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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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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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Pa. urges parents to hurry up, have kids vaccinated for school

If you’re a Pennsylvania public school parent hemming and hawing over when to bring your child in for a vaccination shot, the commo ...

8 years ago

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Health

New role: Deputy coroner helps save heroin overdose victim

A Pennsylvania woman who gets paid to pronounce people dead is being credited with helping save the life of a heroin overdose victim. ...

8 years ago

First
Health

First Person: Dr. Kara Odom Walker

First Person this week is the head of Delaware’s Department of Health and Social Services Dr. Kara Odom Walker. We discuss t ...

8 years ago

This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. (Patrick Sison/AP Photo)
Health

Study finds one in three Philadelphia residents used an opioid last year

One third of adults in Philadelphia have used an opioid in the last year, and the majority of those drugs came directly from a doctor. Th ...

8 years ago

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Health

Delaware horse infected with West Nile

A horse in Delaware was euthanized after it was infected with West Nile Virus. This is the first time this year a horse has been i ...

8 years ago

 Residents pack a Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing Tuesday to protest a medical marijuana dispensary, which in March gained city approved to open in Mt. Airy. (Bobby Allyn / WHYY)
Money

Dozens in Mt. Airy protest planned medical pot facility on Stenton Avenue

Droves of residents who live near a proposed medical marijuana dispensary in Northwest Philadelphia packed a heated zoning appeals hearin ...

8 years ago

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 Ballerina flats are the worst shoes to wear if you want to prevent sweaty, smelly feet. (WHYY News)
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Health

How to deal with sweaty, smelly feet

We do a lot of walking during the summer, slogging a few blocks to the beach in the blazing sun, carrying those pesky chairs and the umbr ...

8 years ago

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 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
Health

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 ...

8 years ago

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Science

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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Politics & Policy

What will become of the ACA?

Guests: Zeke Emanuel, Jonathan Cohn President Trump is getting increasingly frustrated with his party’s inabili ...

Air Date: July 25, 2017

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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
Health

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 ...

8 years ago

Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank. (Liz Tung/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Why heat is central to health in traditional Chinese medicine

For Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank, treating patients boils down to one thing: patterns. “We have a saying i ...

8 years ago

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 Transdermal Fentanyl patch (Image courtesy of Leslie Handler)
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Health

Insurance companies are part of the opioid addiction problem

At first, I just felt very anxious, but anxiety soon led to physical shaking. My stomach felt like someone who weighed 300 pounds was sta ...

8 years ago

Down the Shore
Courts & Law

Cops revive driver with Narcan after chain reaction collision at the Shore

A 26-year old Cape May County man is facing a variety of charges after police say they had to revive him from an apparent drug overdose a ...

8 years ago

Debbie Holbrook has been a sexual assault nurse examiner for 20 years. (Kevin Parks/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

The health care shortage that impacts victims of sexual assault

Some rape victims have to travel hours to get an exam from a nurse with special training and forensic expertise. Debbie Holbrook s ...

8 years ago

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