PRX - Pieces for Topic: Health

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Drowning in stuff, a hoarder discovers how to let go of some objects.

Bought by KVMR, WDBM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2006
  • Length: 11:44
  • Purchases: 7
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Can all our current woes be laid at the feet of Ambien? Ian wonders.

  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 02:20
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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
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A parent faces making informed decisions when their unborn baby has an uncertain outcome due to a life threatening heart defect.

  • Added: May 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:58
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A documentary about walking; its benefits and cultural history.

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KUER, KRZA, KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Lena was born and lived to tell the tale...barely.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2006
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
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This Story is Free! Shanta, age 14, teaches her community in rural Nepal about water and sanitation, and learns to come out of her shell

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio and KWCW


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
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Peter Pereira reads his poems "The Cause and the Cure for Hiccups" as part of the Jack Straw Writers Program.

Bought by PRX Administrator


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
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ATMI reporter Sara Perman investigates what teens think (and know) about sex.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2006
  • Length: 09:26
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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
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ATMI's Rebecca Barker profiles three homeless Anchorage teens.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Bill McKibben decides to eat only food grown locally. In the winter. In Vermont.

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, KISU, KUT, KVNF and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2006
  • Length: 07:42
  • Purchases: 10
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What if you know you will loose your hearing at age 18? Kevin and James Hatch face this dilemma with surprising grace.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, SALTcast Podcast, KZSC, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 8
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Visit the Richmond Saunas in Richmond Maine. Your clothing is optional.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 06:28
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Matthew, who's been living on the streets of Boston for nearly ten years, travels to NYC to test the latest sleeping invention: The Metropod.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WSCS-FM


  • Added: Jan 09, 2006
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 2
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Eva Castellanos, a curandero in Nyssa, Oregon, employs massage, herbs, and prayer to help those who seek her healing.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
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A dance program in California that connects dancers who can see with those who cannot.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2005
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Do you need to lose your virginity to be considered a man? Parris Cayer-Leary turns to his grandfather for answers.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
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This Story Is Free! Kerril McKay tells the story of how HIV has affected her life

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KRCB 104.9, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KDNK


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:13
  • Purchases: 4
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This Story is Free! Nakwan Leknork from Thailand Helps other Young People Stem the Tide of HIV

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:00
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This Story is Free! Raguwaran Kandhaswamy is a Young Man with a Mission: to end HIV transmission

  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:03
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This Story is Free! Livey Van Wyk is a Namibian AIDS activist

Bought by WFUV, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUCB


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 3
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This Story is free! Iryna Kalinichenko tells her story of how HIV has affected her life.

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Nov 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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This Story is Free! Correspondent Miranda Eeles reports on a new telephone hotline in Bam , Iran

  • Added: Nov 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:58
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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