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This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A deep exploration of the urban-rural divide and how one group is trying to bring both sides together
- Added: Nov 22, 2020
- Length: 28:19
Like many low-wage immigrant workers in Los Angeles, Aleja "Lee" Plaza spends her days taking care of the elderly — emptying bedpans, giving sponge...
- Added: Jul 27, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Like many kids who come from working class immigrant families, Kateri Gutierrez felt a lot of pressure to get ahead. After a brief stint trying to ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2019
- Length: 07:05
Generation Z has been called a lot of things: The internet generation. The Instagram generation. And as some say: the activist generation. Claire H...
- Added: Jun 24, 2019
- Length: 08:29
A rural pocket of Northern California is seeing some of the highest rates of suicide in the state. This project explores the mental health crisis i...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 01:05:14
There is no chocolate industry without Africa. African cocoa is bountiful and painful, cyclical and dynamic. In this episode, we get two snapshots ...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 42:08
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...
- Added: Feb 15, 2017
- Length: 08:20
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the discovery of the hepatitis C virus. Since then, people with hepatitis C have had limited – and not very...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Nov 25, 2014
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
In just a few weeks, another pharmaceutical company will likely win FDA approval for a new drug to cure hepatitis C. That makes three breakthrough ...
- Added: Nov 14, 2014
- Length: 07:52
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Series: At the Crossroads: The Rise of Hepatitis C and the Fight to Stop It
Baby boomers make up the majority of the estimated five million people who have hepatitis C. Most caught the disease – from sharing needles, or a b...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Nov 14, 2014
- Length: 07:55
- Purchases: 1
The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 06:07
We're checking in on our Future Docs, Sarah and Peter, who've nearly reached the mid-way point of their second year of medical school. Reporter Kri...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 07:15
After medical school, most doctors go through a kind of on-the-job training called residency. Residency programs have been around for a while, but ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 03:39
In the final piece in the series "Future Docs," second year students Sarah and Peter are about to begin their third year in medical school, leaving...
- Added: Jul 07, 2013
- Length: 05:46
Medical school isn’t what it used to be. Budding doctors have to learn more and study harder than they ever have. And changes in the health care sy...
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 03:37
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)
Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KERA, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
There are now over 400 "dead zones" in coastal oceanic waters with varying degrees of oxygen-deprivation.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
The revolving door between the federal government and its favorite contractors sets up abuses.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Scientists predict fish stocks worldwide will collapse by mid-century unless drastic changes are made to humankind's impact on the oceans.
- Added: Sep 20, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Three of the world’s most bustling cities … what makes them tick, and what their citizens are doing to improve life on the street.
- Added: Feb 28, 2009
- Length: 29:55
