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Radio Times
Health

Herd immunity, mask confusion and a nudge for the vaccine hesitant

This hour, worry that we won't reach herd immunity as vaccine demand slows, the confusion about new CDC guidelines for the vaccinated, and using a nudge for vaccine hesitant.

Air Date: May 5, 2021 10:00 am

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Rebeca Cruz-Esteves at Jefferson Abington, where she’s been hospitalized in the neurology unit for the past week. (Courtesy of Rebeca Cruz-Esteves)
Health

The rarest of COVID vaccine reactions: One woman’s story of Guillain-Barre

You’re more likely to win the lottery than develop this severe COVID vaccine reaction. But for a Manayunk woman, the lowest of odds changed her life.

5 years ago

Listen 1:15
As awareness of opioid addiction has grown, new treatments have emerged, including new forms of medication-assisted treatment. (NJTV News)
Health

New study looks at medication assisted drug treatment after Medicaid expansion

Even as more people get treatment overall, people with criminal justice involvement still remain less likely to get medication for opioid use disorder.

5 years ago

In this March 3, 2021, file photo, U.S. Army medic Kristen Rogers, of Waxhaw, N.C., holds a vial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Health

US health panel urges restarting J&J COVID-19 vaccinations

A U.S. health panel says it’s time to resume use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, despite a very rare risk of blood clots.

5 years ago

A line forms outside the Center for Architecture and Design on Arch Street
Health

Half of U.S. adults have received at least one COVID-19 shot

The U.S. cleared the 50% mark just a day after the reported global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering 3 million.

5 years ago

A closeup of a marijuana plant
Courts & Law

N.J.’s new legal weed market faces municipal bans, slow adoption by medical industry

The N.J. Cannabis Regulatory Commission held its first meeting and began writing the rules and regulations necessary before legal weed sales can start.

5 years ago

Cole Smith receives a Moderna variant vaccine shot from clinical research nurse Tigisty Girmay
Health

Tweaked COVID vaccines in testing aim to fend off variants

New studies of experimental updates to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines mark a critical first step toward an alternative if the virus eventually outsmarts today’s shots.

5 years ago

Jack Hurley celebrating his 20th birthday with his sisters Clare (left) and Nora (right) (Courtesy of Jack Hurley)
Health

How a new technology is helping people with congenital heart defects

About 40,000 babies are born with heart defects annually. The FDA approved a procedure less invasive than the surgery many get during their lives.

5 years ago

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Deaths from COVID-19 are often due to the immune system overreacting to the coronavirus. New drugs to suppress that reaction are showing promise, say researchers. (Westend61/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Drugs targeting immune response to COVID-19 show promise

These reactions are triggered by coronavirus infections, and can veer out of control in some people.

5 years ago

Radio Times
Health

“ADHD 2.0” with Dr. Edward Hallowell

A generation ago, people with ADD & ADHD didn't have a medical name for how their mind worked. They were called lazy or disorganized. Dr. Edward Hallowell's work changed that.

Air Date: April 6, 2021

Listen 49:30
A nurse prepares to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital in London
Health

Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine protects younger teens

The announcement Wednesday marks a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before the next school year

5 years ago

Hospital worker receives one of the country's first coronavirus vaccinations, using the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at Yaba Mainland hospital in Lagos, Nigeria Friday, March 12, 2021. Urgent calls for COVID-19 vaccine fairness rang through African countries on Friday as more welcomed or rolled out doses from the global COVAX initiative, with officials acutely aware their continent needs much more. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Radio Times
Health

The threat of vaccine nationalism

Affluent countries are hoarding vaccines. So how do you make vaccine distribution more equitable? And what threat does vaccine nationalism pose to the ending the pandemic?

Air Date: March 23, 2021 10:00 am

Listen 49:45
AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are seen inside a fridge
NPR
Health

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial data questioned by safety board

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said the Data Safety and Monitoring Board is concerned "outdated information" may have been included in trial data.

5 years ago

Staff members administer the AstraZeneca vaccine
Health

AstraZeneca: US data shows vaccine effective for all ages

Although AstraZeneca’s vaccine has been authorized in more than 50 countries, it has not yet been given the green light in the U.S.

5 years ago

OHSU School of Medicine student Mollie Marr stands in front of a whiteboard holding a laptop. She helps organize a letter-writing campaign for students to share personal stories about the impact of losing a proposed tax waiver for tuition for graduate students, December 1, 2017. Marr is pursuing her M.D. and her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience in the OHSU School of Medicine, and losing the tax waiver could mean dropping out of OHSU. (OHSU/Kristyna Wentz-Graff)
The Pulse
Health

Should medical schools require a standardized test for admission?

The MCAT is supposed to gauge future success. But it can also be a financial barrier to underrepresented groups.

5 years ago

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