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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 ...

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

Sugar Sugar -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-07

From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show

Maria Dello discusses health issues arising from excessive sugar consumption.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and RadioFreePalmer

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.

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...

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...

Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage

From: Tradeoffs

Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...

The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Subsurface granite on the Moon? The anatomy of a lunar hot spot

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Matt Siegler from the Planetary Science Institute shares his team's surprising findings about the granite formation that might lie beneath Compton-...

Bought by KIYU-FM, KVSC, RadioStPete Florida, WJCU, KWMR and more

An essential ingredient for life in the oceans of Enceladus

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Chris Glein, a lead scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, joins Planetary Radio to talk about the discovery of phosphorus in the oceans of...

Bought by KIYU-FM, WJCU, WMUU-LP, RadioStPete Florida, KRZA and more

What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job

From: Tradeoffs

Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Mars' Axial Tilt: A Key to Gully Formation

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caltech and Brown University’s Jay Dickson joins Planetary Radio to discuss the mysterious formation of gullies on Mars.

Bought by KVSC, KIYU-FM, WJCU, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WMUU-LP and more

Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Sam Birch, an assistant professor at Brown University, explores what we know about the alluvial rivers of Earth, Mars, and Saturn's moon Titan.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

This Week in Water for July 9, 2023

From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water

Painkillers Are Derived from Crude Oil—But That Could Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT and more

Humans to Mars by the 2030s? NASA Associate Administrators weigh in

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: NASA's Curiosity rover captured this view from atop Mont Mercou, a rock formation at the base of Mt. Sharp on Mars, during its 3086th sol, Martian day, of exploration., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill

Planetary Radio, Mat Kaplan, senior communications adviser at The Planetary Society, takes us to the 2023 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington, D.C....

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM and more

2Fast 2Curious: Finding the source of the fast solar wind

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

James Drake from the University of Maryland joins Planetary Radio to talk about the latest results from NASA's Parker Solar Probe as it soars close...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KWMR and more

The disappearing act of Saturn's young rings

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Richard Durisen and Paul Estrada join Planetary Radio to discuss their research on the surprisingly recent formation of Saturn's rings and why they...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KVSC, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance

From: Tradeoffs

Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Adv...

Bought by WABE

This Week in Water for June 18, 2023

From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water

Spot On—Getting the Ground Truth About Severe Weather. How spotters help the National Weather Service warn the public about hazardous storms.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more

The oldest organic molecules in the known Universe

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Astronomers using JWST detected the oldest and most distant complex organic molecules yet in the galaxy SPT0418-47. The galaxy is over twelve billion light-years away but from our perspective on Earth, it is directly behind a foreground galaxy that is onl, Credit: J. Spilker / S. Doyle, NASA, ESA, CSA

Justin Spilker joins Planetary Radio to talk about his team’s detection of the oldest organic molecules in the known Universe.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KPRG, KIYU-FM, KVSC, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more

Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2

From: Tradeoffs

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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