Health & Safety

A pulmonologist shares what he's watching for after East Palestine derailment

5:34pm February 22, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Dr. Nicholas Proia, Northeastern Ohio Medical University's clinical professor of internal medicine, about the health of locals after the East Palestine train derailment.

Some Pennsylvania residents near the toxic train derailment feel left out of recovery

5:20pm February 22, 2023

by Oliver Morrison

Pennsylvania residents who live near the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio say they aren't getting the attention and recovery help that they should.

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Many people with ADHD can't get their medication amid Adderall shortage

4:47pm February 22, 2023

by Sydney Lupkin

A shortage of both generic and brand-name Adderall began in October. That's left many ADHD patients without their needed medication.

This hole was made in a Bronze Age man's skull shortly before he died, archaeologists say, based on several clues. It's the result of a surgical procedure called a trephination.

Clues to Bronze Age cranial surgery revealed in ancient bones

4:47pm February 22, 2023

by Ari Daniel

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a rare type of skull surgery dating back to the Bronze Age that's similar to a procedure still being used today.

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Overdose deaths increase 22% in North Carolina

10:54am February 22, 2023

by Neal Charnoff

North Carolina officials say the state has experienced its highest number of overdoses ever in a single year.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is chairing the Senate's top health committee which is focused on solving the U.S. health care worker shortage.

Fixing the health care worker shortage may be something Congress can agree on

5:00am February 22, 2023

by Michael McAuliff

The U.S. faces a shortfall of about 450,000 nurses and 120,000 doctors in the coming years. The Senate's top health committee, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, is considering bipartisan solutions.

Medical marijuana advances again at North Carolina Senate

5:31pm February 21, 2023

by Associated Press

Marijuana legalization in North Carolina for medical purposes is advancing again within the state Senate, less than a year after a very similar measure setting a structure for its sale and consumption passed the chamber by a wide margin.

Reframing Your Commute

4:48pm February 21, 2023

by Paddy Hirsch

What your commute can do for you

An ER doc reflects on life, death and uncertainty in the early days of COVID-19

2:21pm February 21, 2023

by Dave Davies

Dr. Farzon Nahvi spent the first few months of the pandemic as an emergency room physician in Manhattan. He talks about trying to improvise treatments during that time. His new book is Code Gray.

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A woman tends to lentil soup at a municipal soup kitchen in Gaziantep, Turkey. On the first day after the quake, the kitchen's director says they distributed soup to more than 200,000 people.

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Lentil soup comes to the rescue in quake-ravaged Turkey

2:02pm February 21, 2023

by Jason Beaubien

It's a supersoup during this humanitarian crisis. Easy to make, it warms the displaced, fuels rescue crews and comforts residents traumatized by the disaster.

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