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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)
Health
Broke in Philly

For adults on Medicaid, getting dental care is an uphill battle

Pennsylvania curtailed benefits in 2011, and adults now either pull diseased teeth or pay out of pocket because procedures like root canals aren’t covered.

7 years ago

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Teresa Pettis (right), an abortion opponent, protests outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis, on May 17. Unless a judge intervenes, health officials will force a Missouri facility to stop offering the procedure this week. (Jim Salter/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Missouri could soon become first state without a clinic that performs abortions

Missouri is within days of losing its last remaining health center that provides abortions. Unless a court intervenes, it will become the first state without such a clinic.

7 years ago

Members of National Nurses United union members wave 'Medicare for All' signs during a rally in front of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in Washington calling for 'Medicare for All' on Monday, April 29, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Politics & Policy

Progressive, moderate wings of Democratic Party at odds over ‘Medicare for All’

Currently, the main “Medicare for All” proposal in the House calling for guaranteed health insurance for every American has just over 100 co-sponsors.

7 years ago

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Reporter Jenny Gold and her husband, Alex Gourse, with their newborn son at Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago two days after his birth. (Courtesy of Bella Baby Photography)
NPR
Health

I went through my pregnancy with strangers. It was the best decision I could’ve made

Rather than the standard 15-minute individual visits in an exam room, women who are due around the same time and their partners meet as a group for two hours with a clinician,

7 years ago

A memorial of flowers, balloons, a cross and photo of victim Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, are displayed on the lawn, Friday, May 17, 2019 in Chicago, outside the home where Ochoa-Lopez was murdered last month. Assistant State's Attorney James Murphy says a pregnant Ochoa-Lopez, who was killed and whose baby was cut from her womb, was strangled while being shown a photo album of the late son and brother of her attackers. (Teresa Crawford/AP Photo)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community
The Philadelphia Experiment

Pro-life means all lives

The fight to protect life should be about much more than abortion. In fact, the fight to protect life should go on long after children are born.

7 years ago

Roger Severino, director of the Office for Civil Rights, announced Friday a new proposed rule rolling back anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients. Those protections had been written in 2016 but enjoined in court. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration proposes rule to reverse protections for transgender patients

The federal Department of Health and Human Services is proposing to roll back an Obama-era policy intended to protect transgender people from discrimination in health care.

7 years ago

Erin Goldner's organization Hope Street was one of several community groups honored for efforts to address the opioid epidemic (Courtesy of Addiction Policy Forum)
Health

Eight Delaware programs honored for innovative efforts to curtail opioid epidemic

National nonprofit awards groups fighting opioid epidemic with innovative programs and initiatives that can be established all over the country.

7 years ago

Delaware supporters of abortion rights rallied against restrictions passed in other states. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Dozens of Delawareans join day of action to support abortion rights

Abortion rights supporters in Delaware and across the country showed solidarity for women in states with abortion restrictions.

7 years ago

File - Protestors gathered outside the Planned Parenthood Clinic on Locust Street in Center City. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Pa., N.J. and Del. join suit over rule allowing clinicians to refuse abortions

Nearly two dozen states and municipalities sued the federal government Tuesday to stop a new rule that lets health care clinicians decline to provide abortions.

7 years ago

Philadelphia ranks #4 on the list of most challenging places to live with asthma in the U.S. Thirteen percent of the city's children suffer from the chronic condition. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Health
Broke in Philly

Why racial disparities in asthma are an urban planning issue

African-Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma as whites.

7 years ago

In this Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo, a marijuana plant is visible at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J. marijuana bills would expand medical program, decriminalize small amounts

The measures are moving ahead despite lawmakers’ failure to pass a bill legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use.

7 years ago

Ashley Garecht speaks as anti-abortion protesters rally near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, Friday, May 10, 2019. The demonstration was spurred by the actions of a Democratic state lawmaker who recorded himself berating an anti-abortion demonstrator at length outside the clinic. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

As states pass restrictive abortion laws, questions surface

As multiple states pass laws banning many abortions, questions have surfaced about what exactly that means for women who might seek an abortion. The short answer: nothing yet.

7 years ago

Ashley Garecht speaks as anti-abortion protesters rally near a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia, Friday, May 10, 2019. The demonstration was spurred by the actions of a Democratic state lawmaker who recorded himself berating an anti-abortion demonstrator at length outside the clinic. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

Anti-abortion bills and the future of Roe v. Wade

We discuss the stringent anti-abortion bills passing in statehouses around the country, how they could impact women's health and the challenge they pose to Roe v, Wade.

Air Date: May 16, 2019 10:00 am

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Pennsylvania House of Representatives at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa.
Politics & Policy
PA Post

Pa. House passes veto-bound abortion bill amid constitutionality questions

Governor Tom Wolf has said he will veto the measure if the Senate passes it to him.

7 years ago

Signs advertising free measles vaccines and providing information about measles are displayed at the Rockland County Health Department in Pomona, N.Y. The county in New York City's northern suburbs has had more than 200 measles cases since last fall. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

How public health outreach ended a 1990s measles outbreak and what’s different now

From 1989 to 1991, more than 55,000 people got measles. Federal funding and parents embracing vaccines halted the outbreak.

7 years ago

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