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New health insurance options present immigrants with opportunities, challenges
Many recent immigrants in Philadelphia, who are signed up for health insurance through the ACA, now face special hurdles in using that ne ...
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ListenSunday Suppers Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Sunday Suppers, a community outreach program started by So ...
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As bikers tackle Manayunk Wall, longtime booster helps them ‘pump it up’
On Sunday, nearly 300 cyclists from across the globe will pedal through Philly during the Parx Casino Philly Cycling Classic. And as he ...
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ListenGMOs aren’t the Frankensteinian monsters they’ve been accused of being. In fact, they may be crucial to feeding the skyrocket ...
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ListenSS United States Conservancy hopes investors give propeller a whirl [photos]
Looking for a Father’s Day gift for that hard to shop for boat enthusiast? How about getting him a 60,000-pound propeller? ...
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ListenVirgin Galactic shoots for 2015 commercial flight launch
Would you pay $250,000 for a suborbital ride through space? That’s how much tickets are selling for aboard Virgin Galactic ...
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ListenSurviving 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. ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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ListenA little-known corner of the Affordable Care Act could usher home visits by doctors back into the medical mainstream. A long ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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