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Every week listeners hear stories about race and identity that expand their minds, and learn practical ways to make their lives better. It's lifelong learning that ranges from the big picture to tiny details and everything in between.

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Health

Girl walking
Voices in the Family
Home & Family

Leaving the kids alone

Across the country, parents have gotten in trouble with the law for letting their children walk home from a park or from school by themse ...

Air Date: September 5, 2016

Listen 00:03:07
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Speak Easy
Behavioral Health
Home & Family

This is what I’m doing while you are asleep

I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...

10 years ago

Vanessa Hazzard and Iresha Picot pose with a collection of stories they edited called 'The Color of Hope.' (Photo courtesy of Picot)
Behavioral Health

Philly women of color offer stories of hope amid struggle for mental health

Vanessa Hazzard and Iresha Picot want more people of color to feel comfortable talking about mental health care. Statistics show t ...

10 years ago

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Infrastructure
Medicine

The politics of poison ivy

Diagnosing poison ivy is easy. Getting my insurance company to pay for the generic steroid cream to cure it? Not so much. Getting ...

10 years ago

two older women laughing
Voices in the Family
Aging

Attitudes Towards Aging

Having a positive attitude about aging makes older adults more resilient when faced with stressful situations ...

Air Date: August 15, 2016

Listen 00:03:51
Crews are shown welding a pipeline connecting to a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania. The Mariner East 2 plan would build two natural gas pipelines across southern Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY
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Public Safety

Safe natural gas pipeline, union workers deserve support

Here in Pennsylvania, we are blessed to be sitting on top of one of the largest reserves of natural gas in the world. The shale revolutio ...

10 years ago

Anxious woman
Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Stress and Opioid Misuse

Inability to manage stress and negative emotions is tied to opioid misuse in adults with chronic pain, according to a new study published ...

Air Date: August 8, 2016

Listen 00:03:52
Tips Hotline MAP (PA Dept of Human Services)
Behavioral Health

Helping doctors help Pa. kids without over reliance on psychiatric drugs

After two years of progress reducing how often Pennsylvania kids on Medicaid are prescribed psychiatric medications, the state is offerin ...

10 years ago

Hammock
Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Slowing Down

We have about six weeks until Labor Day – so how has your summer been so far? Have you been able to fit in all of the fun and relax ...

Air Date: July 26, 2016

Listen 00:03:48
The water plant tower is seen in Flint
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History
Public Health

40 years after Legionnaires outbreak, the case for a ‘Safe Breathing Water Act’

Forty years ago this month, more than  ...

10 years ago

Bill Jones
The Pulse
Biology
Medicine

Hungary for discount dentistry? The European nation feeds the world’s growing appetite for medical tourism

If Bela Batorfi has his way, Hungary may soon be synonymous with complex dental procedures in the way that France is known for baguettes ...

10 years ago

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Man with monitor
Voices in the Family

The impact of violent images on our health

The more time we spend online, the more we end up witnessing violence and violent incidents. The video of Philando Castile bleeding to de ...

Air Date: July 18, 2016

Listen 00:03:03
Voices in the Family
Home & Family
Mental Health

Attention Deficit Disorder and Education

Attention Deficit Disorder has certainly faded from the headlines a bit in recent years, but it still affects millions of people – ...

Air Date: July 12, 2016

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Person draped in flag
Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Your Brain on Politics

Dr. Dan gathered together academics Kathleen Hall Jamieson and David Redlawsk and clinician Lisa J. Cohen for a non-partisan discussion o ...

Air Date: July 11, 2016

Listen 00:50:31
Voices in the Family
Mental Health

Correlating intense emotions with specific health conditions

Researchers have long known that intense emotions felt over time can affect our health. A new study digs a bit deeper: it analyzed argume ...

Air Date: July 5, 2016

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