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Stress and How We Deal
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Teens and stress are a pretty common combination, Erin finds out how their schedules are adding to this.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KOOP, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 02, 2007
  • Length: 06:13
  • Purchases: 3
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
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
Rent-A-Pet
From: Adam Allington
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Who wants a three-legged one-eyed pittbull mix?

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WFIU, and KZSC


  • Added: Mar 05, 2007
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 4
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
World AIDS Day: Kenyan Children
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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The lives of Kenyan Children not improving despite progress in fighting AIDS in Kenya

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX and WSCS-FM


  • Added: Nov 28, 2006
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Paying for Organs?
From: Tanya Ott
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People die every day because of organ shortages, but a group of medical, legal, economics and ethics specialists propose a controversial system tha...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Music Therapy for Children
From: Tanya Ott
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Music Therapy for premature infants and other kids with disabilities

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 15, 2006
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 1
ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH IN COLORADO
From: KRCC-FM
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Last weekend the state Alzheimer?s association held three so-called ?Memory Walks? in Denver, Loveland and Greeley to raise money for research.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:37
NEWSCAST: BIG PHARMA OFFERS CHEAP DRUGS - NAVAJOS MARCH TO PROTEST RACISM
From: KRCC-FM
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Too "rich" for Medicaid but still can?t afford your prescriptions? - Native Americans protest recent racial violence

  • Added: Sep 08, 2006
  • Length: 05:31
BIRD FLU - THE THREAT TO COMMERCIAL POULTRY
From: KRCC-FM
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People who raise birds commercially are keeping a close eye on brid flu

  • Added: Aug 23, 2006
  • Length: 05:38
TASK FORCE SAYS MORE WOMEN GETTING HOOKED ON METH
From: KRCC-FM
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Meth snaring more women than any other drug.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
AIDS in Rural Georgia
From: Philip Graitcer
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The character of the AIDS epidemic is changing in rural Georgia

  • Added: Jul 23, 2006
  • Length: 03:34
AIDS and HIV in the Latino Community
From: Maeve Conran
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Efforts to counteract increasing incidents of AIDS/HIV in the Latino Community

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
HEALTH OFFICIALS GET SERIOUS ABOUT AVIAN FLU
From: KRCC-FM
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It?s going to be up to local health departments to help people in their communities with avian flu.

  • Added: Jul 07, 2006
  • Length: 05:17
FIGHTING AIDS AMONG COLORADO'S LATINOS
From: KRCC-FM
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Thursday, June 27th, is National HIV testing day.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2006
  • Length: 09:55
NEW HOSPITAL OPENS IN DURANGO
From: KRCC-FM
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A new 82-bed hospital is set to open in Durango.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
BAR OWNERS CHALLENGE STATE SMOKING BAN
From: KRCC-FM
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Colorado's ban on smoking inside bars and restaurants.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2006
  • Length: 01:41
SLEEP APNEA ? WHEN SNORING DISTURBS THE PEACE
From: KRCC-FM
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A visit to the Colorado Sleep Disorders Center.

Bought by Here and Now


  • Added: Jun 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 1
COLORADO LAB ON THE FRONT LINE OF THE FIGHT AGAINST BIRD FLU
From: KRCC-FM
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A federal lab in Ft. Collins plays a key role in efforts to detect bird flu in the U.S.

  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: :22
FREE HEALTH FAIRS BRING OUT THE UNINSURED
From: KRCC-FM
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What does it mean that tens of thousands of Coloradoans get their health care from a TV station?

  • Added: May 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:29
HIV-Positive Youth Speak Out About AIDS Education
From: Stasia DeMarco
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Young People Share Their Stories About Growing up with AIDS

Bought by WSKG and KPFA


  • Added: Apr 22, 2006
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 2
On the Market
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the War in Iraq

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN THE ROCKIES?
From: KRCC-FM
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Poor and minorities are disproportionately impacted by pollution and toxic releases the West.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2006
  • Length: 01:22