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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
🍄✨ Exciting News for Nature and Wellness Enthusiasts here on the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series ✨🍄
Join us for a grou...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 24:30
Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 06:41
In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 07:03
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
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
Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 18:02
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We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
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If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 13:08
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 28:50
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Refrigerants are in every refrigerator, freezer and air conditioner, and the world is on track to make a lot more of them in the years to come. The...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 14:21
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Carbon dioxide—CO2—is the greenhouse gas you’ve probably heard most about. But it turns out, methane is an incredibly important greenhouse gas too....
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 12:02
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You probably know that today’s climate change is caused by certain gases—what scientists call greenhouse gases—that human activity has been adding ...
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- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 13:36
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🎙️ Dive deeper with our Prevention Magazine Interview Series on The Not Old Better Show! 🌟
🍏 Explore the link between diet and anxiety - practical ...
- Added: Nov 24, 2023
- Length: 28:50
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
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 19:15
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
Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 21:56
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
After years of study, a scientific panel proposes a formal definition of the Anthropocene, naming the spot where humanity’s fingerprints are best o...
- Added: Jul 17, 2023
- Length: 58:05
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
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 23:21
If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?
- Added: May 15, 2023
- Length: 54:18
