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A variety of health problems have been linked to contaminated water on the North Carolina Marine Corps base between 1953 and 1987.
- Added: Aug 07, 2024
- Length: 03:49
- Purchases: 5
Alternative response teams are being asked to tackle vexing problems: mental illness, homelessness, addiction. How much can they actually do? We ex...
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 37:34
How do you keep crisis responders and the people they’re helping safe?
We look at HEART’s impact on the safety of Durham residents in crisis, the ...
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 36:46
How do you convince police officers that it makes sense to send unarmed mental health workers to some 911 calls? (Part 1 of a 3-part series.)
- Added: Aug 06, 2024
- Length: 33:59
The aircraft carrier's deployment demonstrated the growing threat of enemy drones, and it spotlighted the role of social media propaganda in warfare.
Bought by KRPS, KUT, WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2024
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 6
Cost are increasing sharply as post-911 veterans begin to qualify for state benefits. But cutting the programs is politically difficult.
Bought by KRPS, KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KUT
- Added: Jul 02, 2024
- Length: 03:50
- Purchases: 5
Utilities across the country are shutting off the power of customers who refuse smart meters.
- Added: Jun 29, 2024
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 2
Since 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been hosting entrepreneurship fairs at military bases to encourage troops to start businesses.
Bought by KTEP, KRPS, North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, WUNC and more
- Added: Jun 18, 2024
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 8
Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 24:06
From: Tradeoffs
One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 17:43
A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 22:55
Investigative reporters talk with Patti and Doug about artificial turf fields and why an unusual number of Phillies baseball players developed brai...
- Added: Jun 09, 2024
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 2
As Congress figures out the future of telehealth, we get a reality check from a top researcher about what this care has and has not delivered.
- Added: Jun 05, 2024
- Length: 15:21
While the national memorial goes through a lengthy planning and fundraising process, veterans are working with state and local governments to build...
Bought by North Country Public Radio, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, WHRV, KUT and more
- Added: May 24, 2024
- Length: 03:54
- Purchases: 7
Scientific advances have allowed the Army to identify about 200 sets of remains each year - dating back to World War II. But the passage of time ha...
Bought by KPBS, KUT, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 6
Military contractor Leonard Glenn Francis bribed more than thirty Navy officials in one of the biggest military corruption cases in U.S. history.
Bought by WHRV, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KUT, and KTEP
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Shipbuilders are pursuing a variety of measures to find more workers, including a marketing partnership with Major League Baseball
Bought by Texas Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, KUT, and KMXT
- Added: Apr 17, 2024
- Length: 03:44
- Purchases: 5
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
- Purchases: 1
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
