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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.
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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Teaching healthier lifestyle skills to turn the tide on diabetes

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How doctors get patients to adhere to their advice

You go to the doctor, and he or she tells you what to do to best treat your ailment. When you go to the pharmacy to pick up your medicati ...

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Naomi Coulter
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A hospital with no beds: the world’s first telemedicine center

Dr. Vinaya Sermadevi sits in front of six screens at a call center in St. Louis, directing a nurse through a video conferencing system.&n ...

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Jeffrey Okonye and Oviea Akpotaire are fourth-year medical students at UT Southwestern. (Lauren Silverman/KERA)
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Fewer black men applied to medical school in 2014 than 1978

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Scene believed to be a re-enactment of the demonstration of ether anesthesia by W.T.G. Morton on October 16
The Pulse

Taking the pain out of surgery

Every day, the same scene plays out in thousands of hospitals around the world. A patient is wheeled into an operating room and prepped f ...

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The Lizard Tail plant was used by Cajuns and Creoles as an anti-inflammatory. (Larry Allain/US Geological Survey's National Wetlands Research Center)
The Pulse

Harnessing folk remedies to improve modern medication

Researchers are studying Cajun and Creole folk medicine to see if it could be used in modern medicine, which begs the question — can me ...

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Emergency physician and researcher Raina Merchant heads University of Pennsylvania's social media and health innovation lab. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

What medicine could learn from Facebook stalking you

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Producer’s Cut: Outdoor Stories

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Looking for technological solutions to gun violence

With policy makers at a stalemate over how to keep Americans safer from gun violence, entrepreneurs try their hand at a fix. Omer ...

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Why some women don’t like the term breast cancer ‘survivor’

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