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Fighting Chance hopes to provide communities with kits that will assist in helping victims staunch bleeding in the event of traumas. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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In Philadelphia, bystander first aid turns everyday citizens into first responders

In Philadelphia, it’s gun violence that makes first aid skills so necessary for ordinary residents. After the Paris bombings ...

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Irene Hurford and Oberon Wackwitz in front of a wall that reads
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Keeping lives on track through early psychosis intervention

Oberon Wackwitz has a boyish face and easy smile, he’s a sharp dresser. He’s 20 years old, and in college. With his friendly, ...

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Friday Arts
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Astral Artists, Le Cirque Chef Alumni Dinner, and illustrator Allen Crawford

Astral Artists Produced by Karen Smyles Astral Artists was founded in 1992 by Vera Wilson and is a non-pro ...

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Suburban poverty growing in America, overtaking cities

Most Americans tend to think poverty is concentrated in urban areas, but a look at the numbers offers a rebuttal to that conventional not ...

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Philadelphia ‘learning how to be a growth city’

Saying we’re past the time when we can rely on a rising tide to lift all boats, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is prioritizing an in ...

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Touch author David Linden. (Courtesy of David Linden)
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Author says touch is about hand, heart and mind

Why does it feel good when your sweetheart’s hand brushes your arm?  “If you were to follow the touch sensation i ...

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Paul Offit heads the division of infectious diseases at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

When doctors become detectives in situations of uncertainty

What do horses and zebras have to do with making patient care decisions?  In the practice of medicine, one of the greatest ch ...

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Cardinal Peter Turkson
NewsWorks Tonight

Cardinal Peter Turkson is Vatican point man on climate change

The Vatican continues to draw attention to problems associated with climate change.  Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana helped t ...

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump beams as he stands with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the governor endorses the billionaire in his bid to be president. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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What’s Christie’s reward for trumpeting Trump?

Four days out from the Super Tuesday presidential primary elections, Republican front-runner Donald Trump looks to lock in his advantage ...

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Poet Margherita Sarrocchi and astronomer Galileo Galilei conducted a correspondence at the center of the Scientific Revolution of the Renaissance.
The Pulse

First female epic poet, forgotten voice of the Renaissance and Galileo’s pen pal

Four hundred years ago today, the Catholic Church tried to silence Galileo, ending a period of thriving scientific and literary deba ...

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What’s the right kind of rehabilitation, after addiction?

The concept of “rehab” tends to make us think of a place where drug addicts go away for weeks or months at a time to recover. ...

10 years ago

Friday Arts
Arts & Entertainment

More Than Prints

Produced by Michael O’Reilly The Print Center of Philadelphia is celebr ...

10 years ago

Presidential historian David Greenberg of Rutgers University discusses his new book
NewsWorks Tonight

The sport and spin of presidential politicking

Pennsylvania and Delaware voters go to the polls April 26. Garden State residents wait until June 7 to weigh in on the presidentia ...

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Thomas McLellan was briefly the deputy drug czar for the Obama administration. (Courtesy of Thomas McLellan)
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Over time, watching the perception of addiction treatment change

With the country in the throes of a heroin epidemic, politicians on both sides are talking about the importance of addiction treatment, a ...

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Police Chief Chip Dodge riding in his cruiser. (Karen Brown/for WHYY)
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More police departments offering help, not jail, to addicts

Last year, the police chief of Gloucester, Massachusetts, made an unusual offer on his department’s Facebook page. Heroin addicts w ...

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