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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
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 24:19
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
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
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
Six out of nine planetary systems key to the survival of the human species are under threat. Is Earth still a safe operating space for human beings...
- Added: Sep 24, 2023
- Length: 58:33
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
- Purchases: 1
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
What's wrong with dumping a million gallons of radioactive wastewater into the Hudson River?
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 3
PEER's Kyla Bennet talks about her whistleblowing experience at EPA and how it changed her life.
- Added: Aug 07, 2023
- Length: 28:23
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
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- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
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 ...
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- Added: May 26, 2023
- Length: 18:27
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 20:42
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
Patti and Doug discuss the week's news, then investigative reporter Justin Noble explains why fracking produces lots of radioactive waste.
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 28:27
Ellen Marks' husband spent years with a cell phone held against his head. Then he got brain cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:45
Debates in state capitols over how to fill gaps in the country's COVID-weary health workforce are reigniting long-standing turf wars among professi...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 18:42
A federal rule requires providers to start giving patients easier access to much more of their health care data, but it’s fraught with implementati...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 16:55
Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.
- Added: Sep 30, 2022
- Length: 14:24