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Aaron Carroll’s ‘Bad Food Bible’

Guest: Aaron Carroll Is salt good or bad for you? What about saturated fat or eggs? Should I eat gluten? Do coffe ...

Air Date: November 17, 2017

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Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson meets with Pat Vitkow, a patient with ALS. (Joel Wolfram for WHYY)

At ALS clinic, supporting mental health care not an afterthought

Living with ALS is an extraordinary psychological challenge, and at this clinic, mental health services are integrated into patients’ medical care.

9 years ago

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The complicated ‘science’ of individual Communion cups

Individual communion cups were supposed to be about protection from germs. But a look back shows Americans had other reasons to stop sharing a communion cup.

9 years ago

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Pursuing Happiness

Happiness is more than the feeling you get after eating a delicious meal. But what is happiness? On this Voices in the Family special, Dr ...

Air Date: November 16, 2017

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Some legislation under consideration in Congress focuses on the safe disposal of prescription opioids. (AP file photo)
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The roots of the opioid epidemic

Guests: Keith Wailoo, Lenny Bernstein Pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors, doctors, drug stores and illeg ...

Air Date: November 16, 2017

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Uwe Reinhardt
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New Jersey
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Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt dies at 80

"Uwe Reinhardt was a giant in our field, a moral compass for American health care," said Drew Altman, President and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

9 years ago

Anthony Edwards
Speak Easy
Behavioral Health
Mental Health

As sexual abuse victims find their voice, don’t forget the process of their recovery

I have been counseling survivors of all types of abuse and assault for over 20 years. It is not uncommon for me to meet someone decades after their trauma occurred.

9 years ago

FILE - In this May 1966 file photo, a U.S. Air Force C-123 flies low along a South Vietnamese highway spraying defoliants on dense jungle growth beside the road to eliminate ambush sites for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, Air Force C-123 planes sprayed millions of gallons of herbicides over the jungles of Southeast Asia to destroy enemy crops and tree cover. The military stopped the spraying by early 1971, but some Air Force Reserve units continued to fly the former spray planes until the early 1980s. Some veterans who flew in those planes after the war have been getting sick, and like many Vietnam veterans, they’re blaming the herbicides they say still coated the planes for decades. Their crusade has been led by a former Oregon resident and Air Force veteran.(AP Photo/Department of Defense, File)
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50 Years After The Vietnam War, Veterans Law Clinic Helps Agent Orange Victims

9 years ago

Lou Farren (left) and Brad Ward both served in Vietnam, and received lungs from the same organ donor.
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Vietnam vets become ‘lung brothers’

Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

9 years ago

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Pennsylvania National Guard veteran Darcel Rideout wearing camouflage uniform and headset smiles at the camera
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Suicide crisis reaches beyond combat veterans

Veterans overall have a 22 percent higher risk of suicide than the general population, but women who served are more than twice as likely to take their own life.

9 years ago

Doctors transplant a uterus
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Penn launches clinical trial for uterine transplants

Eight babies have been born in Sweden after their mothers received uterine transplants, but this has yet to be done in the U.S.

9 years ago

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Philly-area high schools upgrade helmets, but there’s room for improvement

Given the dangers of brain trauma from helmet-to-helmet contact, would you want your child to play high school football? A new Philadelphia Inquirer analysis offers insight.

9 years ago

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This photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo)
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Delaware officials say opioid prescriptions declining

The Division of Professional Regulations say new regulations are preventing over prescribing.

9 years ago

Volunteers and residents mingle in Camp Alpha at dinnertime.
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Offering homeless vets social support first — before housing

Veterans on Patrol runs controversial, sometimes illegal, camps to get chronically homeless vets off the street.

9 years ago

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An NJ Transit train pulls into the station (Mel Evans/AP, file)
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44 train engineers diagnosed with sleep apnea, sidelined

Dozens of New Jersey Transit train engineers have been sidelined because testing imposed after a deadly rail crash found they suffered from sleep apnea.

9 years ago

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