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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
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 24:19
In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 24:29
Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...
- Added: Sep 24, 2023
- Length: 58:33
A federal rule requires providers to start giving patients easier access to much more of their health care data, but it’s fraught with implementati...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 16:55
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
North Carolina Voters Challenge GOP Rep. Cawthorn’s Right to Run for Congr...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
Bought by WFHB
- 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
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 04:18
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
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 03:52
Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 03:58
Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 04:10
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
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
COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:03
Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 04:21
In this episode, we explore California’s dynamic and shifting climate, which impacts so much across the Bay area, region, and state, including our ...
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- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Democrats Fail to Fight For Working Families in COVID-19 Emergency Relief ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
Data Reveals Alarming Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths Across the U.S.;...
- Added: Apr 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
