Medicine
Resident doctors at Penn Medicine to demand contract both inside and outside the hospitals this week
After almost a year of negotiations, the big sticking point now is over wages. Residents say they make a little above minimum wage after accounting for long hours.
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Listen 1:27Mosquito-borne illnesses discovered throughout Philadelphia region
West Nile virus has been found in mosquitoes in nearly every county in the region, and one case of Eastern equine encephalitis was reported in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
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FDA approves two updated COVID vaccines
The new COVID vaccines are designed to keep the shots up to date with the virus, which keeps evolving to evade our immune systems.
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These drugs are among those affected by Medicare price negotiations
Here's a look at the drugs and the negotiated prices for Medicare recipients.
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More than 3,290 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the U.S. and its territories, with more than half of cases occurring in Puerto Rico.
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Crozer Health to shutter operating room services at Taylor Hospital by Sept. 1
Taylor Hospital in Ridley Park admits more than 7,000 patients each year and treats more than 28,000 patients in its emergency room.
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Blood donations were down 25% nationally in July compared to the same time last year, according to the American Red Cross.
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Listen 1:09The pediatric surgeon founded the Black Doctors Consortium and worked as a regional health director under the Biden administration.
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Listen 1:51How Philly area hospitals are dealing with a national shortage of blood culture bottles
Hospitals routinely use these bottles to check for infections in patients’ blood — now they are cutting back on tests.
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Listen 1:51Should organ donors be compensated? Plus, the psychology of smell
Would you give your kidney to a stranger? What if you could get a $50,000 tax credit for it? That's just one proposal for upping organ donation in the US.
Air Date: July 30, 2024 12:00 pm
Listen 52:40Advocates cheer new standards that could save horseshoe crabs from bloodletting
Up to 1 million horseshoe crabs in the U.S. are harvested for biomedical purposes. A synthetic alternative could mean less harvesting of the “living fossils.”
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Listen 1:15The current contract between Temple Health and Keystone First health insurance was set to expire after July 31.
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Listen 0:54COVID cases are rising in Philadelphia. Here’s what to know
The rise comes as the CDC is preparing to end its program providing free COVID-19 vaccines to people without insurance.
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Desperate for care, patients face the threat of ‘medical deportation'
Hospitals are legally required to care for undocumented patients in emergencies. But when a patient is too sick to be discharged, some turn to a controversial practice.
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Listen 11:30Are financial incentives holding back cures?
A promising new cure sparked a wave of renewed interest in gene therapies about a decade ago — but it also set off alarm bells in the financial world.
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