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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Medicine

In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, rubber stoppers are placed onto filled vials of the investigational drug remdesivir at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. (Gilead Sciences via AP)
Health
WITF

Pennsylvania treasurer leads calls to lower price of remdesivir

Even before President Trump received the drug remdesivir to help treat his case of COVID-19, Pennsylvania Treasurer Joe Torsella was raising alarms about the price of the drug

6 years ago

Dr. Robert Kadlec
Health

Official says vaccine expected in January, countering Trump

A growing, bipartisan chorus of lawmakers, experts and public health officials says the country is ill prepared for a projected winter surge of COVID-19.

6 years ago

The entrance to the editorial offices of the New England Journal of Medicine in Boston
NPR
Politics & Policy

In rare step, esteemed medical journal urges voters to oust Trump

'Our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent," the medical journal's editors say in a scathing editorial.

6 years ago

Boxes of remdesivir
NPR
Politics & Policy

Ironic twist: In spring, Trump halted research key to COVID-19 drug he’s now taken

The drug, Remdesivir, emerged in part because researchers had previously tested it in China through a project whose grant was abruptly ended by the NIH.

6 years ago

Dr. Chris Pernell (right) is shown in a family photo with her father, a scientist who died of COVID-19, and her sister-in-law. (Provided by Chris Pernell)
The Why
Health

Enrolling in COVID-19 vaccine trial as a Black doctor

"My dad would frequently say to me, follow the data, follow the science." N.J. doctor Chris Pernell on why she enrolled in a COVID-19 vaccine trial.

Air Date: October 5, 2020

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Christy DeGallerie poses for a portrait Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in Dallas. DeGallerie noticed a startling trend in her online group for coronavirus survivors: White patients got medications she’d never heard of, were offered X-rays and said their doctors listened to their concerns. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Health

Cities declare racism a health crisis, but some doubt impact

“We know our pain is questioned and our pain is not real to them,” said Christy DeGallerie, who later started a group for Black COVID-19 survivors.

6 years ago

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin departs from the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Why a negative coronavirus test doesn’t necessarily mean you’re in the clear

False negatives are common in people who've been infected with the virus during the first few days after exposure.

6 years ago

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump hold hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Radio Times
Health

President Trump tests positive for COVID-19

President Trump announced early this morning that he and the First Lady have tested positive for COVID-19.

Air Date: October 2, 2020

Listen 49:45
In this Sept. 9, 2020 photo, students wear protective masks as they arrive for classes at the Immaculate Conception School while observing COVID-19 prevention protocols in The Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Radio Times
Health

Covid-19 checkup: vaccine progress and kids in school

Where do the vaccine candidates stand and how are politics complicating it all? Also, what are we learning about infections in schools that have reopened?

Air Date: September 29, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:47
Dr. David Weiner and Dr. Ami Patel work on synthetic DNA technology.
Health

Montco-based Inovio hits speed bump in coronavirus vaccine effort

Plymouth Meeting-based Inovio Pharmaceuticals has to delay upcoming coronavirus vaccine trials after an FDA inquiry.

6 years ago

President Trump holds up an executive order after delivering remarks on health care in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

What to know about those $200 drug cards President Trump promised

Health policy researchers say Trump may not be able to pay for the cards, which fall short of lasting policy changes to curb high drug prices.

6 years ago

Mercy Philadelphia Hospital in West Philadelphia. (NBC10)
Health

Penn Med, PHMC lead coalition to save Mercy Philadelphia Hospital

The 153-bed West Philly safety-net facility, and its ER, will operate as a satellite of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

6 years ago

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gov. Phil Murphy
Health

Fauci urges Americans to trust the vaccine process while talking with N.J. governor

Fauci acknowledges there’s been confusion over the timeline and approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, but he says Americans should trust the process.

6 years ago

Community Health and Literacy Center at Broad and Tasker streets
Health
Billy Penn

When a coronavirus vaccine arrives, Philadelphia is primed for battle

Implemented in 1994, the immunization registry known as PhilaVax gives the city a head start.

6 years ago

A patient receives a shot in a clinical trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine. U.S. intelligence officials say Russian hackers are attempting to break into U.S. health care organizations working on a vaccine.
Health

Philly’s role as national COVID vaccine pilot site already over

The CDC invited Philly and 4 states to help develop U.S. strategy for distributing a vaccine. After a brief consult, a playbook was released nationwide.

6 years ago

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