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Health Care

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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.

7 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.

7 years ago

(<a href=“http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-211322050/stock-photo-wooden-gavel-with-a-brass-band-resting-on-a-plinth-used-by-a-judge-or-auctioneer-and-conceptual-of.html?src=rj3D1iuyrYVhMrLjcKAD5g-1-53”>Photo</a> via ShutterStock)
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.

7 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

Listen 49:02
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.

7 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.

7 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

Listen 12:04
Abortion protesters attempt to hand out literature as they stand in the driveway of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Indianapolis on Aug. 16.
NPR
Community

Planned Parenthood withdraws from Title X program over Trump rule

Planned Parenthood is leaving the federal Title X family planning program rather than comply with new Trump administration rules regarding abortion counseling.

7 years ago

Photo of woman holding terminally ill mother hand
Politics & Policy

Doctor who sued N.J. to stop ‘aid-in-dying’ law believes it violates his oath

An attorney for the doctor who sued to stop New Jersey’s new aid-in-dying law said his client believes the law violates his oath as a practicing physician.

7 years ago

FILE- In this July 10, 2018, file photo bottles of medicine ride on a belt at a mail-in pharmacy warehouse in Florence, N.J. Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Health

Brand-name drug prices rising at slower pace, lower amounts

Drug companies are still raising prices for brand-name prescription medicines, just not as often or by as much as they used to, according to an Associated Press analysis.

7 years ago

 (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-59821117/stock-photo-compassionate-home-health-nurse-holds-an-elderly-patient-s-hand.html?src=csl_recent_image-1'>Palliative care</a> image courtesy of Shutterstock.com)
Courts & Law

New Jersey’s medically assisted suicide law put on hold

Gov. Murphy, who signed the bill, said that AG Grewal would release guidance for residents in light of the order and vowed to oppose the lawsuit in court.

7 years ago

Unless a federal court intervenes, Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people. (Jeff Roberson/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Planned Parenthood to withdraw from Title X, unless court intervenes

Planned Parenthood says it will formally withdraw from the nation's family planning program for low-income people within days, unless a federal court intervenes.

7 years ago

A mobile mammography van helps boost Philly's rate (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Health
Billy Penn

Good news: On mammograms, Philadelphia beats the national average

There’s still a striking disparity between neighborhoods across the city.

7 years ago

Concept image of three genders, male and female, undetermined sex
Health

Looking at gender’s many sides, and keeping kids’ safety and inclusion in mind

Navigating the world as a young transgender person can be challenging. That’s true even in places some might think it’s safe, like the health-care system.

7 years ago

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In this Jan. 31, 2019, file photo, hundreds of people overflow onto the sidewalk in a line snaking around the block outside a U.S. immigration office with numerous courtrooms in San Francisco.  (Eric Risberg/AP Photo, File)
Health

Pa., N.J. health experts warn new Trump immigration rule will increase uninsured

The change widens the definition of “public charge” to mean people here legally who get public benefits like Medicaid, food stamps, and housing vouchers.

7 years ago

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