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It's an Emergency!
From: Paula Mauro
Caption: one of Jenny Feder's houses
Examining the artistic process, with power tools.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
Thinness and Salvation
From: Sarah Yahm
Caption: PRX default Piece image
a piece about the symbolic meaning of fat in our culture

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, KUT-HD, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jul 07, 2008
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 5
A Northwest Pilgrim
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Seattle woman walks an almost 500-mile pilgrimage trail to mark being cancer-free. KRAK

  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 18:21
Riding the Waves: Exploring Waterbirth
From: Rebecca Sheir
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Coming into the world... with a splash.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 1
Comfort and Addiction
From: Amy Conger
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People speak candidly about food, comfort and compulsion

Bought by Vocalo.org and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 06, 2008
  • Length: 19:30
  • Purchases: 2
The Water Walker
From: Seattle Globalist
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A day in the life of an Ethiopian woman who walks hours each day fetching water.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 05:49
  • Purchases: 3
Luck's No Lady
From: Libby Conn
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This half hour documentary examines a growing public health concern for women: pathological gambling.

Bought by SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 31, 2008
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 2
Surgical Advances for Breast Cancer
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Surgical options for breast cancer increase with early detection

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Is Oncology always needed for Breast Cancer?
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A discussion of advances in oncology options for breast cancer and the role of early detection

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 08:28
Get Support to Deal with Breast Cancer
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Caption: PRX default Piece image
No one should have to go through breast cancer alone. A look at the availability of patient services

  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 08:25
Mammography: Won't Help if You Don't Use it
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A discussion of advances in mammography and reasons to use it

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 09:17
  • Purchases: 1
Genetic Advances in Detecting and Preventing Breast Cancer
From: WSKG
Series: Breast Care: An Update
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Discussion of Genetics and Breast Cancer

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 10, 2008
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 1
We are the Canaries
From: Briana O'Higgins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Chronic Illness multi-narrative

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX to iTunes, and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 08:13
  • Purchases: 3
Women's group fights malnutrition with knowledge in San Pablo La Laguna, Guatemala
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This story is free! Women's group in San Pablo La Laguna on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala uses workshop trainings and community based education to lowe...

Bought by KZYX, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network


  • Added: Sep 20, 2007
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 3
Bringing In Baby: Pre-Maternal Care for Alaska Natives
From: Rebecca Sheir
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In rural Alaska, high-risk pregnancies require a special sort of care.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:36
Moms of Multiples Find Strength in Numbers
From: Northwest News Network (N3)
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Twin-birth rate is up 70% nationwide. We profile a group of women who share the singular experience of raising multiples

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 17, 2007
  • Length: 03:38
  • 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
Lessons Learned from Katrina: A New Network
From: WKNO
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In the days following Hurricane Katrina, countless Americans watched, and listened, to the growing chaos in disbelief. One nurse, Kathy McGregor, f...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:39
  • Purchases: 1
Narcoleptic Christmas
From: Hillary Frank
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A woman discovers she's narcoleptic at Christmastime.

Bought by KUER and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 07:24
  • Purchases: 2
Before & After: The Second Spirit of a One-Eyed Photographer
From: Rebecca Sheir
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When she lost her sight, she found her vision.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 16, 2006
  • Length: 06:51
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: Home Sweet Home Birth
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A look at the Dutch tradition of home births and what the future has in store for his practice.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
Birth Night
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Follow doula-in-training Megan Sloat as she witnesses and assists with birth for the first time.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WMPG


  • Added: May 24, 2006
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 2
Stagefright
From: Steve Mencher
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A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2006
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 6
Perinatal Hospice: A Parents Story
From: Miles Eddy
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Hospice care is something that most people associate with elderly people, or at least terminally ill adults. But what happens when the life that is...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and KRCC-FM


  • Added: Nov 05, 2005
  • Length: 07:15
  • Purchases: 2
Obesity
From: WAMU
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Jennifer has curves to die for...but she doesn't want to die for 'em! Find out why her friends don't necessarily feel the same.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WBEZ, and KCUR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 5