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Trading pill bottles for yoga mats doesn’t always fly with patients

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The Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (Courtesy of Wong-Baker) was developed in the pediatric hospital setting by a pediatric nurse consultant and a child life specialist 30 years ago in Oklahoma. Children helped design it
The Pulse

Reassessing the assessment of pain: how the numeric scale became so popular in health care

It’s an experience that most everyone has had at a doctor or hospital visit, where at some point, usually early on, the question ...

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 Talyah Basit attends the suicide-prevention conference at the War Memorial in Trenton. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse

After student suicides, medical schools look for changes

Following the death of her son, Michele Dietl remembers not being able to walk through the grocery store.  “I co ...

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Counter Culture Labs looks like what would happen if your high school science and art classes were held together in the same space. (Andrew Stelzer/for WHYY)
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Ragtag group of non-scientists tries to break up monopoly on insulin

Tired of paying too much for common prescription drugs? Ever wish you could just head into the kitchen and make medicine yourself? ...

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Kurt Fristrup
The Pulse

Looking for peace and quiet? There’s a map for that.

With fall on the horizon, maybe you’re hoping to find some peace and quiet in the great outdoors. Where you find it can be a challe ...

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Mohammed Nayeemudin is a internal medicine resident at Temple University in Philadelphia. (Courtesy of Mohammed Nayeemudin)
The Pulse

Doctor tells tale of losing a patient, and what Katy Perry had to do with it

Mohammed Nayeemudin was working in the ICU when he got a call from the emergency room — a 30 year old who had been found in his apartme ...

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Harry Levant (right) leaves court with his defense attorney Trevan Borum. (Bobby Allyn/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

After dodging jail in theft of $2M, lawyer back in court for lagging on restitution

When a botched medical procedure left Donna Johnson a double amputee, she sold her three-story brick home in Philadelphia and bought a mo ...

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Carl Van Horn
NewsWorks Tonight

Rutgers survey: Americans finally have confidence in the job market

Recent national survey results offer optimism regarding American attitudes about the job market. Carl Van Horn, professor of publi ...

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Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

Steve McCurry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic; The Privy Diggers; Heyne Bogut

Steve McCurry: Unguarded, Untold, Iconic Producer: Karen Smyles Friday Arts goes to the Mich ...

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A patient gets a blood test. (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
The Pulse

If a patient doesn’t get a test, does it make a sound?

What responsibility do doctors have for following up on tests they order? I recently went to see a specialist who ruled out a heal ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

Fines keep some kids in virtual debtor’s prison, Juvenile Law Center finds

One million kids are arrested in the United States every year. Families who can afford the associated court fees and fines have a reasona ...

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(Chemical Heritage Foundation)
NewsWorks Tonight

Making music with old technology

The streets of Old City will come alive with sound in the form of “Chiptunes — Obsolete Sounds in the Modern World” during ...

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Sara Garonzik will be stepping down from her longtime role as executive producing director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight

Barrymore lifetime achievement winner stepping down from Philadelphia Theatre Company

Sara Garonzik, who’s led the Philadelphia Theatre Company for 35 years, will receive a lifetime achievement Barrymore Award in Octo ...

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Maiken Scott interviews science writer Ed Yong at the Smithsonian's National Zoo. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
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Science

A trip to the zoo with Ed Yong reveals an entire invisible world

Atlantic science writer Ed Yong can’t look at an eleph ...

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 A small patient at a cancer ward in Kenya watches as clowns perform a sketch. (Brenna Daldorph/for WHYY)
The Pulse

Clowns are the saddest people of all: bringing smiles to a pediatric ward in Kenya

It’s 10 a.m. on a chilly morning in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and the corridors of Kenyatta National Hospital are already bust ...

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