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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 03:51
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 18:40
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 03:47
As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.
- Added: May 21, 2022
- Length: 06:13
The South-Asian Queer activist Urvashi Vaid passed away on May 14th, but her influence remains.
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 1
We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
- Added: May 02, 2022
- Length: 16:53
Ruth Alvarez-DeGolia helps women artisans tap international markets through her social enterprise, Mercado Global -- allowing them to earn critical...
- Added: Apr 19, 2022
- Length: 10:58
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:30
There’s no end in sight to the war in Ukraine, but some refugees are heading home,
The horror revealed after the Russian retreat,
And mass graves, ...
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 58:59
Everyone is talking about the great Slapgate incident at the Oscars ceremony, but all of that trivializes what it ultimately was.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.
- Added: Mar 23, 2022
- Length: 20:23
In these times, a poem for the places we find resilience.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 11, 2022
- Length: :56
- Purchases: 1
We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 18:18
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
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:33
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 25:04
- Purchases: 1
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
More Vietnam vets now qualify for disability benefits, but it may be years before they see the money
From: American Homefront Project
Veterans suffering from certain medical conditions became eligible for "presumptive" VA disability benefits last year. But the claims they're filin...
Bought by St. Louis Public Radio, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, KPBS and more
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 7
If there ever was a life to celebrate rather than a death to mourn it was Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s.
- Added: Jan 18, 2022
- Length: 06:00
As we enter the new year 2022, we also enter the time of new COVID Variants and guidelines. Reporter Emma Needham caught up with Dr. Antony Stately...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, KVSC, WTIP, KKWE Niijii Radio and more
- Added: Jan 05, 2022
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 7