Health & Science
Air Date: November 22, 2018
Listen 49:10Temple brings black men in medicine together to boost doctors of color
Temple University’s medical school gathered black physicians and young African-American men who are considering medicine.
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State to hold public meeting on PFAS contamination
The meeting will be held Friday, November 30 at 9am the Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg and will also be live-streamed online.
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How hippie food became mainstream
Air Date: November 21, 2018 10:00 am
Listen 49:00Philly doctors join national debate with NRA over gun safety
Dr. Samir Mehta treats a lot of gunshot victims. He doesn’t always see them in a crisis setting, like an ER doctor would, but he’s dealing with the long-term impacts.
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Air Date: November 19, 2018
Listen 06:14Air Date: November 19, 2018 12:00 am
Listen 46:27California offers safe space for firefighters to work through stress and trauma
Fighting fires has been compared to the military in another way — the stress that soldiers go through.
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Facebook increasingly reliant on A.I. to predict suicide risk
A year ago, Facebook started using artificial intelligence to scan people's accounts for danger signs of imminent self-harm.
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Take a weight off: Tears, joy as kilo gets historic update
"We put in place a system that doesn't depend on something that is 140 years old."
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Air Date: November 16, 2018
Listen 47:22Forging family through adoption
Tara and Alan Atchison couldn’t have biological children. Here’s how they made a family anyway.
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Listen 06:53As Philly clears another encampment, what happened to homeless in previous sweep?
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