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A quest for benefits over illness linked to former Naval Air Station in Willow Grove
Wade Woxland served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years, including more than three years at the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in ...
10 years ago
ListenBoyle introduces measures to protect endangered species
The recent shooting of a gorilla in a zoo in Cincinnati focused attention on endangered species and the loophole that allows them to come ...
10 years ago
ListenDoctors disagree about the ethics of treating friends and family
Friends do each other favors. And if your friend is a physician, that favor might be lending you medical expertise or a prescription pad. ...
10 years ago
ListenHow to get help when you don’t believe you need it
Just outside of New York City in a farmhouse in Bedford, New York, Katherine Flannery Dering is looking at photos of her brother, Paul. P ...
10 years ago
ListenAre good care and compassion lost in efforts to curb opioid prescriptions?
“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...
10 years ago
Listen 10:2850 years later, a letter reminds a doctor of the life he saved
When Michael LaCombe was training to be a doctor, he met a woman in the psychiatry ward on one of his rotations. He would sit and talk to ...
10 years ago
ListenOne woman, the feet of a gecko and a scientific breakthrough
These days, Tonia Hsieh is in charge of her own lab full of eager science students, but when she was an undergrad, she found herself delv ...
10 years ago
ListenWhen two minds meet: Beck and Seligman on life, research and aging
For more than a decade, Aaron Beck and Martin Seligman have been meeting in Beck’s high-rise apartment located right in the center ...
10 years ago
ListenThe science of an embrace: why does hugging feel so good?
We sent our least touchy-feely journalist to visit “The Hugging Saint”. When Amma comes to town, people line up—and ...
10 years ago
ListenRick Rothrock, FringeArts and the SS United States
Rick Rothrock: Carved In Stone Produced by Karen Smyles Rick Rothrock was born into a two-generation famil ...
10 years ago
WHYY’s The Pulse wins multiple national and local awards
WHYY’s health and science show, The Pulse, was recognized with two awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI). Th ...
10 years ago
The Age of Aquarius in Chester County
Produced by Karen Smyles The Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) inspires, informs, and builds community ident ...
10 years ago
The company is under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, largely due to reporting ...
10 years ago
ListenThe scientific breakthroughs behind modern fabric
From nylon to next-generation fabrics, the research lab always precedes the runway. For thousands of years, we humans donned ...
10 years ago
ListenWhy don’t young doctors want to work in primary care?
Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...
10 years ago
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