 years ago
Philly offers affordable housing to help parents regain custody of kids in foster care
In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.
8 years ago
N.J. lawmakers consider constitutional guarantee to fund lead abatement effort
Since the state established a lead abatement program in 2004, more than $50 million has been diverted from its fund toward other uses.
8 years ago
FDA increasingly approves drugs without conclusive proof they work
The FDA is increasingly green-lighting expensive drugs despite dangerous or little-known side effects and inconclusive evidence that they curb or cure disease
8 years ago
Unlike last late June, ocean temperatures are comfortable — for now
New Jersey beachgoers can swim comfortably as of early this week, a striking contrast to this time last year.
8 years ago
Pediatrician who exposed Flint water crisis shares her ‘story of resistance’
As Mona Hanna-Attisha began reviewing her patients' medical records, she noticed the percentage of children with elevated lead levels had increased after the water switch.
8 years ago
Dave Heller and Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute, discuss efforts to peer all the way back in time and space wit ...
Air Date: June 25, 2018
Listen 13:05Philly tries a different approach for training nurse practitioners
There's a shortage of primary care providers. University of Pennsylvania is testing a model, using Medicare funds, to train more nurse practitioners.
8 years ago
30 years of data show how much the U.S. has warmed. Now the race is on to adapt
Eastern Pa., New Jersey and Delaware have seen a rise of about 2 degrees.
8 years ago
Fearing deportation, some immigrants opt out of health benefits for their kids
"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."
8 years ago
Dangerous jellyfish now found in northern Barnegat Bay
A dangerous invasive jellyfish continues to move south along internal Jersey Shore waterways. The clinging jellyfish, packing a po ...
8 years ago
Death rate from opioid epidemic could be higher than estimated, Rutgers study finds
Those who overdosed were at a much higher risk of death the following year from drug use-associated diseases, HIV, chronic respiratory diseases, viral hepatitis, and suicide.
8 years ago
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