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More than 440,000 Starbucks mugs recalled after reports of a dozen injuries

The mugs were manufactured by Nestlé USA and sold as part of a 2023 holiday Starbucks-branded gift set sold online and at Target, Walmart and Nexcom.

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Liquid Death Founder Mike Cessario, Fixing Philadelphia’s Littering Problem

You’ve probably seen Liquid Death at parties, bars, and grocery stores. Yes, the tall-boy aluminum cans with heavy metal lettering ...

Air Date: March 21, 2024 12:00 pm

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U.S. maternal mortality rates ‘not as bad as previously thought’ says Rutgers epidemiologist, researchers in new study

Researchers found a much lower mortality rate — 10.4 deaths per every 100,000 births — after investigating data collected by the CDC.

2 years ago

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In a pandemic milestone, the NIH ends guidance on COVID treatment

The National Institutes of Health is sunsetting its influential COVID-19 treatment guidelines, used by millions of doctors to guide care during the pandemic.

2 years ago

A couple wearing masks curb the spread of the new coronavirus sit together at a public park in on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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How the COVID-19 pandemic changed relationships, and how to move forward

The pandemic and its fallout forged new bones of contention between friends and families. Psychologist Dan Gottlieb offers advice on how to begin repairing those relationships

2 years ago

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Messages are written in chalk on a COVID-19 message board, during a partial lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, COVID-19, in Antwerp, Belgium, Thursday, May 14, 2020. Belgium has taken a major step in the relaxation of its lockdown with the opening of many of its shops, but under strict conditions.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
The Pulse
Health

The Lasting Impacts of COVID-19

We look at the pandemic’s continuing fallout and efforts to recover, from rehabbing public health’s reputation to the lonely search for a long COVID treatment.

Air Date: March 15, 2024

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Delta-8, an unregulated form of THC, is popular among high school students

It's milder than its cousin, delta-9 THC, the main intoxicant in marijuana, but has similar effects on the brain and the body.

2 years ago

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Health

Jefferson Health opens Honickman Center in Philly’s Market East

Jefferson Health plans to consolidate several specialties in the new building, which was designed with suggestions from patients and healthcare workers.

2 years ago

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Health

Nemours Children’s Health opens specialty care, ambulatory surgical center in Malvern

The 43,000-square-foot facility in Chester County will offer 18 medical and outpatient surgical specialties for children.

2 years ago

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Helen Fitzpatrick, 97, right, receives a COVID-19 vaccine administered by Dr. Hillary Cohen at Englewood Health
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New Jersey ‘failed’ to have an adequate response to COVID-19 pandemic, report finds

The report found that the state was not prepared to manage the crisis with limited resources, which was aggravated by the global supply chain breakdown.

2 years ago

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A group of kids from the Southwest Philadelphia Healthnastics program, ages 3-18, held signs at a protest demanding the Kenney administration do more to address gun violence in the city on Aug. 4, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philadelphia hospital program adds psychologists to bridge mental health services for trauma survivors

The new psychology team at the Penn Trauma Violence Recovery Program has already provided about 46 survivors with short- and long-term therapy.

2 years ago

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Atlantic City is one of the most flood-vulnerable coastal cities, report finds

A new study published in Nature measures whether land across 32 U.S. coastline cities is sinking or rising, and combines it with sea-level projections.

2 years ago

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‘Unique grief’: New Delaware group aims to offer better support for those left behind after suicide

Suicide deaths have been increasing in recent years. Now, a new effort in Delaware hopes to offer more support to those left behind.

2 years ago

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Philadelphia City Councilmember Nina Ahmad.
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Philadelphia City Council holds hearing on maternal deaths and health disparities

The Committee on Public Health and Human Services marked International Women’s Day on Friday with a conversation about addressing inequities in local health care systems.

2 years ago

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Health

UPenn professor receives $48.3 million to find new treatments in old drugs

Over the past few years, Every Cure has developed a blueprint for an AI-powered platform that can do what humans can’t — match thousands of diseases with thousands of drugs.

2 years ago

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