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The grey facade of a New Jersey jali against a grey sky
Courts & Law

Recent overdoses highlight the difficulty of keeping drugs out of jails

On the first Friday of this month, four inmates at the Cumberland County jail in South Jersey overdosed in their cells almost simultaneously.

8 years ago

Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Girls in the Boy Scouts / Iran deal / Undermining the ACA

Guests: Kate Tuttle, Dan De Luce, Mary Agnes Carey We begin our show today talking about the Boy Scouts and their ...

Air Date: October 16, 2017

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A scientist in a white lab coat works in a Spark Therapeutics lab.
Science

FDA panel backs gene therapy from Philly's Spark Therapeutics

The therapy can help children with a rare genetic eye disorder see better. It comes after two other recent significant developments in gene therapy.

8 years ago

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Joe Biden
Community

Biden foundation partners with Doylestown Health to help prevent sex abuse of kids

Former Vice President Joe Biden visits Warminster to announce efforts of son's foundation to train medical professionals in better recognizing signs of molestation.

8 years ago

During an appearance Thursday night at Rowan University, former Gov. Chris Christie blasted New Jersey's current Gov. Phil Murphy, claiming Murphy is casting too much blame on him. (AP, file)
Health

Task force offers 40 recommendations to help N.J. fight opioid epidemic

Gov. Chris Christie devotes $200 million in initiatives, rest of his term to battling tide of opioid overdoses.

8 years ago

An ambulance pulls out of the emergency entrance at Temple University Hospital.
Politics & Policy

U.S. could cut payments to hospitals treating uninsured patients

Hospitals treating poor populations could be seeing cuts to subsidies in 2017.

8 years ago

A woman speaks through a bullhorn, immigrants hold signs, listen to her speak during a rally
Courts & Law

Why health care providers are pressing Trump to keep DACA

As the Trump administration moves to end DACA, health care providers rally behind the roughly 20,000 recipients they say fill important needs in the medical industry.

8 years ago

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Harry Azoff, 93, checkered shirt in an easy chair
Arts & Entertainment

Serious illness gives way to comic relief as Philly hospice patient helps craft comedy

Despite his 93 years and end-stage renal disease, Harry Azoff is surprisingly active.

8 years ago

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Split screen of Republicans U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania (left) and Tom MacArthur; dent in blue tie, MacArthur in red
Politics & Policy

GOP conducts post-mortem on failed attempts to dislodge Obamacare

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur of South Jersey put his neck out when he teamed up with far-right conservatives to reach the deal that ended with an Obamacare-repeal bill.

8 years ago

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Homeless veteran James Thomas, 62, who was sleeping along the Miami River, talks with officials from the Veteran's Administration during the Point In Time Homeless Census, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, in Miami.
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Far from battlefield, soldiers forced to continue fighting

Most of us recall when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, but in the American post-war narrative, many recently retired troops have become marginalized by our government.

8 years ago

Author Marta Rusek is shown in various photographs at various ages of her life.
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

Autism found me, and then I found my voice

Since my diagnosis with autism in 2015 at age 30, a bolder, more outspoken side of myself has emerged.

8 years ago

A woman holds her 49-day-old grandson who was being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy. The baby was treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New Jersey. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Health

Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000.

8 years ago

Mary Jo Groves, a medical doctor from Springfield, Ohio, attends a rally hosted by The Mad As Hell Doctors tour to raise support for health care reform and a single payer system, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 at Lafayette Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Radio Times
Health

Dems line up behind Medicare-for-all, GOP tries to repeal ACA

Guests: Jeff Stein, Walter Tsou, Micah Weinberg When Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer healthcare bil ...

Air Date: September 22, 2017

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A woman holds her 49-day-old grandson who was being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy. The baby was treated at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, New Jersey. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Lifestyle

Opioid use during pregnancy now a concern for health officials

Nationally, the number of babies suffering from neonatal abstinence syndrome is up fivefold since 2000. The syndrome can occur if a woman ...

8 years ago

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, flanked by people whose loved ones have been addicted to opioids, announces new details of a 41-state investigation into the role of pharmaceutical companies in the opioid epidemic. (Laura Banshoff/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Shapiro details massive, multistate probe into drug companies’ role in opioid crisis

Standing on the turf of Upper Dublin High School’s football field, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro drew the connection b ...

8 years ago

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