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Medicine

A woman ties a bandage around another woman's arm as she prepares to give blood
Health

Delaware Valley blood banks are asking people to roll up their sleeves amid national shortage in donations

Blood donations were down 25% nationally in July compared to the same time last year, according to the American Red Cross.

9 months ago

Listen 1:09
Dr. Ala Stanford stands in front of a health clinic with her arms crossed
Health

Philadelphia physician Dr. Ala Stanford publishes memoir on overcoming adversity and the health care system

The pediatric surgeon founded the Black Doctors Consortium and worked as a regional health director under the Biden administration.

9 months ago

Listen 1:51
Needles and bottles for sampling blood cultures
Health

How Philly area hospitals are dealing with a national shortage of blood culture bottles

Hospitals routinely use these bottles to check for infections in patients’ blood — now they are cutting back on tests.

9 months ago

Listen 1:51
Hands of surgeons in operation room. (Bigstock/beerkoff)
Studio 2
Health

Should organ donors be compensated? Plus, the psychology of smell

Would you give your kidney to a stranger? What if you could get a $50,000 tax credit for it? That's just one proposal for upping organ donation in the US.

Air Date: July 30, 2024 12:00 pm

Listen 52:40
Horseshoe crabs are pictured on a beach
Science

Advocates cheer new standards that could save horseshoe crabs from bloodletting

Up to 1 million horseshoe crabs in the U.S. are harvested for biomedical purposes. A synthetic alternative could mean less harvesting of the “living fossils.”

10 months ago

Listen 1:15
File- Chestnut Hill Hospital, part of the Temple University Health System (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Temple Health and Keystone First reach new 2-year deal, avoiding disruption for thousands of patients

The current contract between Temple Health and Keystone First health insurance was set to expire after July 31.

10 months ago

Listen 0:54
A COVID-19 antigen home test indicating a positive result
Health

COVID cases are rising in Philadelphia. Here’s what to know

The rise comes as the CDC is preparing to end its program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to people without insurance.

10 months ago

A carpenter who is undocumented and uninsured recovers in a hospital bed after being struck by a motorcycle on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, Pa. (Courtesy of Claudia Martínez).
The Pulse
Health

Desperate for care, patients face the threat of ‘medical deportation'

Hospitals are legally required to care for undocumented patients in emergencies. But when a patient is too sick to be discharged, some turn to a controversial practice.

10 months ago

Listen 11:30
Medication pills on top of US currency. (Bigstock/jpimages)
The Pulse
Health

Are financial incentives holding back cures?

A promising new cure sparked a wave of renewed interest in gene therapies about a decade ago — but it also set off alarm bells in the financial world.

10 months ago

Listen 11:55
A medical researcher looks at tubes behind plexiglass
Science

The Wistar Institute will build a new biomedical center in West Philly dedicated to HIV cure research

There is no general cure for HIV, a chronic disease that affects more than 39 million people globally, including more than 18,000 in Philadelphia.

10 months ago

Pharmacist filling a prescription
Politics & Policy

New Pennsylvania law aims to help local pharmacies

Since January, more than 140 pharmacies across the state have shut down.

10 months ago

FILE - The injectable drug Ozempic is shown Saturday, July 1, 2023, in Houston. Even as millions of older adults clamor for drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, monthly use of the medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists soared nearly 600% between 2020 and 2023 in people under 25 – and as young as 12. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Science

A Philly lab reveals how obesity drugs like Ozempic cause nausea

The study focused on semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic. It is known to reduce feelings of hunger while increasing feelings of nausea.

10 months ago

Listen 1:11
medicine on a shelf
Health

Extreme heat and some medicines can be a risky combo. Here’s what to know

Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin that require refrigeration. Inhalers can explode. Epinephrine injectors such as EpiPens can malfunction. \

10 months ago

Model wearing a shirt saying
Health

Ozempic’s popularity leads to shortages for people with Type 2 diabetes

These medications have been so wildly successful that the drugmakers can’t keep up with demand.

10 months ago

Media-resident Jacqueline Vakil and her 4-year-old son, James.
Health

Discontinued asthma medication sends Philly-area patients scrambling, in some cases to the emergency room

Some Philadelphia-area doctors say admissions to intensive care and asthma deaths among children have gone up this year, partly because of supply issues.

10 months ago

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