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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
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The social stigma surrounding mental illness is very real. What would happen if we changed our perspective on mental illness and how we treat it?

Bought by KOWS, KMXT, KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Peter Lee, outgoing Executive Director of Covered California, Credit: Photo used with the permission of Covered California
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:08
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Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: From a risk/reward standpoint, does it make sense to fly to another country to get vaccinated there? Also, is it OK to brea...

  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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Ears Adrift explores myths and facts about the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 12:10
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This week on the show: In late January 2020, a doctor in Munich made a startling discovery about COVID-19 with major implications. It ended up be...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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Topic 1 - The Battle to Compensate Ground Zero First Responders; Topic 2 - Will Oil Drilling in ANWR Further Threaten Polar Bears?; Topic 3 - How M...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 51:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Children walking in flood water, Norfolk, VA, Credit: Emily Richardson-Lorente
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2020
  • Length: 32:34
Caption: California Climate Map, Credit: Photo by: Ali Zifan (CC BY-SA 4.0) (derived from World Köppen Classification (with authors).svg)
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: An invisible enemy - Invisible, oderless, and it could be anywhere — the novel coronavirus has the perfect "ingredients" ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12
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The theme of this episode is, "Marijuana".

  • Added: Nov 07, 2019
  • Length: 52:00
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Many patients arrive in the emergency room as a result of violence or car crashes—events in which police have an investigative interest. Sometimes,...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 17:30
  • Purchases: 1
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David Meiswinkle and Barbara Honegger of The Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, and Richard Gage AIA, of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth ...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Drive into a child, or swerve and hit two grandparents? Such horrendously difficult choices will soon be programmed into our...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum: Go for launch - On this week's special show: Some of you may have heard that there's a certain 'European of German descent' floati...

Bought by KRZA and WXDU


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week in The Onco’Zine Brief: Peter Hofland, Ph.D and Sonia Portillo talk with Otis Brawley, MD, MACP the Chief Medical and Scientific Officer ...

  • Added: May 12, 2018
  • Length: 39:38
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Spectrum: Germany’s wild boar Problem - For German hunters, it’s open season on wild boars all year round. There is, perhaps, good reason for t...

Bought by KRJF-lp, KRZA, WYAP, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 6
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In this Edition of the OncoZine Brief, recorded during the 59th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology, held December 9 to 12, 2017 i...

  • Added: Dec 25, 2017
  • Length: 43:18
Caption: Dr. Kalpana DePasquale and Warren Miller
On the third segment of "The Empowered Patient" pilot program -- the organic revolution has changed how we buy food, where we buy it, and our relat...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 24:31
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The number of people dying from infections is likely to rise over in the coming years as more and more bacteria become drug-resistant. One of them,...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 06:44
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Striking a power pose--standing like a superhero--may boost your confidence and get you short-term gains. But scientists don't yet know if, or when...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate scientist and MacArthur "Genius" award-winner Ben Santer says scientists don't yet know if climate change is affecting the timing of the se...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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In a new, entertaining 2 min. weekly module, former Time Magazine health journalist Janice Horowitz, provides the cure for contradictory medical news.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:02