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Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 09/09/19

This week: an update on the closure of Hahnemann Hospital, Camden County School District superintendent Katrina McCombs, and monarch migration.

Air Date: September 9, 2019 10:00 am

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UK Biobank has granted 10,000 qualified scientists access to its large database of genetic sequences and other medical data, but other organizations with databases have been far more restrictive in giving access. (KTSDESIGN/Getty Images/Science Photo Library)
NPR
Health

How should scientists’ access to health databanks be managed?

Medical and genetic data from more than a million Americans are now in scientific databases. Some programs hoard the data, while others share widely with scientists.

6 years ago

Dr. Peter Grinspoon was a practicing physician when he became addicted to opioids. When he got caught, Grinspoon wasn't allowed access to what's now the standard treatment for addiction — buprenorphine or methadone (in addition to counseling) — precisely because he was a doctor. (Tony Luong for NPR)
NPR
Health

For health workers struggling with addiction, why are treatment options limited?

Doctors and nurses are often barred from turning to FDA-approved medications that research shows to be the most effective way to quit.

6 years ago

A child is immunized against measles, mumps and rubella in Lyon, France. (BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty)
NPR
Health

Why the measles surge could open the door to a host of other diseases

There's mounting evidence that the measles virus can erase our immunity to everything from influenza viruses to diarrheal disease.

6 years ago

Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Bankruptcy judge approves $55 million sale of Hahnemann residency program

The hospital plans to close its doors Friday. Its owner has been wrangling with the federal government for weeks over the residency program was an asset.

6 years ago

Dr. Grier Arthur, a pediatric surgeon at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, expresses the conditions the hospital staff would like to see met by a new owner. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

St. Christopher’s doctors call for local nonprofit to buy hospital

Physicians at the children’s hospital and community members want a local nonprofit to buy the facility, owned by Hahnemann’s parent, and maintain services.

6 years ago

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Radio Times
Health

Bioethics and changing health care

The era of modern medicine has seen a wave of new technology and lifesaving treatments. But should we be asking tougher questions about these medical advances?

Air Date: September 5, 2019 10:00 am

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Hahnemann University Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Bankruptcy judge to decide the future of Hahnemann Hospital’s residency slots

Hahnemann University Hospital is back in federal bankruptcy court Weds. where a judge will rule on whether the sale of its residency programs can go ahead.

6 years ago

Bay Health Hospital, Kent Campus (Provided)
Health

Delaware health facilities receive grant to incentivize rural primary care growth

Delaware has a primary care physician shortage. Two medical facilities hope to change that by establishing residency programs.

6 years ago

Abortion protesters attempt to hand out literature as they stand in the driveway of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Indianapolis on Aug. 16.
Money

After federal rule change, N.J. lawmakers want to hike funding for Planned Parenthood

New Jersey lawmakers want to provide state money to Planned Parenthood and other health care providers who have abandoned some of their federal funding.

6 years ago

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Courts & Law

N.J. law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives back in effect

An N.J. court has overturned a ruling that put a controversial new law allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives with medical help on hold.

6 years ago

Elise Schiller, author of Even if your Heart Would Listen (Photo courtesy of author)
Radio Times
Health

Reflections on love and loss in the opioid crisis

Elise Schiller lost her daughter to a heroin overdose while she was in treatment. Now she's speaking out about opioid use disorder and the holes in the US treatment system.

Air Date: August 27, 2019

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Terrie Dietrich, left, and her daughter Erin Cross, talk in Dietrich’s home in Henderson, Nev., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2019. (Michelle L. Price/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

For Democrats, a shift toward the middle on health care

While "Medicare for All" remains hugely popular, majorities say they'd prefer building on "Obamacare" to expand coverage instead of a new government program.

6 years ago

(Marc Levy/AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

Christiana Care will review health care services in Delaware prisons

Delaware’s largest hospital system will conduct an independent review of medical and behavioral health care services in the state’s prisons.

6 years ago

At the kitchen table Summer Mills goes over documents accumulated in the past months while dealing with dental issues, on April 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Health

For low-income Pennsylvanians, dental care can be a nightmare

More than 1 million adults on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have only bare bones coverage. Why is getting dental care so hard for these patients?

Air Date: August 20, 2019

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