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When an M.D. is not enough, add an MBA
The rise of the business-savvy doctor. For some, it’s a hedge against an uncertain healthcare landscape. For others further ...
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ListenPhilly Tech Week kicks off with Arcade @ Dilworth
Philly Tech Week — actually nine days of events throughout the region — kicks off Friday. The opening event is Arcade @ Dilw ...
10 years ago
ListenA love of pro wrestling greater than the fear of cancer
Imagine you have one all-consuming passion in life. The thing you can’t live without. And suddenly, an illness threatens to take th ...
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ListenResearchers explore potential link between depression and inflammation
An ongoing study is finding that there may be a connection between depression and inflammation in the peripheral blood and the brain. ...
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ListenConference for people with cancer promises community
Making the most of a life interrupted by illness is the focus of the Cancervention Conference in Philadelphia. NewsWorks Tonight host Dav ...
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ListenHuman-scale stories on tackling climate change
For the 45th anniversary of Earth Day observations, Alex Chadwick, long-time public radio reporter and host of the podcast “Burn, A ...
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ListenPredicting the sick through personal trails of health data
How Independence Blue Cross is using algorithms to better target care. The first thing out of John Iovine’s mouth is a ...
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ListenAllora & Calzadilla: Concert for Elephants
Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly In the gallery at the Perelman B ...
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In 1781, just as colonial soldiers won the battle of Yorktown, which cinched American independence from the British, Thomas Jefferson too ...
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ListenBrontosaurus stages giant comeback
The Brontosaurus is back… and it’s the only dinosaur known to go extinct twice, if you will. The long-necked, lo ...
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ListenIn Adam Balkovic’s work, there’s never a dull moment
Adam Balkovic’s career as a knife maker started on a negative note when a respected friend told him nobody did that sort of thing. ...
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ListenFacilitating ‘courageous conversation’ to overcome bias
Leaders in West Chester will host the “Courageous Conversation Conference” at West Chester University April 18. The id ...
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ListenEntering adulthood with autism and not much else
A generation of autistic children have grown and entered adult life, but without the support they got as kids, what will their futures ho ...
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Listen10, 50, 100: Why do we find comfort in round numbers?
Numbers have mattered to humans since the earliest civilizations…but some have mattered more than others. There are certain ...
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ListenStudents waiting for change where the divestment movement was born
Swarthmore College may be the birthplace of the movement to strip fossil fuel company stocks from university investment portfolios, but s ...
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