Your Health WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors June 27, 2008 • The safety checklist has 22 items spread out over the before, during and after stages of an operation. During a pilot program, hospitals initially said they were adhering to proven standards of care only a third of the time. That rate later improved to two-thirds of the time. WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91945517/91955570" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Your Health Sheryl Lee Ralph Preaches HIV Testing for All June 26, 2008 • In preparation for National HIV Testing Day, award-winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph is on a mission to encourage everyone — particularly African-Americans — to get tested for HIV. Ralph explains her passion for HIV advocacy, and why she hasn't stopped spreading the message. Sheryl Lee Ralph Preaches HIV Testing for All Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91908392/91908383" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Aid Getting to Cyclone Victims, Despite Junta June 25, 2008 • Myanmar's leaders may have hindered relief efforts, but help is still getting through, says journalist Simon Montlake of The Christian Science Monitor. Aid Getting to Cyclone Victims, Despite Junta Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91868304/91868513" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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National Future of AIDS Funding at Stake in Senate June 23, 2008 • For months, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has led a group of senators blocking a vote on a global AIDS bill that would increase funding to $50 billion over the next five years. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says lawmakers must reach a compromise by Tuesday, or else President Bush will head to the G8 summit empty-handed. Future of AIDS Funding at Stake in Senate Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91819089/91819065" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World 'I am Powerful' Brings Resources, Hope to Women June 19, 2008 • Sheila Johnson, co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, and the international aid organization CARE have teamed up to help women around the world. Sheila Johnson and CARE president Helene Gayle discuss their "I am Powerful" campaign. 'I am Powerful' Brings Resources, Hope to Women Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91684112/91684098" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Health Marine Microbe Celebrates 20th Anniversary June 13, 2008 • About 20 years ago, researchers discovered Prochlorococcus, a photosynthetic marine microorganism. Penny Chisholm, a biologist at MIT whose work led to the discovery of the microbe, talks about its role in producing 20 percent of the oxygen in the Earth's air. Marine Microbe Celebrates 20th Anniversary Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91483930/91483920" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World Korea's Beef With U.S. Is About More Than Exports June 13, 2008 • Tens of thousands of South Koreans have taken to the streets, protesting beef exported from the U.S. But it's not just mad cows that are making Koreans very angry at the U.S., says one foreign policy analyst. Korea's Beef With U.S. Is About More Than Exports Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91461356/91461307" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World South Korea Protests Target U.S. Beef, Closer Ties June 12, 2008 • South Korean protesters took to the streets this week, angry over a new trade deal that would allow the importation of U.S. beef. Fears of mad cow disease prompted a ban on U.S. beef several years ago. South Korean trade officials visiting Washington this week are hoping to reach a compromise that will calm fears at home. South Korea Protests Target U.S. Beef, Closer Ties Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91441586/91441575" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Opinion For Kenya's Orphans, Memories of Violence Remain June 12, 2008 • Children in a Nairobi orphanage have a new, safer home, but memories of Kenya's post-election violence remain fresh. "I worry about their nightmarish dreams, about the residue of hatred that will remain in their young minds," commentator Pius Kamau says. For Kenya's Orphans, Memories of Violence Remain Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91405888/91415176" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Books Can 'Blue Zones' Help Turn Back the Biological Clock? June 8, 2008 • Author Dan Buettner's new book The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest identifies parts of the world where pockets of people tend to live longer than the rest of us. Can 'Blue Zones' Help Turn Back the Biological Clock? Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91285403/91293260" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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U.N. Holds Summit on Soaring Food Prices June 5, 2008 • The Rome-based U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is hosting a three-day summit to try to solve the short-term emergency of increased hunger caused by soaring prices. Richard Owen, a Rome-based reporter for British newspaper, The Times, is covering the conference. U.N. Holds Summit on Soaring Food Prices Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91180839/91180802" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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World U.N. World Food Crisis Talks Open June 3, 2008 • The U.N.'s summit on the world's food crisis opens in Rome on Tuesday, with calls for reform of international agriculture. The presence of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, however, diverts attention away from the conference itself. U.N. World Food Crisis Talks Open Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/91126225/91126208" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Women's Rights, Healthy Planet Go Hand-in-Hand May 30, 2008 • How do population, natural resources and women's rights all intersect? Author Robert Engelman explains in a new book how allowing women to control their reproduction can lead to a more sustainable planet Women's Rights, Healthy Planet Go Hand-in-Hand Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90975024/90975072" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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Got Zinc? Kids Don't, and Malnutrition Results May 29, 2008 • At a superambitious conference in Copenhagen this week, there was a curious and memorable proposal to increase vitamin A and zinc supplements in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa as a way to improve health and economic conditions. Got Zinc? Kids Don't, and Malnutrition Results Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90931053/90930991" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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'All Things Considered' in Chengdu, China Doctors Provide Care Despite Obstacles in China May 22, 2008 • In China's earthquake-damaged Sichuan province, 39,000 medical personnel are now working to provide care, according to provincial authorities. Chinese emergency medical workers have been able to cope with the rush of injured people. Doctors Provide Care Despite Obstacles in China Listen Transcript Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/90728507/90736280" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript
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