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Mental Health

Loyalty in relationships, in politics, and at work

Guests: Dacher Keltner, Jeff Shesol When President Trump was reciting ‘Scout’s Law’ a the recent Boy Scout ...

Air Date: July 31, 2017

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 Trash near a heroin encampment is seen from a Conrail vehicle on Thursday. (Joel Wolfram / WHYY)
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philadelphia and Conrail launch work to clear railroad heroin encampment

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...

8 years ago

 A billboard advertises discounted cigarettes adjacent to a field used to grow tobacco on the Seneca Nation's Cattauragus reservation in Western New York. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Medicine

Tribes hope tradition will fight unhealthy tobacco use

Cheap tribal cigarettes can complicate tobacco control on reservations. States and cities have come to understand that if they jac ...

8 years ago

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 Waves breaking along a Jersey Shore beach. (Justin Auciello for NewsWorks)
Down the Shore
New Jersey
Public Health
Public Spaces

UPDATE: Bacteria spurs N.J. beach closures

UPDAT ...

8 years ago

President Donald Trump departs after speaking during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Speak Easy
Insurance
Medicine
Public Health

Can Republicans give Americans with disabilities the health insurance reform they need?

Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...

8 years ago

painkillers
Voices in the Family

The Pain of it All

At some point or another we all confront some sort of pain. Pain is necessary. We need it to alert us that something is wrong, but when a ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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 Two workers take a nap on a roof in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Di Lolli, File)
Speak Easy
International
Mental Health
National

Time for Americans to take a break?

A recent study estimates that 36 percent of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress that costs businesses $30 billion a year in lost workdays.

8 years ago

 The City of Philadelphia and Conrail will work together to clean and secure the Conrail property in the Fairhill-Kensington neighborhood long used as a campground for drug addicts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Behavioral Health
Philadelphia
Public Health

Conrail cleanup challenge: helping Philly heroin users into treatment

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

8 years ago

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New Jersey joins California and Hawaii as the only states that you have to be 21 years old to smoke. (Shutterstock image)
Behavioral Health
New Jersey
Public Health

New Jersey is third state to raise smoking age to 21

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

8 years ago

 Cathleen Watkins (left)  and SaraLiz Gausz (right) presented a conference on trauma in K-12. (Anne Hoffman for NewsWorks)
Behavioral Health

Focusing awareness, understanding on helping traumatized kids heal

The goal is a lofty one — to transform the city of Philadelphia. Organizers of Greater Philadelphia Trauma Training Conference are goin ...

8 years ago

Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank. (Liz Tung/WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment
International
Medicine

Why heat is central to health in traditional Chinese medicine

For Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank, treating patients boils down to one thing: patterns. “We have a saying i ...

8 years ago

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Speak Easy
Business
Insurance
Medicine

Insurance companies are part of the opioid addiction problem

At first, I just felt very anxious, but anxiety soon led to physical shaking. My stomach felt like someone who weighed 300 pounds was sta ...

8 years ago

 Mark Kelly, left, and his identical twin brother Scott Kelly, right. (<a href=Photo via NASA) " title="kellytwins" width="1" height="1"/>
The Pulse
Aging
Behavioral Health
Space

Double the data: studying space’s impact on identical twins

Astronauts often become lab rats of sorts – scientists have an intense interest in studying how space affects their bodies and mind ...

8 years ago

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History
Space
Technology

Houston, we have a people problem: the first ‘mutiny’ in space

In 1973, a communication snafu between astronauts in space and their colleagues on Earth, alerted NASA to the need for people skills and ...

8 years ago

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Debbie Holbrook has been a sexual assault nurse examiner for 20 years. (Kevin Parks/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Medicine
Social Justice

The health care shortage that impacts victims of sexual assault

Some rape victims have to travel hours to get an exam from a nurse with special training and forensic expertise. Debbie Holbrook s ...

8 years ago

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