
Health Care
Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.
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Listen 4:28In midst of ‘merger boom,’ Jefferson moves toward acquiring Einstein hospital network
Acquisition of Einstein would give Jefferson a network of 18 Philadelphia-area hospitals worth $6 billion.
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Guests: Anupam Jena, Jonathan Reisman The staggering rise of opioid-related deaths in America has reached critica ...
Air Date: March 27, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:48N.J. may add 12 medical marijuana dispensaries
Measure under consideration by state lawmakers also calls for including chronic pain as qualifying condition.
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Opera Philadelphia will premiere work about Alzheimer’s in the fall
Opera Philadelphia announces its 2018-2019 season, including the world premiere of an opera about Alzheimer's disease.
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Puerto Rican evacuees’ medical needs include mental health services
“Folks are coming with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, with anxiety."
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Scholarship fund aims to make Philly midwife ranks more diverse
The vast majority — more than 90 percent — of American College of Nurse-Midwives members are white. Some recent grads of Penn’s nurse-midwifery program want to change that.
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Baltimore cat, 17, has $19,000 kidney transplant at Penn
After his mandated one-month confinement to a dog crate had ended, he returned happily to his old routines, which include walks at the end of a purple leash.
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Pa. grapples with potential Medicaid work requirements
As more states begin creating work requirements for able-bodied Medicaid recipients, calls to do the same in Pennsylvania are building.
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Delaware measure calls for mandating insurers cover infertility treatment
The Delaware Fertility Care and Preservation Bill would help couples struggling to conceive by requiring private insurance companies cover infertility.
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Flu ‘very much active’ in Delaware, records reach 14-year high
Over the past week, 1,521 more Delawareans were diagnosed with the flu, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 5,758. There also were five flu-related deaths.
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Leading liberal policy group unveils ‘coverage for all’ plan
Called "Medicare Extra for All," the proposal from CAP, gives politically energized Democrats more options to fulfill a long-sought goal.
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Mobile cancer screening funding in jeopardy
Hundreds of Delaware women who receive services on the state-funded Mobile Health Screening Van may have to seek other providers if the state decides to cut its funding.
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Florida eye doctor gets 17 years for Medicare fraud
A prominent Florida eye doctor once accused of bribing Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey received a 17-year sentence Thursday for stealing $73 million from Medicare.
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Flu cases in Delaware prisons mirror statewide trends
As of Wednesday, 87 Delaware inmates have been diagnosed with the flu within the past two to three weeks.
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