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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...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 19:15
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
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
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Topic 1: Cancer survivors unite, not to cure the disease, but to destroy myths that surround it and to improve life for survivors. Topic 2: The 201...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Covid-19 Specialist, Tampa General Emergency Room Medical Director Dr. Jason Wilson MD on The Front Lines- Just The Facts. How have things changed ...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The theme of this show is aging today.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2018
  • Length: 52:01
Caption: Ted Davis’ completed (and oddly shaped) Sudoku puzzles from a book called “Tricky Sudoku”
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 10:52
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For those who are dying, palliative medicine can go a long way in relieving the pain and suffering that often accompanies the final stages of death...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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First, society's pressure to be thin has morphed into a relentless cultural obsession with weight and body image. Harriet Brown has explores the id...

Bought by WCNY, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMXT, WCWP, KEDT and more


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 6
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Radio Curious pays tribute to the life of Dr. Sherwin Nuland, author of several books, including “How We Die,” and “The Wisdom of the Body,” with a...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
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First, every year, about 450,000 Americans diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The most helpful resource is experienced caregivers who have already...

Bought by WCNY and WCWP


  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
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The human genome may be the best avenue to date in the battle against Alzheimer’s Disease. It is also the focus of the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroima...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:22
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Dr. Ira Byock and Dr. David Healy, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Oliver Sacks and Dr. Julie Silver, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Lily Tomlin, and Adam Gazzaley, this week on Prime Time Radio.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Oct 12, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: http://www.alz.org/brain/09.asp, Credit: Alzheimer's Association
On this edition of "Culture Clique" Gerise Thompson, Regional director for the Alzheimer's Association visits with KQAL's Terese Tenseth. Chances a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 46:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alexander Karczmar, at 93, is an authority on the brain and a student of the self.
How our brains age, and why some people manage to cheat death and stay sharp.

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 20, 2010
  • Length: 13:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Dr Zieve talks with Harvard Medical School Professor John Ratey MD about using physical exercise to build and maintain a healthy brain and improve ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2010
  • Length: 47:38