
Health Care
How to get the most out of your virtual medical appointment
What if you don't have COVID-19 symptoms, but you do have an earache or a child with a rash? These days, many more people are getting diagnosed via calls or video chats.
5 years ago
#ThankYouPhilly: Giant posters turn boarded-up storefronts into essential worker tributes
The campaign shouts out everyone from doctors to utility workers.
5 years ago
Frontline health care workers seek immunity from malpractice during COVID-19
The Pennsylvania Medical Society is asking Governor Tom Wolf to grant temporary immunity from malpractice claims to healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
5 years ago
Einstein Healthcare Network to furlough workers
The health system, which employs 8,000 workers, instructed leadership to choose which positions to temporarily cut.
5 years ago
Penn doctor uses his near-death experiences to research why COVID-19 patients crash
Facing the cytokine storm — David Fajgenbaum brings his first-hand experience with cytokine storms to bear on this new coronavirus.
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Listen 09:10Most Pa. hospitals expect to burn through mask supplies within a week
Over the last two days, health care workers have demanded that the federal government provide the emergency supplies they need on COVID-19 front lines.
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We look at how the coronavirus disproportionately affects people living in poverty and talk about gun violence in Philadelphia during the outbreak.
Air Date: April 7, 2020 10:00 am
Listen 49:14Pennsylvania nearing peak of COVID-19 pandemic, projections show
The Keystone State gets a positive prognosis, while New Jersey’s death toll worsens, in the latest projections.
5 years ago
COVID-19 brings ‘cataclysmic changes’ for people giving birth in Philadelphia area
With the pandemic, more are interested in home births, some ask for induced labor, and some are coming from New York to see about having babies here.
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Protesters: Free Hahnemann! Gov’t leaders: We have better options.
Councilmember Helen Gym thinks it’s still worth exploring eminent domain.
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Tips for keeping it together during coronavirus outbreak, and resources to find help
At best, people are stuck inside. At worst, they’re working in incredibly stressful conditions, or isolated from friends and family. This is not an easy time.
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Philadelphia could close a section of Spruce Street for tent hospital
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania may put a field hospital on a public street, the first commandeering of open land for medical use since 1918.
5 years ago
Penn, Jefferson expand at-home cancer treatments during COVID-19 pandemic
People are trying to follow social distancing guidelines, so health systems are trying out bringing cancer treatments to their patients’ homes.
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Should we all be wearing masks in public? Health experts revisit the question
Wearing a mask is "an additional layer of protection for those who have to go out," former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told NPR in an interview.
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Del. weighs reopening hospital, calls on retired health workers to boost COVID-19 response
As hospitals consider how to free up bed space, Delaware officials say their first priority is recruiting enough nurses and doctors to help.
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