Health & Science
This is a transcript of our "Make (a) Way" episode.
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What does it mean to be a doctor with a disability?
Medical culture has long viewed doctors as “able-bodied in the extreme.” A growing wave of doctors with disabilities wants to challenge that.
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Listen 12:56Philly exhibit explores idea of technology as 21st-century phantom limb
The idea is that technology has distorted how we view ourselves and society — and yet, it is an inescapable part of us.
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Listen 1:47Playing video games when you can’t see the screen
A computer scientist is pushing large video game makers to design games that blind people can enjoy.
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Listen 6:32Andrea Avery was a piano whiz kid until she developed rheumatoid arthritis at age 12. The disease symptoms can leave her feeling able-bodied one day, disabled the next.
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Listen 4:28How a high school concussion inspired a tech startup
Matt Roda of Lancaster County was a junior in high school when a single hockey game changed his entire life.
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As rate of infants exposed to opioids rises, N.J. urging pregnant substance abusers to get help
Since 2008, the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome has doubled in the Garden State.
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How cities are driving animal evolution
Air Date: April 11, 2018
Listen 36:16Pa. legislation would protect the lives of those deemed undesirable
In the U.S., we’re engaging in a method of eugenics by reducing populations of babies prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome.
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State to send $25M to help clean up a dozen abandoned coal mine sites
Pennsylvania announced approval of $25 million in funding for cleanup of abandoned mines at 12 sites around the state.
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Three new flu-related deaths in Delaware
Delaware's flu season is not over as evidenced by three new flu-related deaths reported by the Delaware Division of Public Health.
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Air Date: April 9, 2018
Listen 06:03How a Pa. health system reduced opioid prescriptions by more than half
Hospitals around the country are looking at whether patients need so many opioids prescriptions. It turns out most of them don't.
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Dozens of members of Congress have called for a thorough investigation.
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