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The Holiday Break

The Holiday Break is WHYY's antidote to the stress of the season. Wrap up each weekday with 3 hours of classical and holiday music from 9 P.M. to midnight throughout the holiday season (through January 3).

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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

Navigating Loss and Grief

A conversation on grief and death with a mother coping with the loss of her young daughter and a palliative care physician guiding patients and their families at the end life.

Air Date: December 8, 2023 12:00 pm

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Affordable Care Act health insurance marketplace navigator Leticia Chaw, right, helps gather information for Jennifer Sanchez
Health

Delaware Valley sees first set of deadlines to pick 2024 health insurance during ACA open enrollment

ACA open enrollment period began Nov. 1. The marketplaces are open to people who do not get insurance coverage through their jobs or other programs.

2 days ago

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The exterior of Temple University Hospital
Health

Temple Health trauma surgeon receives federal grant to study media coverage of gun violence

Dr. Jessica Beard’s prior research found that reporting — particularly TV news — that focuses on single events often causes further harm to shooting victims.

3 days ago

Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, March 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Studio 2

Air Traffic Controllers on Edge, Future of Pharmacies, Unhoused Youth

Throngs of holiday travelers at airports across the country put heavy stress on an already strained aviation system. We hear about an investigation into airport safety.

Air Date: December 5, 2023 12:00 pm

Listen 50:01
A sign of Rite Aid on its store in Pittsburgh
Health

For Rite Aid customers in the Philly region, finding a new pharmacy might prove challenging

Local pharmacists are beginning to feel the weight of Rite Aid’s closures, and some might not be able to take on more patients.

4 days ago

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Signs in the shape of grave headstones, with information on people who died from using OxyContin, line a security fence outside the Supreme Court Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Washington.The Supreme Court is wrestling with a nationwide settlement with OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma that would shield members of the Sackler family who own the company from civil lawsuits over the toll of opioids. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
Courts & Law

The Supreme Court wrestles with OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal, with billions of dollars at stake

The justices on Monday seemed by turns reluctant to break up an exhaustively negotiated agreement, but also leery of somehow rewarding the Sacklers.

4 days ago

A dog lies on an examining table at the vet
NPR
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Veterinarians say fears about ‘mystery’ dog illness may be overblown. Here’s why

Reports of an "outbreak" of some as yet unidentified canine respiratory illness are scaring dog owners. But veterinarians and researchers aren't panicking.

1 week ago

The Huber family (from left), Cash, Jena Stone, and Phil, and big sister Ava (not pictured) at home in Wilmington. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Hope, devastation, and finally, a treatment: One family’s road to gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

A family in Wilmington, Delaware, faced a looming deadline to get their son a new gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

1 week ago

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-Stephan Kadauke (left) and Steve Grupp of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the clean room facility where immune therapy treatments are produced. (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

CHOP’s on-site production could lower high cost of gene therapies

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia now houses a machine that is helping to make CAR T-cell therapy much less expensive.

2 weeks ago

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A doula places their hands on a pregnant person's stomach.
Health

Philadelphia doula program could promote recovery and prevent drug overdose deaths, study finds

Philly’s Community Doula Support Program launched in early 2020 in response to rising drug overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum people.

2 weeks ago

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Providers hand out FIT take home screening kits for colon cancer.
Health

Temple doctors expand access to stool-based colon cancer screening to reduce racial disparities in Philly

Temple Health physicians are expanding a program to increase access to stool-based screening kits, an alternative to colonoscopies.

2 weeks ago

Listen 1:09
COVID tests
Health

More free COVID-19 tests from the government are available for home delivery through the mail

Anyone who did not order a batch of four COVID-19 tests in September can secure up to eight of them this time around starting Monday at COVIDtests.gov.

3 weeks ago

An illustration shows a person looking upwards, painted in blue, orange, and yellow.
NPR
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Autoimmune disease patients hit hurdles in diagnosis, costs, and care

Despite the prevalence of autoimmune conditions, like the thyroid disease Hashimoto's, finding help can prove frustrating and expensive.

3 weeks ago

File photo: A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is displayed outside their offices in Silver Spring, Md., Dec. 10, 2020.
Health

Eyedrops previously cited in FDA warning recalled by manufacturer

The drops were sold by CVS Health, Target, Rite Aid and other retailers.

3 weeks ago

Open enrollment starts Nov. 1 for Affordable Care Act marketplaces. (Carmel Wroth/NPR)
NPR
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Open enrollment starts this week for ACA plans. Here’s what’s new this year

ACA plans are now well entrenched — an estimated 16.3 million people signed up during open enrollment last year. This year may see even larger numbers.

1 month ago

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