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Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess
From: Tradeoffs
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire
From: Tradeoffs
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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
787-Far Out
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg
In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Testing for Toxins with Leah Segedie
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:11
  • Purchases: 1
786-Comet 31
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Enke, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Glyphosate-Autism Connection
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
Why Are People Afraid of the Most Popular Opioid Addiction Treatment?
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Is Wireless Tech Making You Sick?
From: Doug Wood
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The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
782-Probing The Cosmic Web
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A Cosmic Thread, Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Feige Wang (University of Arizona)
In the past two decades astronomers have discovered that galaxies are not randomly distributed in space but rather occur along filaments of mass wi...

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Stink Over PFAS with Tracy Frisch
From: Doug Wood
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Scientist Dr. Tracy Frisch explains why spreading fertilizer from sewage sludge is a really bad idea.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 1
777-Psyche Bound
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On
From: Tradeoffs
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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
The EMS - Mold Connection with Dr. Sharon Goldberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Integrative health physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about helping her patients who suffer from Electromagnetic Sensitivity and how their symptom...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
770- Hycean Worlds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)
Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Spinning Science for Profit with Dr. Laura Vandenberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news headlines, Dr. Vandenberg talks about her work studying the techniques big companies use to undermine science and create doubt.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WRFA-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Oct 16, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Pollinators, Pesticides, and Politics with NRDC's Dan Raichel
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Attorney Dan Raichel talks about the scourge of neonic pesticides and what to do about them.

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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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
The Ocean is Telling Us - with Dr. Sandra Steingraber
From: Doug Wood
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Author and biologist Sandra Steingraber talks about the impact of fossil fuels on our oceans, ahead of the March to End Fossil Fuels.

  • Added: Sep 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:48
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Is This the End of Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Unwanted Chemicals in Every Plastic Bottle with Mike Belliveau
From: Doug Wood
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When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 28:11
Beware What You Wear with Alden Wicker
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news, author and investigative journalist Alden Wicker talks about toxic chemicals in the fashion industry.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:14
  • Purchases: 2
Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year
From: Tradeoffs
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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