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Pennsylvania court revokes blanket ban on former convicts working as health aides
An appeals court has overturned Pennsylvania’s nearly 20-year policy of prohibiting those with certain criminal convictions from ca ...
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Delaware’s mental health system improves, but struggles with acute care increases
Four years ago, it wasn’t uncommon for someone with a mental illness in Delaware to have been institutionalized for decades. ...
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Student-led campaigns reduce bullying, conflict in NJ middle schools
Schoolyard taunting and cruel jokes in the classroom — and online — are standard fare for many kids. Despite efforts to stem bullying ...
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Unseasonably warm weather brings bounty to local farmers
With some days this month topping 70 degrees, it’s not feeling particularly seasonable. But the mild weather is helping local farme ...
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Mustaches outnumber women in U.S. medical leadership
Even though medical schools now graduate men and women in roughly equal numbers, it’s still relatively uncommon for females to asce ...
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Fearing lost grant and jobs, Bucks County works to preserve biotech center
When Delaware Valley University and the Hepatitis B Foundation came together a decade ago to form the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, ...
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Pennsylvania hospitals lower mortality, readmission rates
Over five years, hospitals across Pennsylvania have reduced the number of deaths and cut down on costly readmissions, according to a ...
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Deadline for January 1 health coverage gets pushed back
With just a few hours left until this year’s first Obamacare deadline, procrastinators got a reprieve. On Tuesday night, the govern ...
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With comics, students expose a dark side of medical education
An unusual humanities course at Penn State Medical School is revealing a problem common to many schools: mistreatment by senior physician ...
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New Jersey office workers fired for refusing flu shots
Lutheran Social Ministries of New Jersey has fired three of its Burlington office workers after they refused the seasonal influenza vacci ...
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With personalized approach, new drugs on the horizon for leukemia patients
Drugs used to shrink tumors in ovarian and skin cancer might be enlisted soon to treat chronic lymphocytic leukemia or CLL. Throug ...
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Jersey scientists probe mystery of army ant ‘living’ bridges
In the rainforests of South and Central America, roving colonies of predatory army ants form trails hundreds of meters long, with soldier ...
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