
Medicine
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.
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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
Listen 49:00FDA 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.
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Listen 0:00Biden 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.
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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.
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U.S. could cut payments to hospitals treating uninsured patients
Hospitals treating poor populations could be seeing cuts to subsidies in 2017.
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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.
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Listen 0:00Serious 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.
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Listen 0:00GOP 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.
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Listen 0:00Far 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Listen 00:49:54Opioid 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 ...
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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 ...
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