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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
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...
- Added: Nov 27, 2023
- Length: 48:10
After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 36:11
- Purchases: 3
When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 27:32
- Purchases: 4
When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dobbs decision, clinicians rush to decipher its implications.
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 26:52
- Purchases: 4
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
The trauma of war and intergenerational PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) is discussed. And how state of the art ‘telepresence’, a technology ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 24:40
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
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
How does the COVID-19 pandemic end? Does it end in a bang, or just fizzle out? What we know for sure is that this story is far from over.
In today...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 12, 2020
- Length: 30:01
- Purchases: 1
In this first episode of our special podcast series, healthcare workers reflect on the imminent patient surge that we have all been bracing for acr...
- Added: May 28, 2020
- Length: 31:14
Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 28:19
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 28:04
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
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
For Shannon McCarty, two things were crucial in her recovery: connections and timing. It started with timing – a key encounter just when she wanted...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 30:30
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 26:39
A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid ove...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 23:51
- Purchases: 1
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 1
The best ways to prevent young people from getting addicted don’t necessarily focus on the drugs themselves (forget “Just say no.”) Research shows ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2019
- Length: 29:58
From measuring the "size of the wiggle" to monitoring a "seismic moment", Geologist Lori Dengler discusses the scientific endeavor to quantify ear...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Recorded during CPhI World Wide, October 24 - 27, 2017 in Frankfurt Germany, Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo interview Charlie Johnson, the CEO of...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 26:42
Recorded during the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), being held June 2 - 6, 2017 in Chicago, Ill, the team ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 27:47
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 08:20
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 09:50
