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Looking at the roots of hypersegregation in Philadelphia
Philadelphia is a city of evolving neighborhoods. What some of those sections evolved from is the topic taken up in “R ...
9 years ago
ListenThe story of two women who found out they were identical strangers
What is it that makes us…us? DNA or life experience? Genes or environment? Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein sh ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat it’s like to relearn to hear through cochlear implants
Rob Jefferson started losing his hearing when he was in his late teens. Sensorineural hearing loss, a progressive degenerative con ...
9 years ago
ListenObama’s ‘more perfect union,’ eight years later
“Race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now.” Then-presidential candidate Barack Ob ...
9 years ago
ListenProduced by Michael O’Reilly In 2014, the book ...
9 years ago
Where medicine and literature overlap, the excellence of both professions is at play
The British Medical Journal lists more than 40 physicians who became notable authors. They include Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Conan Doy ...
9 years ago
Creating healthy communities using restorative justice
Reforming the United States criminal justice system is the rare topic that enjoys bipartisan support. However, there is a wide range of i ...
9 years ago
ListenA kidney donation, with an assist from above
Did a religious epiphany save Terry Sukeena’s life? When he was 46 years old, Terry Sukeena had the first major health scare ...
9 years ago
ListenHow do caregivers learn skills to keep a loved one safe at home?
Dementia has been slowly stealing Ruth Perez’s memory and thinking ability for 20 years. “She would put food together ...
9 years ago
ListenHealthcare fades into the background of 2016 election cycle
With Obamacare battles largely behind us, presidential candidates in 2016 seem focused on other issues. Healthcare played starring ...
9 years ago
ListenBurning psychiatry’s bible: A new framework for diagnosing mental illness
The National Institute of Mental Health is searching for a new director who will inherit a battle over how we think about afflictions of ...
9 years ago
ListenJoe Sestak seeking rematch with Pat Toomey for Senate seat
When the late U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter switched his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat six years ago, former Congressman Joe Se ...
9 years ago
ListenRecreating Rutgers tomato took some sleuthing
A few weeks ago, we heard from listeners whose curiosity and appetite were piqued by a story we aired about limited seed availability for ...
9 years ago
ListenCelebrating the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day without the spirits [audio]
No need to wait until March 17 to wear green ribbons and shamrocks. The Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade kicks off Sunday, Mar ...
9 years ago
ListenProduced by Karen Smyles Astral Artists was founded in 1992 by Vera Wilson and is a non-profit organization that pl ...
9 years ago