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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
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
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
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
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
Interlochen Public Radio's Ed Ronco talks with science journalist Ed Yong.
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- Added: Oct 07, 2023
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 2
This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
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
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
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
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
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
California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 03:53
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
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
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
In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:30
While hundreds of soft-story buildings in San Francisco have been upgraded by their owners to survive a major quake, city officials said 700 such b...
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 29:33
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Health care in America has always run at a high cost. In Utah, hospitals are taking action to make pharmaceuticals affordable for all.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:00
