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In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds a 49-day-old baby boy being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
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Christie: Doctors key to cutting through opioid epidemic — yet some share blame

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s latest stop on a state-wide anti-opioid abuse tour was on Monday, in Princeton. Nearly 200 health ...

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Cities oppose state bill that would stop them curbing use of plastic bags

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Can negative people learn to look on the bright side?

Most of us know somebody who is always negative – predicting worst-case scenarios, seeing only what wen ...

Air Date: May 1, 2017

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May Day, May Day!

Now more commonly observed as a celebration of spring, in older times May 1st was considered the first day of summer in some European cou ...

Air Date: May 1, 2017

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 Carolina Garzon and her baby, Emma. (Alex Stern/WHYY)
The Pulse
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How one mom got through losing her first pregnancy

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

9 years ago

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 Bioengineer Nancy Pleshko ordered takeout from an Italian restaurant on her way from her lab at Temple University to her home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. This is what she and her two teenage children at home have for dinner around once a week, to save time. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
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The ‘baby penalty’ often sidelines female scientists

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

9 years ago

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 Dr. John Zimmerly reassures one of his pregnant patients, Kim. (Elizabeth Fiedler/WHYY)
The Pulse
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Lack of doctors puts rural mothers and babies at risk

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...

9 years ago

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New Jersey rejects PennEast application for water permit for now, gives company new deadline

9 years ago

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Chesco residents urge officials to reject development plan for contaminated site

9 years ago

 Students and faculty from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy answer questions about filling orders for Naloxone from David Ostrow at Cambria Pharmacy in Fairhill. (Joel Wolfram/for NewsWorks)
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Pharmacy students see first hand Philadelphia’s naloxone shortage

Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...

9 years ago

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Study: Fracking didn’t impact West Virginia groundwater, but wastewater spills pollute streams

9 years ago

August Clayton, 5, builds a geodesic dome, a shape popularized by innovator Richard Buckminster Fuller.
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Innovation and inspiration for kids at Philadelphia Science Festival

When you are young, the science bug might bite you at any time. For a young boy named Sonny Viscelli, it happened during a visit to the T ...

9 years ago

 The Jackson family has been balancing public and private life after Avery Jackson, 9, was featured on the cover of National Geographic. (Courtesy of Debi Jackson)
The Pulse
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It’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

9 years ago

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 Biologist Patricia Brennan prepares a female dolphin’s reproductive tract for dissection. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
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Why we should pay for science that sounds silly

A biologist says her research on dolphin sex is worth public investment. A whole bunch of dolphin clitorises are laid out on a tab ...

9 years ago

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 A view of the 'Badlands' of Kensington, Philadelphia. (Courtenay harris Bond)
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Under the bridge, a world of pain not so far from any of us

The suffering I witnessed in the course of some recent reporting I did on the opioid epidemic weighed more heavily on me than a ...

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