Children's Health A Child with Cancer, and Difficult Choices October 30, 2006 • A recent study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, reports that more than 1/3 of childhood cancer survivors can expect to have a life-threatening illness or serious chronic disease by the age of 45. A childhood cancer survivor talks about his experience and reaction to the results of this study, and doctors discuss how these future health problems can be avoided. A Child with Cancer, and Difficult Choices Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6406572/6406573" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Environment Water Policy Around the World October 13, 2006 • Increased demand for water around the world means that some sources are running dry, leaving areas without enough fresh water. More affluent areas are turning to untapped sources of water including desalination and creative reuse or recycling of existing water sources. Water Policy Around the World Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6261527/6261528" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health The Evolving Debate over Cochlear Implants October 12, 2006 • Cochlear implants have divided the deaf community for years. Many see the technology, which offers some degree of hearing, as a threat to deaf culture. Now that debate is shifting. Neal Conan and guests discuss the benefits and drawbacks of cochlear implants. The Evolving Debate over Cochlear Implants Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6253708/6253709" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Africa's Lagging Development AIDS, Other Diseases Create Poverty Trap in Africa October 12, 2006 • An estimated 2 million Africans die each year of AIDS, and 24 million are infected with HIV. Malaria, cholera and even polio are on the rise in Africa, all hampering social and economic development on the globe's most impoverished continent. AIDS, Other Diseases Create Poverty Trap in Africa Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6247813/6247872" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Burundi's Free Health Care Saves Lives, Faces Fight October 8, 2006 • The chance of dying during childbirth is far higher in Africa than in industrialized nations. But for pregnant women in the tiny central African country of Burundi, that danger eased this year when the government began offering free medical care. Burundi's Free Health Care Saves Lives, Faces Fight Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6219856/6219857" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National Green Burial Movement Spreads to the Southwest September 21, 2006 • The Green Burial Council announced the nation's first standards for environmentally friendly burials. The regimen, which proscribes embalming, vaults, or metal caskets, has been used in Britain for a decade. Now the debate is whether the methods touted by the council, based in New Mexico, will catch on across America. Green Burial Movement Spreads to the Southwest Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6119301/6119302" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Thousands Sickened by Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast September 17, 2006 • Seven people in the Ivory Coast have died and thousands have become sick because of toxic chemical waste dumped around the capital city of Abidjan. The victims began vomiting and suffering breathing difficulties and migraines after breathing fumes from the waste. Host Debbie Elliott talks to the BBC's James Copnall, who is in Abidjan. Thousands Sickened by Toxic Waste in Ivory Coast Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6093544/6093545" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Children's Health Researchers Still Learning from Romania's Orphans September 16, 2006 • After communism fell in Romania, the outside world was outraged at the discovery of orphanages filled with neglected children. As Sasha Aslanian of American RadioWorks reports, scientists studying the effects of the deprivation are trying to learn how much recovery is possible. Researchers Still Learning from Romania's Orphans Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6089477/6089478" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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WHO Backs Use of DDT Against Malaria September 15, 2006 • The World Health Organization today announced a major policy change. It's actively backing the controversial pesticide DDT as a way to control malaria. Malaria kills about 1 million people a year, mainly children, despite a decades-long effort to eradicate it. WHO Backs Use of DDT Against Malaria Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/6083944/6083968" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Research News How Can Genetic Research Improve Cancer Treatments? September 8, 2006 • Scientists looking at the genetics of cancer cells say tumors -- even those of the same type of cancer -- vary remarkably from person to person, and so should their treatment. Guests discuss the latest in cancer research, from gene therapy for melanoma, to cataloging the genes associated with colon cancer and breast cancer. How Can Genetic Research Improve Cancer Treatments? Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5788807/5788808" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Analysis Obesity Latest U.S. Trend Sweeping the Globe September 7, 2006 • The latest American trend that's blowing up worldwide? Obesity. Slate contributor Will Saletan has examined the swelling figures about international obesity, and discusses the implications Alex Chadwick. Obesity Latest U.S. Trend Sweeping the Globe Listen Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5781952/5781953" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">
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Health The Latest Buzz on the Mosquito War September 4, 2006 • It's a war that began more than a century ago, but there's no end in sight. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars each year. And hundreds of scientists have devoted their lives to it. It's the battle against disease-carrying mosquitoes. The Latest Buzz on the Mosquito War Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5753574/5753613" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Officials Keep Close Watch on Bird Flu Experts: Use 1918 Methods to Fight Pandemic August 29, 2006 • When the next pandemic strikes, Navy researchers suggest reviving a treatment used during the deadly pandemic of 1918. Back then, military doctors injected severely afflicted patients with blood or blood plasma from people who had recovered from the flu. Studies show the treatment reduced mortality rates by as much as 50 percent. Experts: Use 1918 Methods to Fight Pandemic Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5731688/5732879" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Still Looking for Malaria Vaccine, 10 Years Later August 21, 2006 • Ten years ago, researchers announced they were closing in on a vaccine for malaria, one of the deadliest diseases plaguing the developing world. But like many scientific breakthroughs making news when they're first announced, progress toward a vaccine has run into complications. Still Looking for Malaria Vaccine, 10 Years Later Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683787/5683788" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Africa Update: Toronto AIDS Conference August 21, 2006 • Efforts to combat the spread of HIV in Africa was the highlight of the recent international AIDS conference, held this year in Toronto, Canada. Africa Update: Toronto AIDS Conference Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/5683570/5683571" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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