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Understanding the mental health crisis afflicting American teens

WebDAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. Last December, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a special advisory …

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Segments by Date Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WebIt's called "Beau Is Afraid." And it tells the darkly comic story of a man named Beau, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who's just trying to get home to visit his mother. Listen …

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How poverty and racism 'weather' the body, accelerating aging …

WebPublic Health researcher Arline Geronimus makes the case that marginalized people suffer nearly constant stress from living with poverty and discrimination, which …

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How U.S. Health Care Became Big Business Fresh Air Archive

WebJournalist and former physician Elisabeth Rosenthal on how American healthcare became big business, dysfunctional, and difficult for patients to navigate. …

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Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us …

WebInvestigative journalist Michael Moss's 2013 book, Salt Sugar Fat, explored food companies' aggressive marketing of those products and their impact on our health. …

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A Doctor Confronts Medical Errors — And Flaws In The System …

WebDr. Danielle Ofri's new book, When We Do Harm, explores health care system flaws that foster mistakes — many of which are committed by caring, …

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Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much — Even For Those With Health …

WebAlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, Viva, Auder and …

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College Students (And Their Parents) Face A Campus Mental …

WebAs colleges and universities across the country report an explosion of mental health problems, a new book argues that college life may be more stressful than ever. …

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A Doctor's View of Medical Testing at Holmesburg Prison

WebAlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, …

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The Life and Death of Nancy Spungen

WebNovember 9, 1984. 25:55. Deborah Spungen, who wrote a book about her daughter's murder by punk musician Sid Vicious, founded a Philadelphia chapter of …

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Robert G Sharrar Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WebDr. Robert Sharrar is an epidemiologist monitoring the spread of AIDS in Philadelphia as the Director of the Division of Disease Control at the Philadelphia Department of Health. …

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The Heat Wave Of 1896 And The Rise Of Roosevelt.

WebDuring the summer of 1896, a 10-day heat wave killed nearly 1,500 people across New York City — many of them tenement-dwellers. In Hot Time in the Old Town, …

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Elyn Saks: A Scholar's Memoir of Schizophrenia

WebIn The Center Cannot Hold, lawyer and psychiatry professor Elyn R. Saks chronicles her own struggle with schizophrenia. The battle began with early symptoms at …

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Susanna Kaysen Discusses her Time Spent in a Mental Hospital.

WebAuthor Susanna Kaysen. At age eighteen, she was hospitalized in Boston's McLean Psychiatric Hospital. Her two years there, from 1967-1969 and experiences of …

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How Systemic Racism Continues To Determine Black Health And …

WebThere is a 30-year gap in the life expectancies of Black and white Chicagoans depending on their ZIP code. Journalist Linda Villarosa says the disparity in life …

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The Boston Women's Health Collective: Twenty Years Later.

WebAlexandra Auder's mother, Viva, was one of Andy Warhol's muses. Growing up in Warhol's orbit meant Auder's childhood was an unusual one. For several years, …

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Terry Gross Fresh Air Archive: Interviews with Terry Gross

WebTerry Gross is the host and an executive producer of Fresh Air, the daily program of interviews and reviews. It is produced at WHYY in Philadelphia, where Gross …

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ACT UP Fights for Better AIDS Care

WebYesterday President Bush voiced his opposition to federally funded needle exchange programs to stop the spread of AIDS. Today Terry talks with activist Rod …

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Sandy Tolan's "The Lemon Tree."

Web"The Lemon Tree" is a special documentary marking the 50th Anniversary of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It was produced for Fresh Air by …

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