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Ornamental St. Johns Wort, found in The Benjamin Rush Medicinal Plant Garden located at The Mütter Museum, was used to treat depression. Early herbalists found it to have a calming affect. (Natalie Piserchio for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Mütter gives new life to Founding Father’s medicinal garden

The garden is visible from the iron fence that fronts the museum on 22nd Street near Market.

7 years ago

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Community

NewsWorks Tonight, September 14, 2018

One of Camden’s newest employers finds itself in hot water. Philadelphia’s Historical Commission hears hours of testimony on ...

Air Date: September 14, 2018

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NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, September 13, 2018

Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney and the council come to compromise on a 15-month-long battle over funding affordable housing. A local hospi ...

Air Date: September 13, 2018

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NewsWorks Tonight, September 11, 2018

President Trump speaks at the Flight 93 memorial in western Pennsylvania today.  SNAP and victims of Larry Nassar advocate for a 2 year ...

Air Date: September 11, 2018

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This Feb. 19, 2013, file photo, shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. (Toby Talbot/AP Photo)
Science

Major opioid maker to pay for overdose-antidote development

OxyContin maker announced that it's making a $3.4 million grant to help develop a low-cost naloxone nasal spray.

7 years ago

An acupuncturist in Hong Kong treats a man for hip and leg pain.  (Elaine Ng)
Health

Delaware, other state Medicaid programs consider acupuncture as opioid alternative

State governments are thinking about how to treat pain other than opioids.

7 years ago

NPR
Health

Insulin’s high cost leads to lethal rationing

Insulin is an unlikely symbol of America's problem with rising prescription costs.

7 years ago

Radio Times
Science

Aroused: how hormones control us

Guest: Randi Hutter Epstein We blame a lot on our hormones – weight gain, sex drive, sleep loss, mood swings, i ...

Air Date: September 3, 2018 10:00 am

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Doctors are working to prescribe fewer opioids in Delaware. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo, File)
Health

Delaware hospital curtails opioid prescriptions in effort to combat addiction

Christiana Care has cut opioid prescribing by as much as half in some departments by adopting guidelines and best practices for post-surgical recovery.

7 years ago

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

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(Illustration by Steve Teare)
The Pulse
Health

Times have changed. Is sex ed ready?

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

7 years ago

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Inducing labor at 39 weeks may involve IV medications and continuous fetal monitoring. But if the pregnancy is otherwise uncomplicated, mother and baby can do just fine, the latest evidence suggests. (Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Pregnancy debate revisited: to induce labor, or not?

Healthy women with normal pregnancies can opt to have labor induced without worrying that the decision will make a cesarean section more likely.

7 years ago

The results of genetic testing --whether done for health reasons or ancestry searches — can be used by insurance underwriters in evaulating an application for life insurance, or a disability or long-term-care policy.
(Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Genetic tests can hurt your chances of getting some types of insurance

Taking a genetic test in your 20s or 30s could, indeed, affect your ability to get long-term-care insurance later.

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

Thom ?? holds a container of dry-leaf marijuana, which was made available for sale at dispensaries in Pennsylvania for the first time. About 50 people lined up outside TerraVida Holistic Centers in Abington hours before the dispensary opened at 10 a.m.
Health

Cheaper ‘dry-leaf’ medical marijuana draws crowds to Philly-area dispensaries

The dried, cured flower is now legal for sale at medical marijuana dispensaries in Pennsylvania.

8 years ago

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