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Sickle cell disease still persists 100 years after discovery
A look at sickle cell disease and why there aren’t more promising options for treatment. Eight year old Nadir Tinsley is get ...
12 years ago
ListenUnderstanding male infertility and how it affects couples trying to get pregnant
Fertility experts like Dr. Liberty Barnes think gender has little role when problems getting pregnant arise. In the United States, ...
12 years ago
ListenTraining healthcare providers to ‘win the hearts and minds’ of veterans
Part of the VA system overhaul to address long patient wait times is to offer veterans more access to community-based primary care doctor ...
12 years ago
ListenPhiladelphia Woodworks carves out its niche [photos]
There’s nothing quite like the satisfaction of working with your hands. That’s what drove our guest on this week’s Reca ...
12 years ago
ListenTaking CO2 out of the atmosphere to make plastics
What if you could take carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere, and actually use it to make stuff? We meet one professor who is trying to do ...
12 years ago
ListenDebating wider participation in medical research
Author Ruha Benjamin says “the legacy of Tuskegee” is too often used as shorthand to refer to a perceived mistrust among blac ...
12 years ago
ListenThe dangers of swimming in Philadelphia’s creeks
A grieving Philadelphia mom wants to make sure everyone knows that swimming in the creeks isn’t just illegal — it’s dan ...
12 years ago
ListenThousand Cankers Disease prompts wood quarantine in Pa.
Caused by a fungus that’s transported by the walnut twig beetle, the disease attacks the innermost layer of a tree’s bark, ca ...
12 years ago
ListenArt — Produced by Michael O’Reilly In 2013, after 99 years, Germantown High School closed its doors forever. Budget c ...
12 years ago
Philly struts its stuff to woo the 2016 Democratic convention
More than a dozen officials from the Democratic National Committee came to Philadelphia Wednesday to answer a big question: Does the city ...
12 years ago
ListenCould a North Jersey casino save Atlantic City?
With the announcement that Revel Casino will close next month, the future of Atlantic City’s gaming business remains murky. ...
12 years ago
ListenRevel casino will close Sept. 10, leaving 3,100 out of work
Atlantic City’s newest casino will be closing next month after the financially struggling Revel Casino Hotel has not been able to f ...
12 years ago
ListenSandy Hook parents promote mental health measure amid federal impasse
Dylan Hockley was just 6 when he and 25 others were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012. His mother, Nicole Ho ...
12 years ago
ListenArt of Life — Produced by Karen Smyles Margaux and Walter Kent are married and both artists. Margaux is a photographer, makes ...
12 years ago
A million-dollar program to help control Philadelphia’s cat population
Individually, a playful kitten or a purring cat is adorable, but at Philadelphia’s Animal Care and Control Team, 20,000 of them pas ...
12 years ago
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