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Corn: that most American of grains. These days corn is feed, fuel and ubiquitous sweetener, the biggest of business and some say the core of an ind...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, and WRPI
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 55:01
- Purchases: 4
Two research teams get unexpected results and health advocates see even more reason to get people to give up sweet drinks.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 06:05
- Purchases: 1
At this New Hampshire high school, it took a professional chef to get kids to eat healthy food.
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 05:34
In Part I of our series, Tipping the Scales, we look at how obesity affected one young man's life -- and how he got a grip on it.
- Added: Sep 29, 2011
- Length: 05:41
Shannon Brownlee is the acting director of the New America Foundation’s Health Policy Initiative and the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medici...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 35:41
A shortage of doctors and an aging population has put stress on our current healthcare system. Dr. David Lawrence, formerly of Kaiser, looks at the...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 33:54
- Purchases: 1
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 03:55
Although insulin was discovered 89 years ago, children with Type 1 diabetes are still dying in parts of the developing world for lack of the life-s...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 27:59
Poop talk: when its personal, its embarrassing—at least for most people—but when you’re talking about global access to sanitary conditions, it’s a ...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 08:18
- Purchases: 1
Sabrina McCormick, PhD. author of No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer. Dr. McCormick points out the fallacy of continuing t...
- Added: Aug 10, 2011
- Length: 28:40
More than 80,000 existing chemicals are actively in use in a wide range of consumer products with no assurance that they don’t pose serious health ...
- Added: Aug 08, 2011
- Length: 55:02
- Purchases: 2
Lessons from Fukushima Dai-ichi. Have we really learned anything from Japan's Fukushima disaster?? In this two part interview, Sidney Goodman, en...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 28:49
Lessons from Fukushima Dai-ichi. Have we really learned anything from Japan's Fukushima disaster?? In this two part interview, Sidney Goodman, en...
- Added: Aug 03, 2011
- Length: 28:35
A multiyear study begun at Harvard follows shy babies into adulthood. As producer Kelley Libby reports, 15 to 20 percent of us grow up to be shy.
Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 01, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Ron Cummins, executive director of the Organic Consumers Association discusses the genetic manipulation of our food supply. Called GMO's (genetica...
- Added: Jul 25, 2011
- Length: 28:37
Ron Cummins, executive director of the Organic Consumers Association discusses the genetic manipulation of our food supply. Called GMO's (genetica...
- Added: Jul 25, 2011
- Length: 28:37
- Added: Jul 21, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs to treat hepatitis C, a virus that can cause liver damage and cancer.
The...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 04:04
- Purchases: 1
Aileen LeBlanc tells a very personal story of her friends Conrad and Evelyn who fell in love in older age.
- Added: May 11, 2011
- Length: 18:25
Three commissioners from the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders visited Minneapolis last week, to meet with community ...
- Added: May 05, 2011
- Length: 04:14
Dr. Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, now in its 5th Edition, shares with us the latest research and developments in breast cance...
- Added: May 02, 2011
- Length: 28:45
Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 02:00
A look into the steps that the university is taking to keep students healthy and informed. Reported by Ally Seibert.
- Added: Apr 27, 2011
- Length: 03:18
For over a century, U.S. farmers have strived for quantity of food. Quality, though, is at least as important.
- Added: Apr 19, 2011
- Length: 05:26
Bill Gates is spending one billion dollars in two years to eradicate polio. Although a deadly and crippling disease, it is extremely hard to end an...
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 02:00
