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Looking back over the Ramsey years
WHYY’s Bobby Allyn sat down with Philadelphia Daily News crime reporter David Gambacorta to talk about what made Ramsey a remarkable to ...
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Penn prof explores epic history of modern Africa in documentary ‘African Independence’
NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller talks with filmmaker and author Tufuku Zuberi, professor of race relations, sociology and Africana stu ...
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Not your father’s Band-Aid: The quest for smarter bandages
Nanotechnology is producing an all-in-one first aid kit. For the past 95 years, Band-Aids have been the go-to treatment for ...
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Producer’s Cut: Family Affairs
Friday Arts makes it a family affair with The West Philly Wyeths, The Dufala Brothers, and John and Kyra’s Chocolate. ...
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Russ McKinney & The Village of Arden
ART OF LIFE – PRODUCED BY KAREN SMYLES The Village of Arden was founded in 1900 by a group of early residents inte ...
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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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Teaching 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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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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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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Kinky 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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Upper 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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Fewer 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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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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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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Pa. 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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