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Health & Science

Volunteers and residents mingle in Camp Alpha at dinnertime.
The Pulse
Health

Offering homeless vets social support first — before housing

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

8 years ago

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First-person shooters like 'Battlefield 3' have become very realistic.
The Pulse
Science

How online gaming communities kept two veterans from suicide

The military has a long history of using games in training, but troops also enjoy playing video games during their downtime, and some military gaming communities even help

8 years ago

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An NJ Transit train pulls into the station (Mel Evans/AP, file)
Health

44 train engineers diagnosed with sleep apnea, sidelined

Dozens of New Jersey Transit train engineers have been sidelined because testing imposed after a deadly rail crash found they suffered from sleep apnea.

8 years ago

A pipeline construction site in Jackson Township, Butler County, Pa. A recent ruling over a disputed valve station in Chester County has created more construction delays for the Mariner East 2 natural gas liquids pipeline. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Mariner East 2 pipeline completion delayed again

The controversial cross-state project has been beset with technical, environmental and regulatory challenges.

8 years ago

Salvador Minuchin (CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=742801)
Health

Philadelphia therapists reflect on legacy of innovator Salvador Minuchin

The psychiatrist and innovator in the field of family therapy died last week at the age of 96. 

8 years ago

Skytalk
Science

Water, Water Everywhere!

Studies of asteroids are revealing that they might have a watery history. The DAWN spacecraft orbiting Ceres has provided data that sugge ...

Air Date: November 7, 2017

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Voices in the Family
Health

Are relationships the key to a longer, happier life?

A Harvard research study spanning 80 years that looked into the life and health trajectories of well over a thousand people offers some i ...

Air Date: November 6, 2017

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Health

Pennsylvania opens medical marijuana registry for patients, caregivers

Once people sign up, it’s up to state-approved doctors to decide whether to grant a medical marijuana card.

8 years ago

Advocates for Pennsylvania mineral owners are criticizing a comment by one of Gov. Wolf's senior aides, who says complaints over royalty payments have subsided. (Joe Ulrich/ WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

‘People are furious’: Wolf aide criticized after downplaying royalty problems

Advocates for Pennsylvania landowners are challenging a statement made recently by one of Governor Tom Wolf’s top aides, after saying complaints over gas royalties subsided.

8 years ago

Activists in Lancaster County offered pipeline workers a pancake breakfast Friday morning, but the invitation was declined. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Activists offer pancakes to pipeline workers, are rebuffed

Activists set up a pancake breakfast picnic on an Amish farm in Conestoga adjacent to a construction site and invited the pipeline workers to share a meal.

8 years ago

A natural gas power plant in Masontown, Pa. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

Natural gas plant proposed for coal-rich Greene County

A New York company is planning to build a natural gas plant in Pennsylvania’s biggest coal county.

8 years ago

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
Science

EPA bars scientists with agency funding from advisory boards

The Environmental Protection Agency's Administrator, Scott Pruitt, has issued a new policy restricting who can serve on the agency's advisory boards.

8 years ago

The Pulse
Science

Abandoned

What happens when we step away from people and places?

Air Date: November 3, 2017

Listen 48:50
Nancy Quinn stands in front of the bakery she works at in Philadelphia's Northern Liberties neighborhood. (Joel Wolfram/for WHYY)
Health

ACA enrollees confused by letters estimating higher rate hikes than expected

Many enrollees received letters from their insurance company noting increased premiums for 2018 but they didn't include updated subsidy amounts.

8 years ago

José, Nelly and Gloria Guity in the cafeteria of Miami Edison Senior High School the day before Irma hit Miami. (Kate Stein/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

During Irma, some Miami evacuees felt left behind in their own city

As the hurricane threatened, Miami-Dade County opened more than 40 shelters for people who needed a safe place to go. Some low-income, vulnerable people needed more support.

8 years ago

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