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798-Destination Enceladus

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more

Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?

From: Tradeoffs

A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

787-Far Out

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg

In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

5 ways America's Courts Could Change Health Care in 2024

From: Tradeoffs

Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...

783--Kacper’s Centaur

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE

Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

773-Discovery and Recovery

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA

New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On

From: Tradeoffs

One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

Can the U.S. Put an End to Surprise Ambulance Bills?

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.

Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?

From: Tradeoffs

Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...

756-Nice PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists conception asteroid Impact 65 million years ago, Credit: NASA (Don Davis)

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Cancer with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizon...

Bought by KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more

What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job

From: Tradeoffs

Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Progress and Pain Points in National Crisis Line's First Year

From: Tradeoffs

It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...

'No Place Else To Go': Inside a Former Abortion Clinic

From: Tradeoffs

One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...

752 Lunker

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Comet Johnson, Credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Jacqueline Fazekas was asteroid hunting , in the evening twilight, with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizo...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGHI and more

The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity

From: Tradeoffs

A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...

Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis

From: Tradeoffs

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...

When Home Becomes a Hospital

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.

The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...

Medicare Director Meena Seshamani on CMS' New Drug Pricing Powers

From: Tradeoffs

Medicare’s historic plan to slow prescription drug spending is taking shape. Last Thursday federal health officials began detailing how one of two ...

States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs

From: Tradeoffs

One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi

Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly

From: Tradeoffs

After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...

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