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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
In Part 3 of our special series on 988, we go on the ground to hear from individuals working in their communities to prepare for America’s new ment...
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- Added: Jul 15, 2022
- Length: 21:29
- 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: 17:33
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
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.
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- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
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
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews:
North Carolina Voters Challenge GOP Rep. Cawthorn’s Right to Run for Congr...
- Added: Jan 26, 2022
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
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
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- 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
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
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
In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...
- Added: Apr 08, 2021
- Length: 03:52
Black Americans are twice as likely to die from COVID as white Americans. Despite this, polls show that African-Americans are less interested in re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 03:58
Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 04:10
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:00
