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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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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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Times have changed. Is sex ed ready?

The LGBTQ and #MeToo movements are shifting our cultural attitudes. Is what we teach in the classroom shifting, too?

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A syringe found on a Monmouth County beach last month. (Photo: Robert Siliato)
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Syringes once again wash ashore on some N.J. beaches

Medical waste has once again washed ashore on some New Jersey beaches. 

8 years ago

The Natural Cycles smartphone app figures out the days of the month when a woman is likely to be fertile. (Nishat Ahmed/AP)
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FDA stirs contraception debate with OK for ‘natural’ birth control app

The Natural Cycles app instructs women to take their temperature at the same time every morning when they awake and record it in the app.

8 years ago

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New Jersey kids better off than most in U.S., but poverty rates vary widely by county

About 15 percent of kids in the Garden State live in poverty, while the national average is 21 percent.

8 years ago

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New Jersey
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3 N.J. beaches under swimming advisories due to elevated bacteria

Three New Jersey beaches are under swimming advisories Tuesday due to elevated bacteria counts. 

8 years ago

Voices in the Family
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How to give good advice

Advice from others can be helpful – but it’s not always welcome. When a neighbor, colleague or loved one tries to tell you how to liv ...

Air Date: August 21, 2018

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Researchers are trying to understand why black and Latino children are more likely to die of certain cancers.
NPR
Health Care
Race & Ethnicity

Why are black and Latino kids more likely to die of certain cancers?

When it comes to cancer survival, the United States is sharply divided by race.

8 years ago

Barb Williamson runs a drug recovery house in Bucks County. She recently changed her policy after complaints that she wasn't admitting people who use medication-assisted treatments such as Suboxone. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Public Health

On front lines of opioid crisis, recovery houses slowly accepting contested treatment approach

Patients using medication-assisted treatments slowly being accepted into group recovery homes.

8 years ago

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Screening for lung cancer can catch tumors but it can also produce false positives. Patients need to decide whether it's right for them, but doctors often don't know how to advise them. (FS Productions/Getty Images/Blend Images)
NPR
Health Care
Technology

Should you get that scan? Your doctor might not be great at helping you decide

"It's about a deeper issue: ... Is healthcare structured to give patients the information they need to make informed decisions?"

8 years ago

The sign on a Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh, photographed in 2017.
(Gene J. Puskar/AP)
NPR
Food & Drink
National

Chipotle to retrain employees after latest outbreak of food poisoning

Health officials have determined that a type of bacteria found in food left at unsafe temperatures is the cause of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.

8 years ago

Adesola Ogunleye holds a picture of herself as a young child. She says childhood abuse has played into the anxiety she deals with now, as an adult. (Liz Tung/WHYY)
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Childhood stress wires the brain for adult anxiety

For Adesola Ogunleye, it took more than 20 years to understand the roots of her anxiety

8 years ago

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Behavioral Health

Inside a panic attack

Our bodies are programmed to go on alert in the face of danger. But what happens when that reflex goes haywire?

8 years ago

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Marlon Munoz still becomes emotional when he remembers having to tell his wife, Aibi Perez, that she had breast cancer, because no other interpreter was available to share the news. (Ryan Collerd for Undark)
NPR
Health Care

With scarce access to interpreters, immigrants struggle to understand doctors’ orders

The 1964 Civil Rights Act require hospitals and other facilities that offer medical services and receive federal funds to provide "meaningful access" to patients.

8 years ago

(Justin Auciello for WHYY)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors
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For first time in at least 20 years, swimming prohibited at Seaside Heights beaches Thursday

It's a historic day in Seaside Heights but not for a good reason. 

8 years ago

The Nashik Civil District Hospital is a government facility about 100 miles outside Mumbai. The director, Dr. Suresh Jagdale, acknowledges that the mortality rate is higher than that of private hospitals, but he says he's proud to offer free health treatment to India's poor.
(Lauren Frayer/NPR)
NPR
International

India aims for the world’s biggest health care overhaul

In his annual Independence Day speech on Wednesday, Narendra Modi is expected to unveil the biggest government health care program in the world.

8 years ago

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