PRX - Pieces for Topic: Health

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As a security officer in a large Vancouver hospital, Art Beck must be ready for anything.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:05
  • Purchases: 1
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Derek Ruediger documents his friend Chris's decision to have a cochlear implant operation.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 12:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Eight young boys with autistic spectrum disorder have formed "The Radio Club" to tell you what it’s like to view the world through the lens of autism.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2005
  • Length: 13:35
  • Purchases: 1
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People seeking to help soldiers are rebuffed by military

  • Added: Oct 05, 2005
  • Length: 09:03
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A look at arthritis and its affects on young people

  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 20:37
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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
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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: 09:18

  • Added: Jul 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:57
  • Purchases: 3
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Shaun Waters tells his story of fighting his way back to a normal life after a life-threatening brain infection.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2005
  • Length: 13:40
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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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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Going inside the operating room with a man having brain surgery for Parkinson's disease.

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 24:40
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In this intimate and compelling memoir, Marti Em offers a rare glimpse into what it is like to live with multiple personalities.

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 14:21
  • Purchases: 1
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This program looks at society's fixation with breasts -- a fixation that can be playful -- or downright painful.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: May 10, 2005
  • Length: 12:45
  • 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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How anger affect blood pressure

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Apr 18, 2005
  • Length: 53:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Bruce broke his arm and severed two arteries, his crew and a small fishing village worked together to get him to a hospital.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 11:43
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Erik describes himself as a prisoner in his own body. Back from Iraq with a Traumatic Brain Injury, it's not hard to see why.

Bought by KRCC-FM and WMPG


  • Added: Feb 24, 2005
  • Length: 11:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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This story is free! - Landmines in Cambodia are still a huge problem, effecting millions of children 

Bought by WBEZ, KFAI Minneapolis, and American Independence Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2005
  • Length: 06:39
  • Purchases: 3
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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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Health Care options for Oregon's uninsured look grim

  • Added: Oct 01, 2004
  • Length: 29:32
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"A Danger to Self or Others" documents everyday life inside the Chicago Cook County Jail's Mental Health Division - the largest provider of mental ...

Bought by PRX Remix and WYBC


  • Added: Sep 03, 2004
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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A trashman talks frankly about his life and work

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUT, Vocalo.org, PRX Remix, KVNF and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2004
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 7