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Culture of the Mind
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the country's first and only group of "Ethnic Psychiatry" wards.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2005
  • Length: 11:12
Overcoming drug addiction - part II
From: KEDM
Series: Overcoming Drug Addiction
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This two-part feature examines drug addiction from multiple perspectives—addict, counselor, parent and teacher—to provide listeners with a more com...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2005
  • Length: 06:46
RN Documentary: Humour & Healing
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Does Humour have benefical health effects?

Bought by WCQS, WETA, and WFUV


  • Added: Jul 12, 2005
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 3
Asia-AIDS
From: Steve Herman
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Asian tsunami blamed for increasing AIDS risk

  • Added: Jul 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:04
Crystal Meth spreads in Georgia.
From: David Barasoain
Series: Meth spread in Georgia
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Crystal Methamphetamine in Georgia.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2005
  • Length: 06:40
Treatment and Recovery
From: KRCC-FM
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Challenges of Drug Treatment Programs in Colorado

  • Added: Jun 25, 2005
  • Length: 08:10
Rural Meth
From: KRCC-FM
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Looking Behind the Headlines About Meth

Bought by Here and Now and KVMR


  • Added: Jun 25, 2005
  • Length: 10:07
  • Purchases: 2
The Unit
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: CBC Radio's Outfront
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For most of us, our jobs are hardly a matter of life and death but that's exactly what Andrew McLaren deals with everyday.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:02
  • Purchases: 1
A Prescription For Life Long Independence
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Dr. Lipschitz talks about why our health declines in our later years, how to slow the decline.

Bought by KQED and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:47
  • Purchases: 2
Women's Rights: an Unfinished Agenda
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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An examination of women's reproductive rights.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Stephen Buhner - The Secret Teachings of Plants
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Stephen Buhner author of The Secret Teachings of Plants discusses how ancient and indigenous peoples learned about plants FROM the plants themselve...

  • Added: May 18, 2005
  • Length: 29:23
Toxic Living
From: Voices of Our World
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Deirdre Imus explains the connection between household chemical cleaning agents and pediatric cancers.

Bought by KUNM, KHSU, KVSC, and KMXT


  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Anti- Malarial Bednets Make a Difference in Tanzania
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! A program to provide bednets to prevent malaria in Tanzania, starting with the women and children, is a huge success.

  • Added: May 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:10
Dr. Masaru Emoto - Hidden Messages in Water
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Masuru Emoto's work with water crystals show that our thoughts and words affect the physical world.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2005
  • Length: 29:14
Other Answers
From: marybethkirchner group
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One-hour special/pilot on children’s health with pediatrician Dr. Jay Gordon and guest, actor Noah Wyle of “ER.”

  • Added: Apr 12, 2005
  • Length: 55:16
Hollywood Beauty Reigns in Asian-American Eyes
From: WFUV
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WFUV's George Bodarky reports on the growing number of Asian-Americans seeking plastic surgery to look more like their favorite American celebrities.

Bought by Outer Voices, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGVU, WAER Syracuse, NY, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 7
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
Living Well Show - Dr. Steven Woolf, MD
From: KRZA
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Steven Woolf, MD discusses his research into the racial disparities in health care in the US.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:47
Living Well Show - Dr. Noreena Hertz - The Debt Threat
From: KRZA
Series: Living Well Show
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Dr. Noreena Herts discusses the burden of thrid world debt and how it effects us all.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 29:45
Burning Barrels Trash Environment
From: The Environment Report
Series: Your Choice; Your Planet series
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People in rural areas still use burning barrels, but the pollution contaminates the food grown on farms.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2005
  • Length: 05:07
Child Trafficking Around the World
From: UNICEF
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This story is free! - Story of the problem of Child Trafficking in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa

Bought by AIFM and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2
357 Synesthesia
From: Lichtenstein Creative Media
Series: The Infinite Mind
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The world of scrambled senses.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and WBRS


  • Added: Jan 20, 2005
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 2
Reaching the Autistic Child - Part 2 - Treatment
From: Karen Brown
Series: Reaching the Autistic Child - Diagnosis and Treatment
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Part two of a 2-parter on early diagnosis and treatment for autism.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2005
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Reaching the Autistic Child - Part 1 - Diagnosis
From: Karen Brown
Series: Reaching the Autistic Child - Diagnosis and Treatment
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Part one of a 2-parter on early diagnosis and treatment for autism.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2005
  • Length: 08:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Wild Child: Coping with a Bipolar Youth
From: Karen Brown
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This documentary follows three young people as they navigate puberty and adolescence with bipolar disorder.

Bought by WRPI, KUER, WXXI Rochester, PRX to iTunes, Central Florida Public Media and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2004
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 14