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The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the g...
- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 3
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.
- Added: Apr 03, 2024
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 4
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of ...
- Added: Feb 20, 2024
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 6
Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 18:02
- Purchases: 1
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that says veterans who need financial fiduciaries may be reported to the FBI’s background c...
- Added: Feb 13, 2024
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 4
Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 18:49
The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 14:31
We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two years after the department said it would provid...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 5
Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 14:21
- Purchases: 1
Karen has written about grief in a way that will help people find healthy ways to come to terms with losses that matter to them. We all are challen...
- Added: Jan 18, 2024
- Length: 53:22
A Pentagon report finds that troops' suicides are often preceded by legal or administrative troubles
From: American Homefront Project
About a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles - sometimes for minor infractions.
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- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 03:44
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A long-term study hopes to shed light on an array of vague symptoms that can affect veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 03:43
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After a string of high-profile deaths and disappearances, the Army is trying harder to find soldiers who fail to report for duty.
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- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 03:56
- Purchases: 8
Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...
- Added: Nov 15, 2023
- Length: 29:50
As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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