PRX - Pieces for Topic: Health

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An Interview with John Kevin Hines a suicide survivor

  • Added: Sep 09, 2008
  • Length: 06:05
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a commentary by Nanci Olesen about her sister's brain cancer

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KXOT Public Radio, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
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Usual approaches to solving homelessness do not work for youths who are find themselves homeless.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2008
  • Length: 04:45
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Two years ago, 166 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from New Orleans ended up in Omaha, Nebraska. Two years out, one man is trying hard--perhaps too hard...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KUT-HD


  • Added: Dec 10, 2007
  • Length: 05:24
  • Purchases: 2
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A short first person essay about losing my hearing

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Oct 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
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Jason Peacemaker shares his intimate story about HIV through a healing song. This is contrasted by random people's reactions to the question, What...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Aug 27, 2007
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 2
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A cane helps Gloria Troyer keep her balance but she has mixed feelings about signalling her disability.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
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There is never a moment in any day when Corrina Hodgson is not in pain because of a heriditary spinal condition. How will this affect her brother's...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
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Rick Cepella was out in the woods trying to capture the beauty of rural British Columbia when a small tick lodged in his scalp and giving him Lyme ...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 12:50
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Barbara Harrison puts her rocky relationship with her father aside to help him deal with Alzheimer's.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 14:15
  • Purchases: 1
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If your brother is a drug addict, what do you do?

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Micheal Geary has cancer. It could be getting worse. What do you tell the kids?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2005
  • Length: 06:54
  • Purchases: 1
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4