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Behavioral Health

Peck's Food owner Theodore Peck touches hands with a customer through window glass while closing his storefront due to the coronavirus outbreak, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Radio Times

Connection and kindness during the pandemic

We discuss the importance of staying socially connected even when apart and the acts of kindness that are inspiring people during the pandemic.

Air Date: March 20, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
Many of us are burrowing in for a few weeks of social distancing as the virus amps up anxiety levels everywhere. Shopping helps, an expert says. (ShutterStock)
Health

In anxious times, stocking up on stuff is just a natural human response

Many of us are burrowing in for a few weeks of social distancing as the virus amps up anxiety levels everywhere. Shopping helps, an expert says.

6 years ago

Many people practice remembering their dreams. What's the use in that? (Image courtesy of val.pearl/Flickr)
The Pulse
Science

Vivid dreams and their role in waking life

Many people practice remembering their dreams to help with clarity, creativity, or problem solving.

6 years ago

Listen 9:10
People in support of and opposed to Philadelphia’s Safehouse injection site protested in City Council on March 5, 2020. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

City Council passes resolution condemning secrecy of supervised injection plans

City Council passed the measure, 15-2, as groups both in support of and against Safehouse showed up in force bearing signs representing their positions.

6 years ago

The Pulse
Science

The Anatomy of Sadness

Sadness seemingly comes out of nowhere sometimes: a song, a photo, a movie scene, a memory, and there it is. Your heart seems heavy. Tear ...

Air Date: February 28, 2020

Listen 49:33
Constitution Health Plaza (Google Maps)
PlanPhilly
Health

Safehouse hits pause on plan to open supervised injection site in South Philly

Earlier, City Councilmember David Oh introduced, to wide support among his outraged colleagues, a bill that will effectively ban such sites in Philadelphia.

6 years ago

What it looks like inside one of Vancouver's Insitesupervised injection facilities. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

Philly’s Safehouse to open nation’s first supervised injection site after judge clearance

U.S. Attorney William McSwain’s suit to stop the facility “overlooks the complexity” of the situation, the judge said.

6 years ago

An arrangement of fentanyl test strips
Health

Parents and Camden County officials hope free fentanyl test strips will reduce overdose deaths

Health advocates and Camden County leaders are giving out free fentanyl test strips in an effort to reduce overdoses.

6 years ago

The latest lawsuits allege that new video evidence shows the driver restraining more children with tape, or threatening to do so, on at least 9 occasions. (Courtesy of Penn Center for Mental Health)
PlanPhilly
Health

‘How could they do that to my kid?’: Parents sue state-funded van service after preschoolers tied up with duct tape

Cases pending in Philadelphia courts allege children were tied up with duct tape by a driver paid for by the state to take them to preschool.

6 years ago

Listen 2:30
A growing field of science shows that friendship is vital to our health. (Muaz Bin Saat/EyeEm/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Survival of the friendliest: How our close friendships help us thrive

Lydia Denworth wants you to make more time for friends, says the author of the new book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond

6 years ago

Part voyeurism, part advice column, part moral philosophy — AITA is a place for debating who's right and who's wrong in everyday conflicts. (bigtunaonline / Big Stock Photo)
The Pulse
Science

What’s fueling the rise of AITA — an online community dedicated to calling out jerks?

How a subreddit dedicated to strangers’ problems taps into our human desire for fairness

6 years ago

Listen 11:37
(photo credit: Big Stock)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

Short shaming and heightism

President Trump has a habit of teasing his opponents and critics for being short, most recently Mike Bloomberg. But for short people, this is probably not a shock.

Air Date: February 19, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:58
Reporter Liz Tung quit smoking with e-cigarettes. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

How vaping restrictions could send ex-smokers back to cigarettes

New policies meant to curb the youth vaping epidemic could hurt adults who vape to quit

6 years ago

Listen 09:44
Former PA governor Ed Rendell (right) commits to being a volunteer escort alongside Safehouse leaders Jose Benitez and Ronda Goldfein (MICHAELA WINBERG / BILLY PENN)
Community
Billy Penn

Share a jail cell with the gov? Rendell, Safehouse leaders organize ‘escorts’ for pending injection site

They’re following the volunteer model made famous by Planned Parenthood.

6 years ago

(Max Marin/Billy Penn)
Health
Billy Penn

When Philly paramedics arrive, many overdose victims have vanished

As Narcan’s widespread availability saves lives, it complicates treatment efforts.

6 years ago

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