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Transgendered - 2012 Full Hour Program
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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This is the full hour generational discussion on Transgendered featuring an older, middle and younger guest.

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:27
Clinical Research, Big Data and Advocacy: an Interview with Nancy Brinker
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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This episode of The Onco'Zine Brief is an interview with Nancy Brinker, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. This program was originally recorde...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2017
  • Length: 24:22
The I-SPY Clinical Trial Program: Building a Pipeline of Novel Anticancer Agents
From: Peter Hofland
Series: The OncoZine Brief
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This episode of The Onco'Zine Brief is an interview with Angela M DeMichele, MD MSCE, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the Perelman School...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 33:31
Ep. 20: Reinventing the Wheelchair
From: The Story Exchange
Series: Good on the Ground
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
Upgrade
From: Trace Elements
Series: Trace Elements
Caption: A Dangerous Things kit, Credit: Alison Bruzek
Hacking your hearing aid to implanting NFC tags into your hands -- we are now in the age of DIY Bio. We dive into the growing underworld of body mo...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2016
  • Length: 18:22
Ovarian transplants are on infertility's cutting edge
From: Robin Amer
Caption: Ralph and Katy Panek were able to have children thanks to a donated ovary from Katy’s twin sister Carol Enoch., Credit: Courtesy of Carol Enoch
Thirty-six-year-old twins Carol Enoch and Katy Panek are physically identical in every way but one: Katy was born without ovaries. She never menstr...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, and KUER


  • Added: Apr 05, 2016
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 13: The Girl Who Dug Up Dinosaurs
From: KRCC-FM
Series: Wish We Were Here
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A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Identical Strangers
From: Radio Diaries
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Paula Bernstein and Elyse Schein share 100 percent of their DNA. Separated at birth, the twins were both adopted and raised by loving families. The...

Bought by WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, American Voices, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 15:05
  • Purchases: 4
From Frogs To Wands of Destiny: The Invention of the Home Pregnancy Test
From: Mother
Caption: Meg Crane's home pregnancy test prototype, 1968., Credit: Courtesy of Bonhams.
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 22, 2015
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 3
The Myth of the Female Fertility Cliff
From: marnie chesterton
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Women over 30 who haven't yet had kids are often told “tick tick; your biological clock is running out of time." Marnie Chesterton digs into the f...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 4
Inka Milewski
From: David Kattenburg
Caption: Inka Milewski, at home in Miramichi, NB, Credit: David Kattenburg
Profile of New Brunswick, Canada researcher and environmental health advocate Inka Milewski

  • Added: Oct 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:42
This Is Crohn's Disease
From: Jack Rodolico
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A patient with a nasty case of Crohn’s disease visits the best doctor in the world. That patient is this radio producer's wife.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Here and Now, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 4
Pain Unknown: Living with Fibromyalgia
From: Anna Stitt
Caption: We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Mother of Invention
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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A mother and a nurse created a device to help other breast-feeding moms.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
That Crime Of The Month
From: Criminal
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What does it mean when a woman commits a crime and attributes her actions to PMS? We revisit the first use of the "PMS defense," in this country, b...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Health Care Hackers
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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When you’re sick, looking up symptoms online is not always the best idea. But if you have a disease that’s poorly understood and often overlooked b...

Bought by KSFR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
Octopus's Garden -- Groks Science Show 2013-08-21
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Biologists Carrie Albertin and Judit Pungor join us to discuss a strange and wonderful animal, the octopus.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KPVL, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 25:57
  • Purchases: 3
Conversations
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Conversations with people who take a DIY approach to science and to life: DIY biologists working to democratize the lab, a single mom who says some...

Bought by XRAY.fm, KUT, KUOW, WYSO, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
MT Silvia, producer and director of documentary film, Atomic Mom
From: susan galleymore
Caption: from Atomic Mom, Credit: MT Silvia
Film maker MT Silvia's mother, Pauline Silvia, was a US Navy biologist conducting research on the effects of radiation on mice and dogs from 1952 t...

  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 30:02
Rocket Girls and Astro-nettes
From: Richard Paul
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Women in the ultimate Man’s World – the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA in the 60s and 70s.

Bought by KUHF, Morehead State Public Radio, KRBD, WVTF, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 82
Sound Healer
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A story of the surprising healing power of sound.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KGOU, SALTcast Podcast, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 4
To peddle pleasure
From: Ryan White
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Voices of those who bring joy to those in need

  • Added: Aug 22, 2007
  • Length: 06:09
Tunnel Singer
From: Catherine Girardeau
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Profile of a singer who is losing her voice.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 6