Health & Science
Christie: Doctors key to cutting through opioid epidemic — yet some share blame
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s latest stop on a state-wide anti-opioid abuse tour was on Monday, in Princeton. Nearly 200 health ...
8 years ago
Can negative people learn to look on the bright side?
Most of us know somebody who is always negative – predicting worst-case scenarios, seeing only what wen ...
Air Date: May 1, 2017
Listen 00:03:39Now more commonly observed as a celebration of spring, in older times May 1st was considered the first day of summer in some European cou ...
Air Date: May 1, 2017
Listen 00:07:17How one mom got through losing her first pregnancy
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...
8 years ago
ListenThe ‘baby penalty’ often sidelines female scientists
Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...
8 years ago
ListenLack of doctors puts rural mothers and babies at risk
Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...
8 years ago
ListenChesco residents urge officials to reject development plan for contaminated site
8 years ago
Pharmacy students see first hand Philadelphia’s naloxone shortage
Three pharmacy school students gathered outside a windowless brick storefront in Fairhill, just blocks from Philadelphia’s most not ...
8 years ago
Listen 2:23Innovation and inspiration for kids at Philadelphia Science Festival
When you are young, the science bug might bite you at any time. For a young boy named Sonny Viscelli, it happened during a visit to the T ...
8 years ago
It’s a rollercoaster raising a transgender child in the spotlight
In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...
8 years ago
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