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Health Care

Photographs of marijuana plants are on the wall during an open house and media availability for the opening of CY+ Medical marijuana Dispensary, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 in Butler, Pa.(AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Radio Times
Health

Medical marijuana in Pa.

Guests: Steve Twedt, Marcel Bonn-Miller, Shalawn James Medical marijuana was legalized in Pennsylvania more than ...

Air Date: August 29, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
Radio Times
Health

Mental health and black communities

Guests: Delane Casiano, Karriem Salaam, Howard Stevenson African Americans are more likely to report mental healt ...

Air Date: August 27, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:59
This file photo shows the short form for the federal Affordable Care Act application. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
Money

Final Delaware ACA rate increase approved

Delaware residents with health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace will be hit with 3 percent rate increases next year.

8 years ago

Gov. Tom Wolf at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa., on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (Chris Knight/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Court upholds Pa. Gov. Wolf’s order organizing home health care workers

Wolf called the ruling a step toward his goal of improving home-based health care.

8 years ago

Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.
NPR
Health

Why are black and Latino kids more likely to die of certain cancers?

When it comes to cancer survival, the United States is sharply divided by race.

8 years ago

Screening for lung cancer can catch tumors but it can also produce false positives. Patients need to decide whether it's right for them, but doctors often don't know how to advise them. (FS Productions/Getty Images/Blend Images)
NPR
Health

Should you get that scan? Your doctor might not be great at helping you decide

"It's about a deeper issue: ... Is healthcare structured to give patients the information they need to make informed decisions?"

8 years ago

Patient Aaron Reid receives (CAR) T-cell therapy at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. The process took five minutes to complete. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Science

Scientists race to improve ‘living drugs’ to fight cancer

The engineered cells are made by extracting T cells — a key part of the immune system -- from each patient's blood and then genetically modifying them in the lab.

8 years ago

Marlon Munoz still becomes emotional when he remembers having to tell his wife, Aibi Perez, that she had breast cancer, because no other interpreter was available to share the news. (Ryan Collerd for Undark)
NPR
Health

With scarce access to interpreters, immigrants struggle to understand doctors’ orders

The 1964 Civil Rights Act require hospitals and other facilities that offer medical services and receive federal funds to provide "meaningful access" to patients.

8 years ago

Cashiers, cooks, delivery people, fast-food workers and their supporters rallied outside New York City Hall in 2017. Their influential union, the Service Employees International Union, also includes about half a million home health aides. (Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Medicaid officials target home health aides’ union dues

Medicaid home care aides are emerging as the latest target in the ongoing power struggle between some conservative lawmakers and organized labor.

8 years ago

The HealthCare.gov website main page. The Trump administration is clearing the way for insurers to sell short-term health plans as a bargain alternative to pricey “Obamacare” for consumers struggling with high premiums. But the policies don’t have to cover pre-existing conditions and benefits are limited. It’s not certain if that’s going to translate into broad consumer appeal among people who need an individual policy. (HHS via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

With Obamacare seriously wounded, politicians seek a healthy way forward

Now that President Donald Trump’s administration has halted more than $10 billion in payments intended to help insurance companies unde ...

8 years ago

Listen 5:29
A cluster of rotaviruses. The image is from a transmission electron micrograph and has been colored. (Dr. Gopal Murti/Science Source)
NPR
Health

Scientists discover the secret weapon of stomach viruses

Researchers have discovered why some stomach bugs hit us so hard — and spread so fast.

8 years ago

(Steve Teare for Broke In Philly/WHYY)
Money

The high cost of being broke: Dental care

Delayed dental care can lead to infection, costly surgery.

8 years ago

Listen 2:36
About a decade ago, the FDA started requiring drugmakers to add black box warnings to labels and prescribing information for Soroquel and other antipsychotic drugs. The agency made the change after the medications were linked to an increased risk of death among elderly dementia patients.
(Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

‘Dear Doctor’ letters use peer pressure, government warning to stop overprescribing

Too frequently Seroquel is given to people who have Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia. The problem with that? Seroquel can be deadly for dementia patients.

8 years ago

Lisa Iezzoni is professor of medicine at Harvard. She has multiple sclerosis and researches disparities in health care for people with disabilities.
(Elana Gordon/WHYY)
NPR
Health

Doctors with disabilities push for culture change in medicine

The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, But culture change has been slow to take hold in the medical profession.

8 years ago

U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Courts & Law

Will the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade? And if it does, what happens to abortion rights?

Pro-choice advocates began losing sleep the minute Donald Trump was elected.

8 years ago

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