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Artificial pancreas could mean “freedom” for diabetic patients
For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care. About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...
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ListenEAT Café: Everyone at the Table
Segment: EAT Café: Everyone at the Table Producer: Monica Rogozinski The EAT Café is Philadelphia ...
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Synchronized defense: How animals move as one to avoid predators
When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.
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Listen 5:49New procedure leads to miraculous recoveries in stroke patients
On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...
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Listen 8:09How electroconvulsive therapy’s troubled past has colored its modern use
Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...
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Listen 12:05Everything happens for a reason: How this doctor became a patient
With one phone call, Navin Vij went from seeing himself as a doctor to seeing himself as a patient. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, an ...
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ListenLet him eat cake: Reframing life after a suicide attempt
Michael Bohannan-Calloway was diagnosed with cancer in January 2010. Doctors told him it was treatable but incurable. Looking for guidanc ...
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ListenFar in the future, Shakespeare still plays a part in Philly production
In the theater world, there are playwrights who script their works — and there’s also improvisation, where actors create action a ...
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ListenListening to the brain to reveal damage and disease
Researchers are studying the way the brain processes sound to better understand – possibly even diagnose – concussions. ...
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Listen 6:25The dirty lives of Pittsburgh’s sewer cleanup crew
During heavy storms, the city’s backup sewer system dumps raw sewage into local rivers to prevent basement floods and sludge in the ...
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ListenEAT Café: Everyone at the Table, Paul Santoleri AKA Pawzant, Karen Singer Tileworks
EAT Café: Everyone at the Table Producer: Monica Rogozinski The EAT Café is Philadelphia’s first ...
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The many options of choosing half of your future child’s genes
The list for parents to choose from can include smarts, looks, college major.. even pet preferences and zodiac signs. Rache ...
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ListenGenomics leads chocolate farmers to hardy plants faster
Growing cacao is difficult but scientists are trying out ways to make the process more efficient. Robert Campbell makes chocolate ...
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ListenPhiladelphia School of Circus Arts
Philadelphia School of Circus Arts Producer: Karen Smyles Philadelphia School of Circus Arts is the region& ...
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Mexico and U.S. make big plan to save tiny porpoise from extinction
The population of an adorable porpoise called the vaquita has fallen below 60. Scientists, the governments of two countries, and military ...
9 years ago
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