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Saving Warm Water Therapy Pool at Portland Providence Medical Center

To sign the petition to save the warm water therapy pool at Providence Portland Medical Center, go to: www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/easter-seals-oregon-and-providence-health-systems-please-don-t-close-the-only-warm-water-therapy-pool-in-the-portland-area   To see the lette... Read more

Abe and Joe ponder the recent preponderance of religious misbehavior.

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Some three centuries into the Age of Reason, there still seem to be an inordinate number of public clashes between the secular and the sacred. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is using the two-week runup to the 4th of July ... Read more

Leader Dogs for the Blind

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck You may have seen a monkey riding a unicycle, but have you ever seen a lion riding a bicycle? Mark Mansell, superintendent of the La Center Public Schools is a member of Lions International. He plans to ride his bicycle from Portland OR to Portl... Read more

Forced Drugging of Children Focus of Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium

Airs at: Wed, 05/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   The Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium is this weekend, featuring attorney Jim Gottstein, lectures, talks and panels, and a resource fair. Our guests this morning are Jim Gottstein and symposium founder Marcia Thompson, speaking on Psychotropic Dr... Read more

Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance tell their stories

Airs at: Fri, 04/20/2012 at 12:00am
Hosts Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires speak with members of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance. The group is working to create a community of people who desire to find justice, answers and support for the generational victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. It was fo... Read more

Morquio Syndrome

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck   Students at Central High School in Independence, Oregon have banded together to raise money to help their classmate, Mason Stokes, who has Morquio syndrome, an inherited, seriously physically deforming disease. We will learn how the students h... Read more

Dr. Paul Gorman on why we need a National Single Payer Health System

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Dr. Paul Gorman from Oregon Health & Science University. Here in America, we pay some of the Highest Costs for Medical Care, yet reap some of the Worst Results. Why?  We Waste Way Too Much Money on the Private Health Insurance Industry. ... Read more

Analysis of the Mental Health Industry

Airs at: Wed, 04/04/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Is it possible that the drug-based psychiatric care industry has actually fueled an epidemic of mental illness? Our guest is Dr. Harriet Cooke of the local group Rethinking Psychiatry, which puts on an annual symposium scrutinizing the mental h... Read more

Kambri Crews, author of "Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir."

Airs at: Mon, 03/26/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Host Paul Van Dyck interviews Kambri Crews, author of "Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir." She tells her story of growing up hearing with deaf parents. Read more

Why are so many children being diagnosed bipolar?

Airs at: Mon, 03/05/2012 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Madness Radio
Hosted by Will Hall Today Madness Radio asks, Why are so many children being diagnosed bipolar? Are medications needed to treat disease - or just keep children under control? What else can parents do when faced with difficult behavioral problems? Sharna Olfman, Psycholo... Read more