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A new program at Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia will help inmates fill out a Medicaid application before they leave. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Penn student starts effort to help women enroll in Medicaid before leaving Philly prison

Kriya Patel, a college senior from Wisconsin, has figured out how to employ herself next year and help women behind bars. To win t ...

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Elizabeth Mosher volunteered to take a test to see if she had a higher-than-average risk for dementia. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

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If you are at high risk of developing Alzheimer’s, would you want to know?

Drug trial gives people a “peek” at their brain functioning. The Drexel Neurosciences Institute in Philadelphia and ab ...

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Despite whooping cough rise in Abington, Montco had average number of cases

A small cluster of whooping cough cases in Montgomery County is a reminder that the pertussis vaccine works, but not as well as health of ...

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Pa. House measure restricting abortion might get vote this week

A fast-moving plan to restrict abortions in Pennsylvania has cleared a first hurdle in the State House. The ...

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Judith Bonaducce's newly published memior

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The fear and silence that came with mom’s broken bones and black eyes

Stomach tight. You’d get blocked vision. You feel like you can’t breath. Your heart’s beating out of your chest. Abject ...

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Pa. explores tapping Medicaid for housing as step toward controlling health costs

Medicaid normally pays for doctor or hospital visits, but what about a place to stay? Health advocates are gathering in Philadelph ...

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Angela Bobo and family members take turns caring for her mother

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How do caregivers learn skills to keep a loved one safe at home?

Dementia has been slowly stealing Ruth Perez’s memory and thinking ability for 20 years. “She would put food together ...

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Taking a public health approach to restrain Wilmington’s gun violence

After studying gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware, federal health researchers have offered the state recommendations for curbing the pr ...

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Neurologist Carol Lippa runs the cognitive and memory disorders program at the Drexel Neurosciences Institute. Drexel is studying a drug that clears away plaque that kills memory and thinking brain cells. (Taunya English/WHYY)

Drexel studies experimental drug aiming at Alzheimer’s before symptoms show

Researchers at Drexel University are studying an experimental medicine that they hope can stop Alzheimer’s disease before it starts ...

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Fighting Chance hopes to provide communities with kits that will assist in helping victims staunch bleeding in the event of traumas. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)

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In Philadelphia, bystander first aid turns everyday citizens into first responders

In Philadelphia, it’s gun violence that makes first aid skills so necessary for ordinary residents. After the Paris bombings ...

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Demonstrators gather while the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in a Texas abortion case which could have a ripple effect in Pennsylvania. (Photo via Women's Law Project)

Supreme Court decision in Texas abortion case could have ripple effects in Pa.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing from attorneys in a Texas case that opponents say could shutter abortion clinics in that state. So ...

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The Pew Charitable Trusts is urging states to tighten regulation of pharmacies that compound their own medication. Compounding pharmacist Angela Svoboda holds a nicotine lollipop used by those trying to quit smoking

Pew report urges greater state oversight of compounding pharmacies

After a 2012 incident that sickened hundreds of people in Massachusetts, the Pew Charitable Trusts is pushing for tighter state regulatio ...

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