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Could precision medicine advance the goals of racial equality?
One of the leaders of President Obama’s precision medicine initiative thinks so. Eight-year-old Denaeyah Smith reads o ...
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ListenTeaching healthier lifestyle skills to turn the tide on diabetes
Diabetes often requires medication and serious lifestyle changes to manage, and making those changes usually takes support and education. ...
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ListenHow 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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ListenA 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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ListenKinky Friedman gets back into the recording saddle again
Kinky Friedman, singer-songwriter, satirist, author, journalist, Texas politician, and animal welfare activist, is touring the East Coast ...
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ListenUpper Dublin dad reprimanded for picking up daughters on riding mower
Montgomery County dad Christopher Malloy wanted to give his three young daughters a memorable experience last week, so he hitched a coupl ...
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ListenFewer black men applied to medical school in 2014 than 1978
Turns out, doctors who look like us tend to help keep us healthier. So what does it mean when a particular racial segment of society prod ...
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ListenTaking 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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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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ListenPa. Supreme Court can’t stay out of the headlines — here’s another one
The Philadelphia mayor’s race is the one getting all the attention in the region, but the biggest race no one is watching is the contes ...
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ListenWhat medicine could learn from Facebook stalking you
If you look at your social media feeds, how many of your friends are quite forthcoming about their aches and pains, and experiences with ...
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ListenProducer’s Cut: Outdoor Stories
Friday Arts goes outdoors with Diner en Blanc, an Invisible River performance, and Museum Without Walls. ...
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ART OF FOOD – PRODUCED BY MONICA ROGOZINSKI Jazz Age on the Delaware is the first annual event that takes place a ...
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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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ListenWhy some women don’t like the term breast cancer ‘survivor’
As the world around us turns pink in October, thousands of people will take to the streets to raise money, to urge women to get mammogram ...
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