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Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 15, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
This week on the show: The stuff you breathe out can tell an enormous amount about your health — and intentions.
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Studies out of South Africa indicate that our natural immunity to Omicron might already be waning.
- Added: May 07, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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
This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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
San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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
You may not have seen them running through your yard, but just wait. Feral pigs are everywhere and they’re a growing problem. This week on Sea Chan...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 29:00
This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Communications strategist Sabrina Joy Stevens shares practical tips for shutting down disinformation online.
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 29:08
Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...
Bought by KUHF, KGUA, WMUU-LP, Maine Public Radio, KSQD Santa Cruz and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep ...
- Added: Mar 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
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
We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 18:18
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
This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.
- Added: Feb 18, 2022
- Length: 30:00
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
This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
