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Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
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
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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
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Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Warren, Rhode Island is one of the smallest towns in the smallest state — but when it comes to dealing with climate change, it has big plans. Locat...

Bought by WRFA-LP and Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
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Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 16:16
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:51
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
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A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
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We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 16:53
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More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
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Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?

  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 18:21
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Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2021
  • Length: 22:32
  • Purchases: 1
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John Hoffman and Peter Staley talk science, politics, and telling the truth.

  • Added: Sep 18, 2021
  • Length: 27:55
Caption: Duke's Gibson, Indiana power plant is the second largest coal burner in the nation., Credit: Photo by John Blair.
With the IPCC's most recent report clanging "Code Red for Humanity" we revisit our show with Jason Moore, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life, ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:21
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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
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
Caption: Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 3
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COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Black people and people of color in the United States. In this episode, we hear from psychiatric mental he...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2020
  • Length: 10:09
Caption: Tirana Vertical Forest designed by Stefano Boeri
Some think that “green growth” would be unlikely to stop global warming, and would only worsen numerous other global environmental crises. While a ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:09
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mona Siddiqui, Chief Data Officer at the US Department of Health and Human Servi...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jul 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy at Harvar...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:30:00
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter remember a giant who has influenced much of the landscape of health economics and policy in Ame...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
Caption: Les Jamieson, Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson bring the big questions about physics to the public.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WETS, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3