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Radio Times
Courts & Law

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

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Vashti DuBois stands over her bed. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Reclaiming 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

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Zach Goldberg listens to Harry Potter on tape to fall asleep. (Andrew Stelzer/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Sleep 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

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Mitch McConnell
Radio Times
Money

Dissecting 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

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 Protesters in Los Angeles in march demonstrate against the American Health Care Act, which the White House hopes will replace Obamacare. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file
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Health

The 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

 After the night shift in the ER, Dr. Dorian Jacobs spends time with her toddler and dog before heading to sleep. (Jessica Kourkounis/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

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 ...

9 years ago

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kids jumping
Radio Times

“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

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a discarded syringe
Radio Times
Courts & Law

The 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

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Ody, from Indonesia, is losing his sight because of diabetes and is caught in a vicious cycle. He cannot work because of his blindness and can't afford the medical care that would restore his sight.
Courts & Law

Ody: Returning to Indonesia 15 years later, and nearly blind

“Life, unauthorized” is a series from WHYY/NewsWorks that looks at the personal ...

9 years ago

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 The author is shown with her son, Kent. (Courtesy of Joyanna Wentzel)
Speak Easy
Health

A 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 ...

9 years ago

 Alex Spencer sits at his table making phone calls to be a test subject for new studies. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

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 ...

9 years ago

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a teenager sits alone
Radio Times

How to talk about teen suicide

Guests: Guy Diamond, Carolina Hausmann-Stabile, Matthew Wintersteen The controversial Netflix series, 13 Reas ...

Air Date: May 8, 2017

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Amos Ben-Yaacov, 1 day old
Speak Easy
Health

A 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.

9 years ago

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, file photo, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie holds a 49-day-old baby boy being treated for neonatal drug withdrawal after his mother took opioids during pregnancy, at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune Township, N.J. (Mel Evans/AP Photo)
Health

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 ...

9 years ago

 Students and faculty from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy answer questions about filling orders for Naloxone from David Ostrow at Cambria Pharmacy in Fairhill. (Joel Wolfram/for NewsWorks)
Health

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 ...

9 years ago

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