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A new study has found that 83 percent of doctors, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and other high-level caregivers end up worki ...
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ListenThree years in, a look at Philadelphia’s drug felony diversion program
A decade ago, the idea of offering drug dealers help finding legitimate jobs and a reprieve from prison was a radical one. But a district ...
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ListenAn hourglass-shaped mountain? Princeton scientists find more room for threatened species
With global warming, scientists often speak of the ‘escalator’ effect: species moving up mountains to stay within tolerable t ...
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ListenPhiladelphia’s smoking rate drops, but still stays higher than other major cities
Throughout the 2000s, the number of Philadelphia smokers remained stubbornly high, regularly topping a quarter of the adult population. A ...
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The experiment failed, but please publish anyway
Not associated. No effect. Evidence against. These are not words that typically make it into the published scientific literature. ...
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ListenToday’s second amendment keeps time running smoothly
You probably won’t notice, but you have a little bit more time on your hands today. Just before the clock strikes midnight, an extr ...
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ListenFailed SpaceX flight claims student experiments from Del., NJ
For the second time in eight months, a payload of student science experiments destined for the International Space Station has gone up in ...
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ListenNJ bill changing EMS provider for Camden passes legislature
Both the New Jersey Assembly and Senate passed a bill on Th ...
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In first full year, health care law makes headway in cutting the uninsured rate
The Affordable Care Act has survived its challenge in the Supreme Court. In another win, ...
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Was it a twister? The forensics of tornadoes
Tuesday night’s thunderstorms uprooted trees, tore down power lines and flipped a car onto its roof at a South Jersey mall. Many wo ...
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ListenDespite gains, southeastern Pa. lags in reducing hospital readmissions
Too often, leaving a hospital is not the success story doctors, nurses and patients think it might be. Patients frequently return just we ...
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