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Alabama Legislature Poised to Add More Barriers to Absentee Voting, Claiming ‘Ballot Harvesting,’ Despite No Evidence
- Added: Mar 11, 2024
- Length: 01:30
In this podcast episode, we talk to the longtime PBS NewsHour host about her career and next steps.
- Added: Nov 01, 2023
- Length: 16:45
Tight Labor Market, Demographics, Health Concerns and Harassment Contribute to Shortages of Poll Workers Around the U.S.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 32:48
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Recent Bank Failures Demand Tougher Federal Regulation, interview with Jam...
- Added: Mar 22, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
There’s a severe shortage of people to care for older Americans in their homes and nursing facilities. And it’s only expected to get worse.
Could ...
- Added: Oct 20, 2022
- Length: 21:23
It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new pla...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 22:50
Vending machines for the homeless.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Feb 28, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
In our first Call Your Elders conversation, Haitian-American producer Florence Barrau-Adams checks in on her parents, Monique and Eric, to see how ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 07, 2020
- Length: 14:18
- Purchases: 1
Normally, Rachel Gemara is an oncology nurse at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But back in March, she was one of a handful of nurses tr...
- Added: Aug 05, 2020
- Length: 06:35
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
Joe Newman is 107 years old. He was 5 during the flu pandemic of 1918. Today, he lives in a senior apartment complex in Sarasota, Florida with his ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 05:23
Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 28:19
As we approach the shortest days of the year, we take a longing look at the therapeutic aspects of daylight. One researcher found that light therap...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2016
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 3
The dreaded bacteria C. difficile has a way of spreading through a local health system, causing debilitating diarrhea and thousands of deaths a yea...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WNIN, and WABE
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 3
The original Before I Die Festival was held in Cardiff, Wales in 2013, and the idea has since spread to the U.K. and now, Indianapolis.
The purpos...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, and WNIN
- Added: Apr 27, 2016
- Length: 03:37
- Purchases: 3
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
Doctors Medical Center is the biggest public hospital and is closing on April 21, 2015.
- Added: May 01, 2015
- Length: 03:46
The main prayer hall at Gurdwara Sahib Fremont, the Fremont Sikh temple, is a cavernous room. A beautiful marble center aisle leads to an altar, wh...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 08:22
This week on Interchange, host Alycin Bektesh speaks with Mela Hatchett and Mary Boutain of the Area 10 Agency on Aging about the changing percepti...
Bought by WNED Buffalo
- Added: Dec 31, 2013
- Length: 59:07
- Purchases: 1
On Thursday September 26, 2013 IU Health hosted an evidence based seminar on Aging. The talk was broad-ranging, covering topics of longevity, genet...
- Added: Oct 23, 2013
- Length: 57:34
Older people are particularly juicy targets for swindlers and con artists, and the problem's getting worse as more Americans get older.
- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 04:58
Jaime Sweany gives a short history of the Endwright Center and talks about the programs and impact the center hopes to make in helping the elderly ...
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 05:03
According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, state agencies around the country say they are seeing an increase in reports of abuse of elderly p...
- Added: Aug 12, 2013
- Length: 09:31
A provision in the immigration reform proposal would allow wealthy retirees to stay longer in this country without a visa. This could be a boon to ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2013
- Length: 03:51