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How Chicago is improving HPV vaccination rates

Chicago’s three-dose coverage level for teen girls is 53 percent, that’s up from about 37 percent the year before. Chi ...

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Drexel paleontologist Ted Daeschler speaks about his discovery of Tiktaalik, a fossil that shows an evolutionary link between fish and land-based animals. (Roger Bull/Canadian Museum of Nature)

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Success as a sweet antidote for failure

Breakthrough paleontology requires the right rocks, luck and lots of persistence. If there is such as thing as a “rock ...

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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating Medicare and Medicaid at the library of former President Harry Truman, who was in attendance, on July 30, 1965. (Photo courtesy of Truman Library)

As health program turns 50, study finds long-term benefits of childhood Medicaid

The twin pillars of government health care coverage were created 50 years ago with a few strokes of the pen as President Lyndon Johnson s ...

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As Pa. plans closer scrutiny of prescribing painkillers, help sought for addicted patients

Pennsylvania is planning a prescription drug-monitoring program that allows doctors to check a patient’s history with other health ...

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Is obesity a disease?

Two years ago, doctors declared obesity a disease, but critics say, “Don’t pathologize my size!” Two years after the ...

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Shannon McMahon learns how to hold her breath in order to minimize damage to her heart during radiation therapy. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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Coordinated breathing may protect the heart during cancer treatment

The risk for heart trouble after radiation therapy is small, but thousands of breast-cancer patients are exposed. Radiation therap ...

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Delaware Rep. Michael Barbieri announces his resignation to become the new director of the Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health in the Department of Health and Social Services. (Image courtesy of the Delaware House Democratic Caucus)

Delaware lawmaker stepping dow to lead Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health

Delaware state Rep. Michael Barbieri is used having state officials report to him. On Aug. 4, the tables turn. After eight years a ...

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Mandatory health coaching is sometimes the ‘price’ for lower-cost health coverage

As workplace wellness programs become more popular, some employees are having second thoughts about the bargain they’ve made. ...

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Affordable Care Act achieves birth-control savings

A provision of the Affordable Care Act that was designed to lower the cost of birth control seems to be working. The health law re ...

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Members of the Camden Coalition team make a home visit in Camden in 2014. (Couresy of Lynsey Addario/Camden Coalition)

Health care collaboratives aim to help Medicaid enrollees in three NJ cities

Three health care collaboratives in New Jersey now have state approval to share patient information in an effort to improve the health of ...

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Officials (from left) Jim Harveson, director of Economic Development, Camden Redevelopment Agency, Judith A. Enck, EPA regional administrator, Salvation Army Maj. Paul Cain, and N.J. Congressman Donald Norcross announce funding Monday for brownfield cleanups in Camden. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

With help from U.S., Camden to clean up three brownfield sites in city

Camden has new money to clean up three more of the nearly 150 “lightly contaminated” brownfield sites scattered across the ci ...

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Documenting root causes of Philadelphia’s high maternal mortality rate

Philadelphia first began tracking the deaths of new mothers and pregnant women in the 1930s when illegal abortion, blood infections and e ...

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