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Shipbuilders are pursuing a variety of measures to find more workers, including a marketing partnership with Major League Baseball
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- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 1
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
The U.S. military is going to Gaza, hoping to deliver food from a football-field-sized floating dock
From: American Homefront Project
The mobile dock can deliver up to two million meals a day, but key questions about the mission remain unanswered.
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 03:43
- Purchases: 4
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 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
The Navy stopped short of invoking the extremism rules against Bryce Henson, who has appeared at rallies alongside the Proud Boys and posted threat...
Bought by WRFA-LP, WHRV, KUT, and Texas Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2024
- Length: 03:57
- 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
Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
From: Paul Fischer
A "newsical" to mark the 50th anniversary of the kidnap of Patty Hearst by The Symbionese Liberation Army ( Feb 4 1974).
I was the “lucky” New...
- Added: Jan 28, 2024
- Length: 28:31
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
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.
Bought by North Country Public Radio, KTEP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, KUT and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2024
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 7
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
- Purchases: 1
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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California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 16:39
Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
