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Did you know that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves more than 40 million Americans, or about 1 in 8 people living in pove...
Bought by KVNF and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 07, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
We are told that our personal health is our individual responsibility based on our own choices. Yet, the biological truth is that human health is d...
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 28:30
Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 49:38
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 04:00
The AIDS Memorial Quilt is displayed in San Francisco. "Civic" hears from activists and officials about future plans for combating AIDS.
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Aug 29, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
North Carolina Voters Challenge GOP Rep. Cawthorn’s Right to Run for Congr...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Damian Paletta discussed the early administration responses to COVID-19 in his book, Nightmare Scenario.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 19, 2021
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 04:26
Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 03:21
Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:27
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 04:18
The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here to stay, even with vaccines. In this seg...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 04:07
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...
- Added: Apr 22, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 03:52
Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 03:58
Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 04:10
Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:00
COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:03
Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 04:21
The Psycology of the Covid-19 Health Crisis. A look at Mental Health and Media Use with Clinical Psycologist Dr Russell Bourne. In practice for ove...
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- Added: Feb 13, 2021
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Single-Payer System Would Be More Effective in Managing Pandemics; Julian ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
