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We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Mar 03, 2022
- Length: 18:18
The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here to stay, even with vaccines. In this seg...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 04:07
This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...
- Added: Feb 21, 2021
- Length: 29:00
As the cost of insulin continues to skyrocket patients are dying from trying to ration their medication. It's an extreme example, but not unusual -...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The stuff in Scotchguard and Teflon coatings is poisoning water supplies and never goes away It's even been found in animals on the North Pole! Wit...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 05:27
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
Typically turning 18 has also meant aging out of the system. So no more reimbursements to subsidize care. Studies show foster youth lacking financi...
Bought by Accessible Media Inc.
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Over 2 million Syrians have been displaced by that country's ongoing civil war. Neighboring countries are overwhelmed with refugees. So where else ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2013
- Length: 29:00
When city budgets are cut, public transportation is often on the chopping block; routes and lines serving those who need the service most, can be t...
- Added: Mar 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Gang injunctions are a controversial crime fighting tool that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last resort for comm...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more.
- Added: Jul 25, 2011
- Length: 12:56
News and features of the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more.
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 08:33
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
From a grassroots toxic canal clean up to a long-standing watershed war, we’ll hear from U.S. water stewards across the country, working to protect...
Bought by CKMO
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
I spent the first three days of my senior year of college in Minnesota watching Rhode Island's Republicans get rowdy at the site of a woman from Al...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 05:59
Just as Gen. David Petraeus was rolling out "soft-power" tactics in Iraq, WBRU News aired this feature on the community end of Providence's communi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 07:12
- Added: May 01, 2009
- Length: 28:56
