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Cigarette? Try The Candy Aisle
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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The 1998 "Master Settlement Agreement" was supposed to stop cigarette companies from marketing to kids. So why are those Marlboros right next to th...

Bought by WXLV-FM and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Mar 29, 2007
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 2
More Poison, Says Bush
From: Dick Meister
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A commentary on the Bush administration's successful attempt to allow U.S. growers to continue using methyl bromide, the highly toxic pesticide ban...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 02:54
CL 2006 Mel Levine,MD "Helping a mind become defined."
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Dr.Mel Levine examines the many ways children learn.

Bought by KMXT, Interlochen Public Radio, and AIFM


  • Added: Sep 20, 2006
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Detoxification
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Health educator Layna Berman discusses the body's natural detoxification pathways and how to boost them using nutrients.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2006
  • Length: 58:30
Heart Surgery Dangers
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Non-invasive cardiologist Howard Wayne, MD discusses the dangers of angioplasty, bypass surgery, and stents to treat heart disease.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2006
  • Length: 58:40
Single Payer Health Insurance
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Bree Johnston, MD physician-spokesperson from the group Physicians for a National Health Program discusses single payer health insurance systems

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Sep 05, 2006
  • Length: 57:27
  • Purchases: 1
Body Pain
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Health educator Layna Berman discusses underconsidered reasons for bodywide pain including unresolved infections, hormone imbalances, allergies, an...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2006
  • Length: 58:55
Smoking: The Truth
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Stan Glantz, MD professor of medicine at UC San Francisco and an anti-tobacco activist unpacks the science behind smoking's dangers and overweight'...

Bought by WNED Buffalo and AIFM


  • Added: Aug 22, 2006
  • Length: 59:19
  • Purchases: 2
Douglas Webb, AIDS advisor in Africa reports on orphans and vulnerable children
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! UNICEF's AIDS Advisor on Eastern and Southern Africa, Douglas Webb, gives a full report on UNICEF's new publication on Orphans ...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
Turning Health People Into Patients
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Medical writer Roy Moynihan, co-author with Alan Cassels of Selling Sickness, discusses how medical institutions have invented diseases under the g...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 1
Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Health educator Layna Berman discusses nutrient-based therapies and new laboratory testing for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2006
  • Length: 57:51
  • Purchases: 1
Playing "Advergames" with Kids' Health
From: Dick Meister
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This is a commentary noting that the Internet has become a major tool for selling easily exploited kids the junk food that has helped make childhoo...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:11
Digestive Wellness for Children
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Nutritionist Elizabeth Lipski, PhD discusses her new book Digestive Wellness for Children about preventing and healing digestive disorders in child...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 25, 2006
  • Length: 57:37
  • Purchases: 1
Martin Bell's Democratic Republic of Congo Child Alert
From: UNICEF
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This Story is free! Ex-BBC War Correspondent Martin Bell gives a report on Dr Congo and the affects of war, disease and hunger on children there

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 24, 2006
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
Dietary Fat is Good for You
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Sally Fallon, executive director of the Weston A. Price Foundation discusses the science of dietary fat.

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 18, 2006
  • Length: 58:39
  • Purchases: 1
EMF Health News
From: Your Own Health and Fitness
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Louis Slesin, publisher of Microwave News, discusses current developments in industry and science concerning the health effects of non-ionizing rad...

Bought by AIFM


  • Added: Jul 12, 2006
  • Length: 59:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Aging Eye
From: Ron Kauffman
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Marc Winnick, MD talks about the recent medical advances in senior eye care

  • Added: Apr 30, 2006
  • Length: 39:36
Birthdays, Volunteering, Defining Age
From: Ron Kauffman
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Senior LifeStyles Update - 3 short segments

  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 07:59
Diagnosing Dementia
From: Ron Kauffman
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Neurologist Dr. Murray Todd talks about Diagnosing Dementia

  • Added: Apr 27, 2006
  • Length: 37:56
Mental Health Continuum of Care
From: Miles Eddy
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Community mental health centers often serve those who are most in need, but what happens to people diagnosed with mental illness on the higher end ...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Feb 18, 2006
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 1
Romance the Joy of Words
From: Ellen Weber
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Your brain uses your words to build or break your day

  • Added: Nov 27, 2005
  • Length: 02:36
Ever Consider Mental Reinvention As a Way of Life?
From: Ellen Weber
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You can grow more intelligence at pretty much any age.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: 09:45
A Menace As Great -- or Greater -- Than Steroids
From: Dick Meister
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Smokeless tobacco is threatening the health of major league baseball players and millions of others.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
Nip and Tuck, Stretch Your Luck
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Even with today's plastic surgery technology, beauty is still only "skin deep."

  • Added: Oct 19, 2004
  • Length: 03:39
Ect + Vns = Tlc
From: Carl Hammerschlag
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Strengthening your Body's Signals

  • Added: Oct 18, 2004
  • Length: 03:58