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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Climate Connections April 15 - May 10, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, WNIN, KTSW 89.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more

Climate Connections March 18 - April 12, 2024

From: ChavoBart Digital Media
Series: Climate Connections

This month on Climate Connections snowmobiles don’t have to be noisy and polluting, the plastics industry’s carbon footprint has doubled in the pas...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, WNIJ, WTJU, KTSW 89.9 and more

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’

From: Tradeoffs

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 ...

Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

From: Tradeoffs

Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

The Skin We're In

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore the skin we are in. We are joined by Dr. Holly McGee and Dr. Nina Jablonski, who have written a book t...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTNA, KECG, RadioFreePalmer, KDLG and more

2024-02-05: The Skin We're In, 2/5/2024

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

This time on The Children’s Hour, we explore the skin we are in. We are joined by Dr. Holly McGee and Dr. Nina Jablonski, who have written a book t...

Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?

From: Tradeoffs

Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.

Our Shaking Planet

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

Our planet is alive, and not just because it enables life to live here, but also the land on Earth is constantly shifting and moving. In Kids Crew ...

Bought by KTNA, KRSC, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KECG and more

20240115: Our Shaking Planet, 1/15/2024

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

Our planet is alive, and not just because it enables life to live here, but also the land on Earth is constantly shifting and moving. In Kids Crew ...

231215: This Year in Climate: 2023, 12/15/2023

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

It’s been a year of weather extremes – again. But there’s also been cause for renewed hope about our climate future. On the heels of this year’s i...

Just Look Up

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

Astronomy begins at home, just looking up and seeing what we see. The Kids Crew meet with Professor Raman Prinja, Head of Astronomy and Physics at ...

Bought by KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

20231211: Just Look Up, 12/11/2023

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

Astronomy begins at home, just looking up and seeing what we see. The Kids Crew meet with Professor Raman Prinja, Head of Astronomy and Physics at ...

20231127: Coyotes, 11/27/2023

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about a canine that is thriving across North America: coyotes. They may look like wild dogs, but we lear...

Coyotes

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about a canine that is thriving across North America: coyotes. They may look like wild dogs, but we lear...

Bought by KTNA, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC and more

Age Gracefully: Unveiling Wellness Secrets with Prevention Magazine Interview Series, January 2024

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Not Old Better Show, Prevention Magazine Healthy Living Series

Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Prevention Magazine Interview Series

🎙️ Dive deeper with our Prevention Magazine Interview Series on The Not Old Better Show! 🌟 🍏 Explore the link between diet and anxiety - practical ...

Ticket to the Moon

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

A Moonlight Serenade with celebrations of Apollo Astronaut Frank Borman and First Lady Roselynn Carter featuring music from Telephones And Rubber B...

More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Blooming Underground with Maia Williams

From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat

KQAL's Jiovani Bermudez speaks with local artist Maia Williams about her new work, Blooming Underground. Original air date: 11/08/22

Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong

From: Tradeoffs

A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Confusing Medicare ads are everywhere!, Credit: Leslie Walker/Tradeoffs

Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries. Private...

Sloths

From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour

Learn all about sloths with author Georgeanne Irvine from the San Diego Zoo, and biologist Sam Trull from the Sloth Institute in Manuel Antonio Cos...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, KSTK and more

Ransomware Attacks: Bad for Hospitals, Deadly for Patients

From: Tradeoffs

In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

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