Medicine
Gun violence and children; gun shops and suicide prevention
Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are sta ...
Air Date: July 6, 2017
Listen 00:49:01Reclaiming a good night’s sleep after trauma-induced insomnia
A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...
8 years ago
Listen 3:52Sleep is the new skinny — with a booming industry to help us get rest
We’re paying millions for plush mattresses and gee whiz gadgets — but a little “sleep hygiene̶ ...
8 years ago
Listen 6:47Dissecting the Senate health care plan
Guests: Margot Sanger-Katz, Julie Rovner, Ralph Muller The Senate released their health care plan to repeal and r ...
Air Date: June 26, 2017
Listen 00:50:44The dangers of replacing Obamacare with the Republican health care bill
How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...
8 years ago
A night shift doctor’s quest for daytime shuteye
After working overnight, an ER doctor does her best to sleep during the sunniest hours. While Dorian Jacobs’ husband and tod ...
8 years ago
Listen“Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World”
Guest: Mitch Prinstein Most of us have some painful memories from our school days – maybe we were always the la ...
Air Date: June 12, 2017
Listen 00:49:00The gray area of drug recovery homes
Many recovery homes in Philadelphia are not licensed, unregulated and are illegally receiving thousands of dollars per month from drug tr ...
Air Date: June 8, 2017
Listen 00:49:00Ody: Returning to Indonesia 15 years later, and nearly blind
“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...
8 years ago
Listen 4:51A precarious 101 days for a premature baby
When I went to the doctor on a cold November evening to find out whether I was having a boy or a girl, the last thing I was expecting to ...
8 years ago
This research subject calls himself a ‘professional guinea pig’
Alex Spencer has earned thousands of dollars as a research subject. “That vein right here on the left side of my left arm ha ...
8 years ago
ListenHow to talk about teen suicide
Guests: Guy Diamond, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Matthew Wintersteen The controversial Netflix series, 13 Reas ...
Air Date: May 8, 2017
Listen 00:49:28A newborn boy with a genetic heart condition; a father’s joy and dread
On Aug. 10, 2016, less than one month before my wife Kate was due to give birth to our second child, she and I received news that would change our lives forever.
8 years ago
ListenChristie: 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
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
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