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Philadelphia campaigns: The week in review
NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller and WHYY’s Katie Colaneri track the endorsement chase in the Philadelphia mayor’s race. ...
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ListenHow to fill out WHYY’s Pricecheck form [video]
Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, offers a step-by-step video guide to filling out the price check form. ...
10 years ago
WHYY’s PriceCheck needs your help to crowdsource health costs
Haircuts. Houses. Plane tickets. Computers. Ever bought any of these things without knowing the price beforehand, and then just paid the ...
10 years ago
ListenNew Jersey Capital Philharmonic
Art of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles The New Jersey Capital Philharmonic was founded by Music Director, Daniel Spalding in S ...
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Obamacare on trial…again: King vs. Burwell
Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...
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ListenThe Philly dentist who helped fix Napoleon III’s bad tooth
How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...
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ListenThis med student scours cities (and their hospitals) for pianos
Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...
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ListenA cross-country flight quickly turns into a medical student’s worst nightmare. As the long Thanksgiving weekend of 2014 drew ...
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ListenMedical-device makers rally to repeal tax
Sales on medical widgets are helping to pay for the health law. Device makers say the tax is a job-killer. High on the to-do list ...
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ListenA look at the development of vitamins and our unabated obsession with them
What exactly is a vitamin? How many vitamins are out there? And why do we believe vitamins are so good for our health? In he ...
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ListenGrassROOTS aid for a Germantown school
DJ Rich Medina talks with Dr. James Peterson about his involvement with the GrassROOTS Community Foundation and its annual fundraiser, wh ...
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ListenIs your toaster making you fat?
Brian Wansink of Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab on helpful tips to reconfigure your kitchen and drop some pounds in the pr ...
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ListenThe health risks of high radon levels in your home
If there’s mold in the basement, that’s hard to ignore. When the roof leaks, you fix it. But a radon problem in your house is ...
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ListenSmithsonian recalls ‘the legend of Lead Belly’
The Smithsonian Institution has mined its archives to produce a television documentary ...
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ListenWorking from their couches, amateur astronomers make real scientific contributions
As data from large telescopes becomes more and more readily available to everyone, hobby astronomers are helping make true contributions ...
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