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The sheer size and number of Marcellus Shale drill sites and their truck traffic are altering Pa. land use.
RENOVO, Pa. - For decades, natural-gas drilling has been part of the landscape in Sproul State Forest, a vast timberland in northern Pennsylvania pocked with hundreds of shallow wells and crossed by pipelines.
At Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia, one of the region's largest specialty physician groups, the expensive quest to get paid by dozens of insurance companies begins days before a patient shows up for an appointment and can take weeks or months.
- Five promising local diabetes projects
- Special report: Philly vs diabetes
Transcript: Dr. Nissa Blocher on diabetes
This special section, with contributions from The Inquirer and the Daily News, looks at new thinking about the care of patients with diabetes, promising research, the ins and outs of weight-loss surgery, plus innovative resources in the Philly region.
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After getting out of the Army in 2006, Brian Smith kicked around from job to job. He worked as a security guard. He was a retail supervisor. He spent some months at a warehouse. Nothing seemed to last.
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When a Philadelphia animal-welfare activist heard that nearly 400 Lancaster County dogs had been trucked to an auction in Ohio last month, he saw it as a chance to call attention to animal abuse in Pennsylvania.
- They will decide whether to take up the debate. Democrats still must persuade two of their members to come aboard.WASHINGTON - The Senate is poised to approve today the start of a historic debate over health-care legislation aimed at making coverage easier, less expensive to obtain, and harder to lose.
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The ConocoPhillips refinery in Delaware County has been fined $38,137 for air-quality violations. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which announced the fine yesterday, the refinery failed to report emissions, incorrectly reported emissions, and exceeded emission limits.
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WASHINGTON - First mammograms. Now - in an apparent coincidence - Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.
- Pa. intended Act 62 to cover some autism costs but it hasn't.With the passage of Act 62 in July 2008, Pennsylvania appeared primed to become a leader in the treatment of autism, offering parents of autistic children up to $36,000 in annual health insurance benefits.
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Common sense tells women that while mammography is an imperfect, inadequate defense against a disease that will kill 40,000 of them this year, it is better than nothing.
Latest Health and Science News
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WASHINGTON - As he raced through the U.S. Capitol this fall, Richard "Buz" Cooper, a 73-year-old University of Pennsylvania medical school professor, didn't mince words. He denounced as "malarkey" a reigning premise of the health-care debate - that one-third of the nation's $2.5 trillion in annual health spending is unnecessary - and said that the idea came from "a bunch of clowns."
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We've never met. But Paul Stern knows a lot more about me than I care to admit. He knows that while I'm racing around turning out lights and turning off the shower while I suds up, my attic is like a giant sieve, with cold winds zipping through.
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The common laboratory worm Caenorhabditis elegans is one of nature's most widely studied creatures, yet scientists still aren't sure how it developed an amazing trick:
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Question: I recently had a miscarriage, and I'd like to know how long I should wait before trying to conceive again. What do you think caused it?
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On June 15, Richard Ramsey checked into Lower Bucks Hospital in Bristol Township for major surgery. When he left three days later, Ramsey was no longer Richard, but Renee. Her first words to her doctor when she awakened after the operation were, "Now I'm the lady I always knew I was."
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Inquirer environmental reporter Sandy Bauers writes on how to live a more ecologically sensitive life.
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My 87-year-old patient fell at her nursing home in West Chester and was quite black and blue when she arrived at the Wills Eye Emergency Room. Her eye had borne the brunt of it. Stitches around an old corneal transplant had ripped open as well as those from an old cataract wound. If that didn't get repaired in 24 hours, she risked getting a serious infection.
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WASHINGTON - On Dec. 5, 2007, EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson prepared to send the White House an extraordinary document. It declared that climate change imperiled the public welfare - a decision that would trigger the nation's first mandatory global-warming regulations.
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In a dozen cases since 2001, federal judges in Washington have used increasingly caustic language to throw out EPA regulations, chastising the Bush administration for illegally changing U.S. environmental rules.
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CHARLESTON, Tenn. - In January 2005, residents near the chlorine plant here discovered that it was the biggest mercury emitter in the state. Environmentalists warned them against eating fish from their beloved Hiwassee River.
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Leading environmental scientists have denounced EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson for substituting politics for science on key pollution issues - from not regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming to delaying the assessment of toxic chemicals. But it was in a succession of decisions on air quality that Johnson's uneven application of science had perhaps the most severe impacts on human health.
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Smoke and Mirrors. The Subversion of the EPA - See videos including an exclusive interview with EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, interactive graphics, photos, and more.
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Inquirer Staff Writer Michael Vitez on the casualties of the Health Insurance Crises.
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