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Sick and Sicker
From: Voices of Our World
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America's health care system is unraveling. Everyday, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves ...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
QUEST Sniffing Out Indoor Air Pollution
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Indoor air pollution can be far more harmful than what you breathe outside

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 1
Into a Million Pieces
From: Vermont Folklife Center Media
Series: Youth Radio Vermont
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John Halligan talks about the loss of his son to suicide.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, YouthCast, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Jun 14, 2007
  • Length: 19:53
  • Purchases: 3
"Sicko" comes to Sacramento
From: KVMR
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Filmaker Michael Moore brings his health care documentary to California

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 15:54
Adventures in Genetic Testing
From: Neille Ilel
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A story about facing your fate, and your mother.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 2
From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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This is a story about dying well. It's my father's story.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
Workplace Injury, Death and George Bush
From: Dick Meister
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The Bush administration is ignoring its legal obligation to lessen the workplace hazards that kill and seriously injure millions of Americans. i

  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 05:29
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
This I Believe - Isabel Legarda
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Massachusetts anesthesiologist Isabel Legarda believes every person and every breath is precious.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: May 29, 2007
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
What Makes Milk "Organic"?
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: June 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
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What do you envision when you think of an organic dairy farm? Cows out grazing in a pasture? Or standing on the concrete floor of a feedlot?

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
Najdi Hospital, Room 402
From: Jessica Dheere
Series: The Sound of Bomblets
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12-year-old Hassan talks about his cluster bomb injuries from his hospital bed

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 07:30
Musical Abilities
From: WFUV
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A documentary exploring the lives and music of disabled performers, including singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt and Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen.

Bought by KVNF, KSFR, KVSC, WGDR, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
This I Believe - Jake Hovenden
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Alaska high school student Jake Hovenden came to believe in inner strength while watching his stepmother care for his dying father.

Bought by WEZU, KJZZ, and Alaska Public Radio Network


  • Added: May 23, 2007
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 3
Vocal Cord Lost (and regained)
From: Wes Alwan
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On losing my voice and getting it backw

  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:58
From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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Story about my father's decision to stop medical treatment.

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: May 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Blood and Paper Trails
From: Jennifer Dunn
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HIV carriers in rural China struggle for livelyhood and justice

Bought by WBEZ


  • Added: May 17, 2007
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 1
A Darfur village turns its back on conflict, opting instead for development
From: UNICEF
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This Story is Free! This piece outlines to listeners how in Darfur, not everything is black and white - its gives an alternate perspective on the d...

  • Added: May 10, 2007
  • Length: 03:56
Teasers for "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally!"
From: Noah Chandler
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Short teasers for the the series "SisterLove: Keeping it Real, Globally"

  • Added: May 09, 2007
  • Length: 02:18
Higher Ed in the Round Special: ?The Future of Science in America?
From: Michael Black
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Dr. Harold Varmus talk and Dicussion

Bought by WSKG


  • Added: May 08, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • 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
Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Can the brain repair itself?? Change at any time in life?? Science has, until recently, held that the brain could not change or repair itself, eme...

  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 28:46
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

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