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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 28:14
- Purchases: 2
It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
Jess speaks from her experience conducting deep ocean research to answer questions raised by UCS scientists and staff about the recent disasters of...
- Added: Jun 30, 2023
- Length: 19:00
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:25
Author Kristina Marusic talks about her new book A New War on Cancer about the environmental links to the dreaded disease.
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Jenny Davies (MD, MPH and JD) talks about how chemicals in plastic leach into the contents of any plastic bottle.
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 28:41
- Purchases: 3
NY Sierra Club's Tracy Frisch tells why spreading sewage sludge on farmland is a really bad idea that will contaminate fields forever.
Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WNED Buffalo
- Added: Jun 05, 2023
- Length: 28:15
- Purchases: 3
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
- Purchases: 1
The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 2
A government study showing cell phones cause cancer has been downplayed by the wireless industry, and for good reason.
Bought by WRFA-LP, WNED Buffalo, and WYAP
- Added: May 01, 2023
- Length: 56:28
- Purchases: 3
A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
Chemicals in personal care products millions of women use everyday increase your risk of breast cancer.
- Added: Apr 17, 2023
- Length: 28:21
On this edition of GSN, Dr. Paul Heroux explains some of the history of cell phones and how and why they should be made safer.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Apr 10, 2023
- Length: 28:15
- Purchases: 1
The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.
Bought by WNED Buffalo and WYAP
- Added: Apr 03, 2023
- Length: 57:10
- Purchases: 2
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
Will endocrine disrupting chemicals that cause declines in sperm production finally finish off the human race?
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 04, 2023
- Length: 28:22
- Purchases: 1
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
- Purchases: 1
Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 28:04
After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:15
Debates in state capitols over how to fill gaps in the country's COVID-weary health workforce are reigniting long-standing turf wars among professi...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 18:42
A federal rule requires providers to start giving patients easier access to much more of their health care data, but it’s fraught with implementati...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 16:55
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24
In Part 3 of our special series on 988, we go on the ground to hear from individuals working in their communities to prepare for America’s new ment...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 15, 2022
- Length: 21:29
- Purchases: 1
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 16:16
