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California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dale Stout is one of the first people to benefit from the additional housing supports in California’s new Medicaid initiative, CalAIM. , Credit: Ryan Levi
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
Inside Big Health Insurers' Side Hustle
From: Tradeoffs
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America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 26:58
Ronny Dawson discusses alien home invasion and contactee experiences
From: Ray Samuels
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In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 27:08
Dr. Peter McCullough - The Vaccine as the Manifest Destiny of the Pandemic
From: Ray Samuels
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In this explosive interview, cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough speaks to Dr. Sam Dubé as to why he, as well as a multitude of hi...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 01:18:30
For COVID Patients, Recovery is a Hurdle of Its Own
From: Lucas Woods
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Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 05:36
Infectious Agents and Alzheimer's Disease
From: Deborah Van Fleet
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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
Great Lakes may hold clues to beginning of life on Earth
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Diver prepares to head into waters of Lake Huron, Credit: Ben Thorp
Scientists are trying to figure out how Earth developed an atmosphere rich in oxygen. The answer to this billion-year-old mystery may lie in an unl...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, Interlochen Public Radio, WCPN, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 6
Inside a coal fired power plant
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: The Homer City Generating Station in Pennsylvania., Credit: Reid Frazier
How do you clean up 100,000 tons of air pollution? Boatloads of air filters, and some basic high school chemistry. This story takes the listener in...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:25
  • Purchases: 1
This Is Crohn's Disease
From: Jack Rodolico
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A patient with a nasty case of Crohn’s disease visits the best doctor in the world. That patient is this radio producer's wife.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Here and Now, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
  • Purchases: 4
The GMO Deception
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014
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Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Toxic Stress: Why Abuse and Trauma Linger into Adulthood
From: Karen Brown
Caption: Kathy Picard, Credit: Karen Brown
It's no surprise that early trauma can effect someone for years to come, but researchers in Massachusetts are starting to understanding what exactl...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPIK-LP, and KUOW


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 3
Overtreatment: How health care makes us sick
From: Nathanael Johnson
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The health-care debate is focused on quantity: how many people – and how much care they will get. But perhaps quality, rather than quantity of care...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 5
Part 5: The Science Behind Dioxin Delays
From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays
Caption: Imerman Park sits on the flood plain of the Tittabawassee River. Signs along the trail warn visitors about dioxin contamination in some of the park's soil., Credit: Shawn Allee
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
Preview: The Trail of Dioxin and Dow
From: The Environment Report
Caption: Residents are warned by Dow to 'enter at their own risk', Credit: Vincent Duffy
A Preview of the series "Dioxin Delays" by the Environment Report

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
Looking Back to Look Forward: Science and Technology
From: KNKX
Series: Looking Back to Look Forward: Election 2008
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Examining how science and technology are being discussed in the 2008 presidential campaign through the lens of history and current voters' attitudes

  • Added: Oct 13, 2008
  • Length: 07:52
How to Eat a Low-Carbon Diet
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Is local food necessarily low-carbon?

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KVNF, KGOU, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 4
Quest_Marine Protected Areas
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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One Fish, Two Fish: The Science of Protecting Sea Life

  • Added: Oct 26, 2007
  • Length: 04:45
Quest_Geothermal
From: KQED
Series: QUEST
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Solar and wind get all the press, but geothermal is poised for a comeback

Bought by WBEZ and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Prescription: Enviro-Knowledge for Doctors
From: The Environment Report
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Doctors short on knowledge about environmental exposures and disease.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2007
  • Length: 04:19
Nanotech Nervousness
From: The Environment Report
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Nanotechnology is being used in all kinds of products with little government regulation.

Bought by KUOW and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 18, 2007
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
American Chestnuts Roasting Again?
From: The Environment Report
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Saving the American Chestnut

  • Added: Nov 17, 2006
  • Length: 04:51
Wily Coyotes in the City
From: The Environment Report
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Coyotes are adapting to the city and preying on the animals they find there.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2006
  • Length: 04:22
Is the Price Right?
From: KUOW
Series: Food for Thought: Farmed Salmon and the Future
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Looking at the cost of purchasing farmed salmon versus wild salmon.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Personalized Medicine
From: Steve Herman
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Researchers in Japan are moving out of the lab the technology for personalized medicine

  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 06:25
Your Light Bulbs Waste Energy
From: The Environment Report
Series: Your Choice; Your Planet series
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Your incandescent light bulbs waste 95-percent of the energy they use.

Bought by KVNF, WMFE, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Connecticut Public (WNPR), and American Independence Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 5