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Lead - The Pernicious Poison
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Doug and Patti speak with "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:22
  • Purchases: 1
2 - Keeping People Safe
From: Tradeoffs
Series: The Fifth Branch
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How do you keep crisis responders and the people they’re helping safe? We look at HEART’s impact on the safety of Durham residents in crisis, the ...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 36:46
1 - Convincing the Cops
From: Tradeoffs
Series: The Fifth Branch
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How do you convince police officers that it makes sense to send unarmed mental health workers to some 911 calls? (Part 1 of a 3-part series.)

  • Added: Aug 06, 2024
  • Length: 33:59
The Science of Violence
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
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After the recent assassination attempt on former President Trump, Jess talks with Dr. Garen Wintemute, Director of the Violence Prevention Research...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Eco Report - June 21, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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In this week's feature report, WFHB News Correspondents Noelle Herhusky-Schneider, Kade Young and Madison Stratton investigate Indiana's efforts t...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2024
  • Length: 30:38
How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?
From: Tradeoffs
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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2024
  • Length: 24:06
A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
From: Tradeoffs
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A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2024
  • Length: 22:55
92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned
From: Tradeoffs
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As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

  • Added: May 22, 2024
  • Length: 18:33
The BabySafe Project with Patti Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After discussing the environmental news, Patti & Doug talk about how and why to protect your baby from wireless radiation.

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  • Added: May 13, 2024
  • Length: 29:10
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Global Plastics Crisis with Dr. Leo Trasande
From: Doug Wood
Series: Grassroots
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After the news, Dr. Trasande, a delegate to the UN conference on plastics, talks about plastic as a human health issue.

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 28:09
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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.

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
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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
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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
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
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This Week in Water for January 7, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Whales Might Help Us Communicate with Extraterrestrials. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 06:11
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This Week in Water for December 10, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Phase Down? Or Phase Out? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Dec 10, 2023
  • Length: 06:05
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This Week in Water for November 19, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Going Nuclear in a Small Way. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 05:58
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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
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
Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong
From: Tradeoffs
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
This Week in Water for October 15, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Fireproofing Your Home…with Fungi? That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2023
  • Length: 06:10
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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
764 Green Airglow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Green Airglow Over Colorado, Credit: Aaron Watson
The natural night sky is alive with its own lights. In addition to celestial sources often there is natural night sky airglow powered by space wea...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
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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