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National Parks may harbor smog along with their forests and wildlife.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, KRZA, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR and more
- Added: Jul 26, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 6
We’re mainly known for our online resources. We have interactive online courses and video broadcasts.We also do a lot with local public health, and...
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: :59
Adults can guide whether children categorize based on race or ethnicity through subtle changes in the way they use language. Bill Latimer finds out...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: :59
A subset of people going through divorce and separation are at increased risk for poor health. Bill Latimer finds out more on Public Health Minute.
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Women are the main caretakers of the sick and the majority of nurses all around the world are women; therefore, women are more exposed to some infe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: :59
Health inequalities related to obesity and cancer among Latinos in low-resource communities require interventions with a community-engaged approach...
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: :59
Dr. Theresa Betancourt, Director of the Research Program on Childran and Global Adverty at the Harvard School of Public Health and Affiliated Facul...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 01:00
Women who have experienced abuse and violence and have mental health problems are more likely to engage in health-risk behaviors. Bill Latimer find...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: :59
Being knowledgeable about one’s own illness is the first step in self-management. Bill Latimer finds out more on Public Health Minute.
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: :59
An estimated 1 in 5 US men experience physical, sexual, or psychological intimate partner violence in their lifetimes. Bill Latimer finds out on Pu...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: :59
From: Public Health Minute
Greater attachment to pets is associated with higher empathy and pro-social behavior and lower levels of depression and aggression in children aged...
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- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 1
What should consumers do who worry their data is being misused?Whose job is it to educate people about their responsibilities?Does privacy mean any...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In the past few years medical companies have been producing a range of devices to help aging people keep track of their vital statistics: pulse rat...
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Today, corporations and governments are using a vast array of tools to gather information on us. What trails are people leaving and do they even know?
- Added: Jun 19, 2014
- Length: 02:00
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
One promising new treatment for diabetes is transplanting healthy pancreatic cells into diabetics to restore their ability to digest sugars. What a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
We live in an age where everything we do online can now be tracked, recorded, and analyzed. How has our sense of our own information footprint ! ch...
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
