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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...
- Added: Jun 23, 2022
- Length: 17:59
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57
We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 03:53
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
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
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
After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...
- Added: Apr 14, 2022
- Length: 22:11
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...
- Added: Mar 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:33
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
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 22:47
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
Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1
A conversation between two people pushed in different directions by the pandemic — one who felt she had to walk away from her job in public health ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 17:42
Democratic lawmakers face tough compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill and its sweeping health care provi...
- Added: Oct 13, 2021
- Length: 12:49
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Global COVID Vaccination Inequity Crisis Demands Urgent Action; Indian Sch...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and WKPW
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
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
This week on the show: If you don't vaccinate, you will get COVID-19 at some point. That's a fact. There's also the social argument. But a lot of ...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Topic 1: Space Debris; Topic 2: Wilderness Survival; Topic 3: Robot Sweating
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 51:44
- Purchases: 3
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
