Health & Science
Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission advances move to harvest female horseshoe crabs
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.
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Closing Brandywine Hospital, creating a Chester County ‘health care desert’
The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.
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Why omicron is crushing hospitals — even though cases are often milder than delta
People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But hospitals are still struggling to treat the huge volume of patients.
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Omicron drives U.S. deaths higher than in fall’s delta wave
Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation.
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A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”
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Air Date: January 28, 2022
Listen 49:36‘Too sick to rest’: How long COVID helped one doctor learn to slow down
For a Philadelphia physician, rest seemed out of the question during the early part of the pandemic. But she learned an important lesson about the need to slow down.
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Listen 19:20A 2nd version of omicron is spreading. Here’s why scientists are on alert
It's a sibling of the first omicron variant that swept the world. Is it more contagious? Does it cause severe disease? Will it keep current omicron surges going? Researchers a
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Report: Former buyer asks judge to stop Jennersville and Brandywine hospital closures
Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC is asking a Chester County judge to put a pause on Tower Health’s closure of Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals.
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Philadelphia biomedical research firm granted $250K for workforce training
Officials said the funds will help address the critical need to boost a skilled labor force in Philadelphia as the life sciences industry grows.
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COVID-19 vaccine mandate kicks in for health care workers in Pa., N.J., Del.
The mandate is first taking effect first in jurisdictions that didn’t challenge the requirement in court.
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Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they’re off
A new study finds tiny leaks from loose fittings added up to more emissions than when stoves were in use. The impact amounts to the same effect as a half-million cars.
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