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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Health

Members at the Selfhelp Benjamin Rosenthal Senior Center in Queens, New York, perform tai chi on a Friday morning (Jad Sleiman)
The Pulse
Aging
Behavioral Health

Chinese elders ‘walk the middle path’ to better mental health

A senior center in Queens, New York offers dialectical behavior therapy —combining modern therapy and eastern philosophy to fight depression, anxiety.

7 years ago

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Barbara Paulsen, 59, runs on a beach in Carmel, California. She plans to do everything she can to stay active as she ages. (Teo Furtado)
The Pulse
Aging
Gender

Reconsidering hormone replacement therapy

In 2002, when a giant study ended, lots of women threw their estrogen pills in the trash. In her late 50s, Barbara Paulsen reexamines the latest evidence for herself.

7 years ago

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Vials of flavored liquid at a store selling electronic cigarettes and related items in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Home & Family
National
Public Health

Calling teen vaping ‘epidemic,’ officials weigh flavor ban

U.S. health officials are sounding the alarm about teenage use of e-cigarettes, calling the problem an "epidemic."

7 years ago

A scene from
Mental Health
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Opera raises curtain on living with schizophrenia

The idea is to address the stigma of mental illness with music. The opera is based on a memoir from a law and psychiatry professor.

7 years ago

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia
NewsWorks Tonight
Public Health
Race & Ethnicity

Philly hospital finds depression treatment stops memory loss in African-Americans

Therapists treating depression use the method involving intentional goal setting to increase cognitive, social and physical activity.

7 years ago

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Shown is the view from the Pennsylvania Capitol building Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP)
Aging
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Report shows vast differences in life expectancy from one neighborhood to another

Local disparities in life expectancy can be found across the country.

7 years ago

Delaware health officials say a record number of overdose deaths appear to be linked to fentanyl. (File photo)
Addiction
Delaware
Mental Health
Public Health

Monthly overdose deaths break record in Delaware

Last month, 39 fatal overdoses were reported, eclipsing the previous record of 27 in April.

7 years ago

Gov. John Carney signed three bills aimed at addressing Delaware's opioid crisis. (Zoe Read/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Addiction
Behavioral Health
Delaware

Gov. Carney signs legislation establishing nation’s first overdose care system

Carney signed three pieces of legislation Monday aimed at addressing overdose deaths.

7 years ago

Listen 1:41
Children's vomiting reaction is easily triggered and sometimes all parents can do is hold back their hair and wait it out.
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NPR
Explainers
Kids

The queasy truth about why kids are so prone to vomiting

The mechanism of vomiting, or emesis, is the same in kids and adults.

7 years ago

Viruses thrive in the security lines at airports, according to several studies. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Travel

Where are the most viruses in an airport? Hint: It’s probably not the toilet

When you go through airport security, you might wish you had a pair of gloves on like the TSA agents do.

7 years ago

In this animation from Invisibilia's season one episode
NPR
Behavioral Health

Can you affect another person’s behavior with your thoughts?

The answer is "of course not" ... right?

7 years ago

The HealthCare.gov website main page. The Trump administration is clearing the way for insurers to sell short-term health plans as a bargain alternative to pricey “Obamacare” for consumers struggling with high premiums. But the policies don’t have to cover pre-existing conditions and benefits are limited. It’s not certain if that’s going to translate into broad consumer appeal among people who need an individual policy. (HHS via AP)
Insurance
Pennsylvania
Transforming Health

Report: Affordable Care Act premiums will show slight increase in 2019

Pennsylvanians with insurance on the Affordable Care Act exchange will see little or no premium increase next year, according to data compiled by Associated Press.

7 years ago

Insite, Vancouver’s supervised injection facility, provides people with clean injection supplies. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
NPR

What’s the evidence that supervised drug injection sites save lives?

7 years ago

Image: Irina Zhorov
The Pulse
Environment

Hurricane Maria: Puerto Rico One Year Later

It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, destroying lives and reducing many communities to rubble. The storm a ...

Air Date: September 7, 2018

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(Lucy Perkins / 90.5 WESA)
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Home & Family
Politics
WESA

Before Roe: How Pa. hospitals used a legal loophole to provide abortions

The emergency room at was a very different place 40 years ago than it is today.

7 years ago

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