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What Happened to My School?
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Gabe Terracciano woke up one morning to find King Middle, his former school, the object of national scrutiny over a controversial birth control po...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2007
  • Length: 06:40
Housing the Homeless
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Ed Paige had been homeless for twenty years. But now, thanks to an innovative housing facility in Portland Maine, Ed finally has a stable place to ...

Bought by WMPG and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
Women Rising XV: World Health Activists
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In this program, we profile two activists, Prudence Mabele and Mary Pipher facing two of the most difficult health and human rights issues of our t...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
STUMP
From: Dina Weinstein
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Candidate Allyson Schwartz woos elderly Hispanic voters

  • Added: Nov 21, 2007
  • Length: 03:28
Steroids in Track and Field
From: KLCC
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The impact of steroids in track and field

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 20, 2007
  • Length: 07:28
  • Purchases: 1
Sex Toy Safety
From: The Environment Report
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Some sex toy retailers are concerned about chemicals used to make the toys.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 25, 2007
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
Quest_Farm Bill and School Lunches
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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What will it take to get healthy meals in School cafeterias? For starters, a new national farm policy.

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Elderly and gambling
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Retirees move to Las Vegas and become addicted to gambling

  • Added: Aug 28, 2007
  • Length: 05:15
Quest_Longevity
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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The quest to extend lifespan, and ''healthspan'' to 100 years and beyond.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2007
  • Length: 05:46
For Rural Communities, Health Care Access Means More than Insurance
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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A visit to a clinic in rural central Oregon to find out what it?s like to stay healthy when your neighbors are sagebrush and jackrabbits

Bought by KRZA and KVMR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 2
Influence and the Food Pyramid
From: The Environment Report
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Critics say the Food Pyramid is influenced by food industry.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2007
  • Length: 04:22
Prescription: Enviro-Knowledge for Doctors
From: The Environment Report
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Doctors short on knowledge about environmental exposures and disease.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Asian American Women and Suicide
From: Robynn Takayama
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This piece explores the high rate of suicide amongst Asian American women

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 1
Veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
From: KLCC
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Veterans and PTSD

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:10
  • Purchases: 1
Mental Well Being
From: KLCC
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Pro-active approaches to mental well being

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPVL, and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:40
  • Purchases: 3
Teen Suicide
From: KLCC
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Preventing Youth Suicide

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KSFR


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
Children and Mental Health
From: KLCC
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Treating children with mental health disorders

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Mental Health Nurse Practitioners
From: KLCC
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Rural mental health care

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2
Good Fish, Bad Fish
From: The Environment Report
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Fish is good for you. Fish is bad for you. What's a consumer to do?

Bought by KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Apr 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 3
Kentucky's "Troublesome Creek."
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Mining in Eastern Kentucky dries up water supply

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 12, 2007
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 1
School Nutrition
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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This piece explores the much lamented arena of every school cafeteria, school lunch.

Bought by WXLV-FM, SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jan 16, 2007
  • Length: 06:42
  • Purchases: 3
Health workers reach remote villagers in Ethiopia with tetanus vaccine
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! UNICEF's Andrew Heavens reports on the delivery of tetanus vaccine to remote tribal villages in Ethiopia

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
Can Your Lunch Kill You?
From: Tanya Ott
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Mad Cow. Avian Flu. Mercury-contaminated fish. Every day there seems to be a new threat to the U-S food supply. But how real is the risk and are co...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 08, 2006
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Hair Cut Check Up
From: Tanya Ott
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African American women die of breast cancer at much higher rates than other women, but a unique program is turning African American hair dressers i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 06, 2006
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 3