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Lawmakers and nursing advocates call for action to relieve the backlog in approving nursing licenses and home health-aide certifications.
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Advocates, N.J. lawmakers seek fully staffed nursing board to expedite licensing, certification

Some New Jersey lawmakers and advocacy groups are urging the Christie administration to fill six vacancies on the state’s 13-member ...

9 years ago

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Skytalk
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Follow the Sun

We are now just three weeks out from a total solar eclipse traversing the United States. Those lucky enough to be in the direct path will ...

Air Date: July 31, 2017

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Voices in the Family
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How to support cancer patients

When a friend, a neighbor or co-worker is dealing with cancer – most of us want to chime in – with messages of support, or em ...

Air Date: July 31, 2017

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Radio Times
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Loyalty in relationships, in politics, and at work

Guests: Dacher Keltner, Jeff Shesol When President Trump was reciting ‘Scout’s Law’ a the recent Boy Scout ...

Air Date: July 31, 2017

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Natural gas building boom fuels climate worries, enrages landowners

9 years ago

 Trash near a heroin encampment is seen from a Conrail vehicle on Thursday. (Joel Wolfram / WHYY)
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Philadelphia and Conrail launch work to clear railroad heroin encampment

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...

9 years ago

 A billboard advertises discounted cigarettes adjacent to a field used to grow tobacco on the Seneca Nation's Cattauragus reservation in Western New York. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/for WHYY)
The Pulse
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Tribes hope tradition will fight unhealthy tobacco use

Cheap tribal cigarettes can complicate tobacco control on reservations. States and cities have come to understand that if they jac ...

9 years ago

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The Pulse
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Heat Wave

It’s summer, and it’s hot. On this episode, we get stranded on an urban ‘heat island’ and learn what people are d ...

Air Date: July 28, 2017

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 Waves breaking along a Jersey Shore beach. (Justin Auciello for NewsWorks)
Down the Shore
Health

UPDATE: Bacteria spurs N.J. beach closures

UPDAT ...

9 years ago

President Donald Trump departs after speaking during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Speak Easy
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Can Republicans give Americans with disabilities the health insurance reform they need?

Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...

9 years ago

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Voices in the Family
Health

The Pain of it All

At some point or another we all confront some sort of pain. Pain is necessary. We need it to alert us that something is wrong, but when a ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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Shine on, you crazy Earth

This is a great week to watch the development of lunar phases. Start watching on Monday night, with a barely visible 1.5-day old thin cre ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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Speak Easy
Health

Time for Americans to take a break?

A recent study estimates that 36 percent of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress that costs businesses $30 billion a year in lost workdays.

9 years ago

 The City of Philadelphia and Conrail will work together to clean and secure the Conrail property in the Fairhill-Kensington neighborhood long used as a campground for drug addicts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Conrail cleanup challenge: helping Philly heroin users into treatment

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

9 years ago

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New Jersey joins California and Hawaii as the only states that you have to be 21 years old to smoke. (Shutterstock image)
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New Jersey is third state to raise smoking age to 21

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

9 years ago

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