Maiken Scott
Host and Executive Producer at WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA)
Host and Executive Producer at The Pulse - NPR
Host @WHYYThePulse, a weekly health+science show/podcast. Karlsruhe made, Philly forged. Kumpel, colleague, confidant.
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2 months ago |
whyy.org | Maiken Scott
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Imagine this scenario. A man, 87, is taken to the emergency room from a nursing home. He has a very serious respiratory infection and dementia. Doctors are trying to decide next steps for this patient and how invasive the treatment should be. Usually, they would call somebody to help guide the process, a family member, or somebody who’s named in a medical directive.
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2 months ago |
whyy.org | Maiken Scott
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Bad advice. That’s what Jenny Ahlstrom felt like her brother-in- law, David Ahlstrom, was getting, after he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive type of blood cancer, in 2004. For example, when he was hospitalized with respiratory distress related to his illness, his family was told he had just hours to live, and they should just let him go.
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Nov 10, 2024 |
whyy.org | Maiken Scott
"You'd have this soft adhesive that's strong and easily peeled off, and can do that over and over again, so you don't have to keep replacing medical tape," she explained. Like gecko feet, the tape would also stick and stay on despite sweat or oil from patients' skin. Stark is part of a growing field called biomimicry. The idea is to look to nature with its seemingly endless examples of brilliant design and engineering, to learn how these systems work, and try to replicate them.
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Sep 29, 2024 |
whyy.org | Maiken Scott
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, almost ended up being Jaclyn McGlone’s last day alive. She woke up feeling sluggish and tired, but she pulled herself together to go coach a girls’ soccer team in a suburb of Philadelphia. When she got to the field the girls started their practice, a few other teams were having matches nearby. McGlone felt really out of it, not herself.
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Sep 17, 2024 |
whyy.org | Maiken Scott
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In 1991, Patrick Kennedy, the youngest son of then U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, was serving in the Rhode Island state legislature when a bombshell article came out in the National Enquirer. Kennedy’s former roommate from an addiction treatment facility had sold his story to the tabloid.
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