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Surviving a rare disease gives chaplain a unique outlook on life
In this week’s Patient Files, pastor Stephen Weisser talks about beating the odds to survive a rare chronic disease. ...
11 years ago
ListenIs gluten sensitivity fact or fiction?
Australian researcher Peter Gibson recently conducted a study, which seemingly contradicts his own earlier research that found gluten to ...
11 years ago
ListenTalking zoonoses with Philadelphia’s Public Health Nerd Club
A look at how infections can leap from animals to people and how public health officials prepare for the next possible pandemic. ...
11 years ago
ListenA little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits by doctors back into the medical mainstream. A long ...
11 years ago
ListenHow one breast oncologist faced her own diagnosis
Dr. Marisa Weiss had been treating breast cancer for over 20 years when she got her own breast cancer diagnosis four years ago. ...
11 years ago
Listen‘Her work was a festival of beauty, and of bones.’
Poet and novelist Maya Angelou died today at the age of 86. Temple professor emerita and former Philadelphia poet laureate Sonia Sanchez ...
11 years ago
ListenSuit alleges retaliation for not signing Christie nominating petition
Allegations of political retaliation in a lawsuit filed by a New Jersey state trooper for some summon comparisons to the continuing Bridg ...
11 years ago
ListenSouth Jersey coastal towns try to put Sandy in rearview mirror [photos]
This weekend begins the second summer season since Superstorm Sandy. Unlike in northern ends of the shore, the devastating storm is ...
11 years ago
ListenReporter’s Roundtable: Wolf wins, same sex marriage is legal in Pa.
NewsWorks Tonight Guest Host Brad Linder recaps the week’s big stories with WHYY’s Holly Otterbein and Emma Jacobs. Tw ...
11 years ago
ListenArt of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Stephen Starr Events has helped the Philadelphia Museum of Art make Korean culture ...
11 years ago
New book by student journalists celebrates community health leaders
On Tuesday night, elementary and middle school student authors had a book launch for their 2014 publication Leading Healthy Change in ...
11 years ago
More support for training in the skilled trades, says U.S. labor secretary
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez expanded upon President Obama’s call ...
11 years ago
ListenDespite beautiful weather, a typically sleepy Pennsylvania primary
NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller gets perspective on problems at polling places and voter turnout with Zach Stalberg, President and CEO ...
11 years ago
ListenLower profile races in Pennsylvania still hold plenty of intrigue
While much of the early focus in this year’s Pennsylvania primary election has been on the governor’s race ad congressional c ...
11 years ago
ListenOn eve of ticket-fixing trial, more reforms for Philly traffic court
Jury selection is scheduled to start this week in the corruption trial of six former Philadelphia Traffic Court Judges for the ticket-fix ...
11 years ago