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Do we need a new Constitutional Convention?
Partisan bickering in Washington has died down for the holiday season, but you can expect it to pick right up in the new year. Muc ...
12 years ago
ListenInside the world of medical illustration with Mt. Airy artist Birck Cox
We visit a medical illustrator’s studio, where boxes of bones, skulls and anatomy textbooks come to life through paint strokes and ...
12 years ago
ListenThe woman behind Delaware’s changing Medicare law
How one woman played a key role in changing Delaware law to offer supplemental Medigap premiums to people with disabilities under the age ...
12 years ago
ListenThe year’s most inspirational science stories: Myriad genetics ruling, CRISPR and brain funding
Kerry Grens, an associate editor at The Scientist, joins The Pulse regularly for updates on the latest developments in science. Th ...
12 years ago
ListenReporter’s Roundtable: Following up on Act 13 ruling, and the charter school verdict that wasn’t
NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller speaks with State Impact Pennsylvania’s Katie Colaneri for more details on yesterday’s ...
12 years ago
ListenBy the numbers: HIV/AIDS stigma changing, but infection still spreads
Much headway has been made in HIV treatment, with far fewer AIDS deaths today than 20 years ago, when the film “Philadelphia” ...
12 years ago
Two decades ago, Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ prompted changing attitudes toward HIV-AIDS
An in-depth look at the making of the film, its impact, and the distance traveled in fighting HIV and AIDS. Twenty years ago this ...
12 years ago
Listen 23:35Are the health benefits of a gluten-free diet fact or fad?
Dr. Stephanie Moleski, a gasteroenterologist at Jefferson Hospital, gives her take on gluten sensitivity. As a gasteroentero ...
12 years ago
ListenArt of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski This month Art of Food takes a trip outside the city to visit ...
12 years ago
New South Broad tower is one of only a few recent skyscrapers
Liberty Place’s completion in 1987 broke a longstanding gentleman’s agreement to cap the height of new construction at 548 fe ...
12 years ago
ListenGoing gluten-free is bad enough; try explaining it to your Italian grandma
In this Patient File, Valerie DiMambro talks about the year she got divorced, found bed bugs and got diagnosed with celiac disease. ...
12 years ago
ListenGosnell trial helped fuel legislative backlash against abortion
West Philadelphia Doctor Kermit Gosnell’s conviction on distributing pain killers resulted in a 30 year long term to run concurrent ...
12 years ago
ListenWhat’s eating our evergreen trees?
Local evergreens have a tiny enemy in the wild, and researchers are enlisting citizen scientists to battle the bugs. The balsam fi ...
12 years ago
ListenHow did birth move from the home to the hospital, and back again?
Margaret Marsh, professor of history at Rutgers University takes us through the timeline of home birth. ...
12 years ago
ListenGallup: Polls show Democrats have the edge in favorability ratings
Now that the dust is settling a bit over the government shutdown and the healthcare exchanges, we touch base with Frank Newport, editor i ...
12 years ago
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