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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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The results of genetic testing --whether done for health reasons or ancestry searches — can be used by insurance underwriters in evaulating an application for life insurance, or a disability or long-term-care policy.
(Science Photo Library RF/Getty Images)
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Health

Genetic tests can hurt your chances of getting some types of insurance

Taking a genetic test in your 20s or 30s could, indeed, affect your ability to get long-term-care insurance later.

8 years ago

Lisa Iezzoni is professor of medicine at Harvard. She has multiple sclerosis and researches disparities in health care for people with disabilities.
(Elana Gordon/WHYY)
NPR
Health

Doctors with disabilities push for culture change in medicine

The Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, But culture change has been slow to take hold in the medical profession.

8 years ago

Delaware Water Gap. (Kim Paynter/WHYYNews)
Science

$4.3M fund to support Delaware River watershed conservation

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation are launching a $4.3 million fund to support conservation efforts in the Del. River watershed.

8 years ago

Dr. Dan Gottlieb's late pet shih tzu, Cinnamon. (Image courtesy of Dr. Dan Gottlieb)
Voices in the Family
Health

Saying Goodbye to a Beloved Pet

WHYY’s Maiken Scott spoke with psychologist Dr. Dan Gottlieb about the grief of saying goodbye to a beloved animal – and how we work ...

Air Date: August 6, 2018

Listen 04:06
Moms Caylon Fowlkes, with Arielle, 4 months, (left) and Charmer Nelson, and Azaiah, 4 months, participate in the Big Latch event in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Breastfeeding moms go public in Philly for global campaign

Raising awareness about many health benefits of breastfeeding, dozens of moms gather in Philadelphia for the 'Big Latch.'

8 years ago

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Health

Drugs detected in private well water in north central Pennsylvania

Simply put, drugs leave the body and go down the toilet. There are similar types of drugs in similar concentrations in water in Canada, the U.S., and most of Europe.

8 years ago

Emergency room sign. (Blake Farmer/WPLN)
NPR
Health

When doctors struggle with suicide, their profession often fails them

An estimated 300 to 400 doctors kill themselves each year, a rate of 28 to 40 per 100,000 or more than double that of general population.

8 years ago

At the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier in southern California, researchers logged the warmest sea surface temperature in 102 years. (Tim Buss/Flickr)
NPR
Science

San Diego researchers measure highest ocean surface temperature in a century

Wednesday's 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit at the pier surpassed a previous record of 78.4 degrees in 1931.

8 years ago

NASA has named nine astronauts to crew the first test flights and missions of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule. (From left) Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover. (NASA)
NPR
Science

NASA announces crew for first commercial space flights

In 2019, SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner are both scheduled to blast off on test flights with NASA astronauts on board.

8 years ago

Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Health

It’s ‘Shark Tank’ for global health inventions

Ten participants showcased a variety of innovations, each in different stages of development.

8 years ago

Along the back of this field of sugar snap peas, sunflowers and bachelor buttons at Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center is a buffer of maturing big-leaf maples and red-osier dogwoods. It's a combination of forest and thicket that the farm has left standing to help protect water quality in the river and aquifer.
(Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center)
NPR
Science

Which vision of farming is better for the planet?

Farmers face a growing dilemma. Specifically, a food-growing dilemma. How do you feed an increasing number of people without harming the environment?

8 years ago

David T. Jones is commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Health

Behavioral health chief says Philly paves road to sobriety with treatment options

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn speaks with David T. Jones of the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services.

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Health

Why We Travel

We travel to experience awe or learn something new — maybe even to get our worldview shaken up a bit. On this episode, The Pulse explor ...

Air Date: August 3, 2018

Listen 48:54
DNA phenotyping helped scientists create a composite of an unidentified woman whose body was found in 1977. (New Castle County Police)
Science

DNA technology could help solve decades-old Delaware case

New Castle County Police hope a lifelike composite image of the woman will lead them to family members and eventually solve the decades-old cold case.

8 years ago

Humpback whales feed at the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary near Provincetown, Mass., on July 9, 2014. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
NPR
Science
Fresh Air

Scientists are ‘Spying On Whales’ to learn how they eat, talk and … walked?

"We live in the golden age of whale science."

8 years ago

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