Public Health
Advocates, N.J. lawmakers seek fully staffed nursing board to expedite licensing, certification
Some New Jersey lawmakers and advocacy groups are urging the Christie administration to fill six vacancies on the state’s 13-member ...
7 years ago
Philadelphia and Conrail launch work to clear railroad heroin encampment
Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...
7 years ago
Guests: Zeke Emanuel, Jonathan Cohn President Trump is getting increasingly frustrated with his party’s inabili ...
Air Date: July 25, 2017
Listen 00:49:30Can Republicans give Americans with disabilities the health insurance reform they need?
Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...
7 years ago
Conrail cleanup challenge: helping Philly heroin users into treatment
Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...
7 years ago
Listen 6:29New Jersey is third state to raise smoking age to 21
New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...
7 years ago
World weather libraries offer historic clues about climate
Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio, ...
7 years ago
Listen 5:58Reshuffling resources and tapping enthusiasm, Philly launches kids health initiative
Philadelphia is starting a new push to improve the health of impoverished children. For now — it will rely on reshuffling existing re ...
7 years ago
ListenSearching for solutions to summer blood bank shortfalls
When schools and offices take vacation — people do too — blood donations slow down, leaving hospitals and blood banks to hustle for b ...
7 years ago
Listen 6:19Cleanup of heroin enclave along Conrail tracks in Kensington delayed
Work to clean up the notorious heroin encampment at the Conrail tracks in Kensington has encountered a delay. Conrail workers were ...
7 years ago
Tackling the heat island problem in concrete jungles
Health issues and energy costs soar when the temperatures rise. It’s a hot day in June when I visit Ledean Durant’s ...
7 years ago
Listen 8:02Penn State study: Vapers report less dependence, addiction than cigarette smokers
E-cigarette users report feeling less dependent and addicted than traditional smokers do, according to a recent study. Even so, researche ...
7 years ago
Listen 1:56The dangers of replacing Obamacare with the Republican health care bill
How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...
7 years ago
Philly briefs neighborhood on cleanup of Conrail heroin encampment
Philadelphia is trying to get the word out about the plan to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in West Kensington plagued by the opio ...
7 years ago