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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
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
Many healthcare services have been either cancelled or moved online due to the pandemic. Others are considered essential. But how do you decide wha...
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 03:41
When it comes to lifespan, do humans have a fixed finish line?
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, and KENW
- Added: Jun 30, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
Scientists discover a brain circuit that keeps us upright after stumbling.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 5
A little dopamine at the right moment is all muscles need to get moving.
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 5
More than 34 million Americans provide unpaid care to an older adult every year, according to AARP. Managing an aging parent’s health care can be c...
- Added: Jul 02, 2017
- Length: 07:40
ALS: a heartwrenching medical quandary for both doctors and patients. As research progresses, one local doctor takes a positive approach.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
People who feel younger than their chronological age are also less likely to die.
- Added: Dec 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Healthy people need the flu shot every year, especially to help protect those who are more vulnerable to complications from the virus.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.
- Added: Aug 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...
Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Apr 10, 2012
- Length: 03:36
- Purchases: 3
