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Trading pill bottles for yoga mats doesn’t always fly with patients
The way physicians assess and treat pain has come under scrutiny recently, as the country continues to experience an epidemic of opioid a ...
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ListenReassessing 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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ListenAfter 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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ListenRagtag 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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ListenLooking 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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ListenDoctor 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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ListenAfter 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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ListenRutgers 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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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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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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ListenFines 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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ListenMaking 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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ListenBarrymore 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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ListenA 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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ListenClowns 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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