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A Telehealth Report Card: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t
From: Tradeoffs
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As Congress figures out the future of telehealth, we get a reality check from a top researcher about what this care has and has not delivered.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2024
  • Length: 15:21
Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools
From: Tradeoffs
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Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
Ransomware Attacks: Bad for Hospitals, Deadly for Patients
From: Tradeoffs
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In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:29
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
From: Tradeoffs
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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 23:21
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line
From: Tradeoffs
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Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2022
  • Length: 25:04
  • Purchases: 1
The poison PFAS which is in most of us and wildlife!
From: Debra Grobman
Series: Green Under Pressure
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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
Distillery along Great Lakes turns booze into food – fish food
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: New York distillery and fish farm turns waste into supper, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Two companies in the Great Lakes region are teaming up for an unusual experiment in sustainability. They’re starting an aquaculture business. And a...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WBFO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2018
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 8
Experts push for more African-Americans in STEM fields
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Doctor Scott Williams, African American mathematician retired from the Unviersit at Buffalo, discusses what it's like working as an African American in the STEM field., Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON
Great Lakes states have produced several influential African-Americans in the sciences. There’s astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson – he’s from New ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WSKG and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 7
Move over Uber -- the Army's testing self-driving vehicles
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Decal on truck, Credit: Kevin Lavery, WKAR
The day of the driverless car is gaining ground...FAST. Autonomous vehicles have caught the attention of Tesla, Uber and Google. Now, add the U.S. ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCMU Michigan, WMUK and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 7
Planes, drone monitor harmful algae in Lake Erie
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo captured by Ansari 9-24, Credit: Dr. Rafat Ansari
Algae blooms continue to color western Lake Erie a deep green. Now researchers and scientists want to know more about toxins produced by the algae....

Bought by KPIK-LP, WBFO, WOSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 9
How can cities keep sewage out of Great Lakes? Go underground
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo of the finished Euclid Creek Tunnel, the first of 7., Credit: Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Combined sewer overflows are common in over 700 cities and towns in the country. Several cities are under consent decrees to solve this problem --...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, WXXI Rochester, WCPN, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 5
Got pollution? Canadian city puts it in giant box
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: John Gee with Environment and Climate Change Canada stands on a platform overlooking the Randle Reef restoration project., Credit: Veronica Volk
Imagine a huge steel box – whose lid is 10 football fields across. It's being built in Hamilton's harbor on the western end of Lake Ontario. It’s d...

Bought by WMUK, WRVO Public Media, North Country Public Radio, WLPR , WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 8
Great Lakes targeted for offshore wind farms
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Lorry Wagner, CEO of LEEDCo, Credit: Elizabeth Miller
The nation's first offshore wind farm recently began operating in New England, and developers now are eying vast body of water: the Great Lakes. Pr...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUVO, WCMU Michigan, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 8
Push for wind farms along Great Lakes sparks controversy
From: Great Lakes Today
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Apex Clean Energy plans to build dozens of wind turbines across the Great Lakes states -- including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois – to take ...

Bought by WCPN, Delta College Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WBFO


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dana Marlowe and Accessibility Partners: Providing Access for the Disabled
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Tune into our Innovate CSR interview with Dana Marlowe, president and cofounder of Accessibility Partners, to learn how the company works with gove...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 38:07
Monisha Kapila and ProInspire: Improving Nonprofit and Social Leaders
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Monisha Kapila, founder and CEO of ProInspire, discusses the company's work with nonprofit, public and social enterprise groups to develop leaders ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 33:00
Part Four: The Unspoken Crisis
From: KBIA
Series: Shortage in Rich Land
Caption: Marylouisa Cantu (left) with her case worker Lucretia Cox (center) and mother Star Tafolla, Credit: Bram Sable-Smith
Almost 17 percent of the babies born here in Dunklin County are born premature. According to data from the World Health Organization, if this were ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:10
In an old church, the Internet Archive stores our digital history
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Internet Archive, San Francisco., Credit: Under CC license from Flickr user Beatrice Murch
In San Francisco’s Richmond District, where Geary Boulevard meets Park Presidio, there stands a bright, white, defunct Christian Science church. Th...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 2
Asteroid miners prepare to harvest outer space
From: Audrey Quinn
Caption: Rick Tumlinson of Deep Space Industries and Dr. Glenn Lightsey discuss future missions at the Texas Spacecraft Lab, Credit: Audrey Quinn
It currently costs $10,000 a pound to transport material from Earth into space. If humans want to live in space someday, those transport costs alon...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 4
Will we be safe when our cars drive themselves?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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You may have already seen some of these driverless cars zipping around Bay Area roads. Automotive scientists predict similar cars will be available...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 1
Sailing The High Seas 2.0
From: Jason Albert
Caption: Wing sails on San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jason Albert
90% of the world's goods are carried by cargo ships. And the oceans they sail on are streaming with wind: High tech wing sails used on America's Cu...

Bought by Hark!, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 5
Podcasting Patent Threatens Independent Media
From: JP Davidson
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Personal Audio LLC owns a patent that it says covers the entire concept of podcasting. Podcasters are being asked to pay licensing fees for the rig...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:36
  • Purchases: 2
Senate Immigration Bill Calls For A Drone-Patrolled Border
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Fronteras: Immigration Reform
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To secure the border, the Senate committee says we need more drones. But it has been widely reported that drones on the border are ineffective.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:12