Side Effects News

Series produced by Side Effects Public Media

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Our health journalism collaborative explores the impacts of place, policy and economics on Americans' health.

Our health journalism collaborative explores the impacts of place, policy and economics on Americans' health. We're exploring the root causes of community-wide health problems--from chronic disease, mental to behavioral health to infant mortality—and on new research and initiatives working to prevent and solve these problems.


50 Pieces

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Federal Funding To Prevent Teen Pregnancy At Risk In Budget Battles
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Congress is fighting over another spending bill this week, and a grant program aimed at preventing teen pregnancy could lose its funding. A small...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:25
EPA’s New Farmworker Pesticide Standards Leave Unanswered Questions
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The people who grow and harvest our food risk exposure to toxic pesticides in the fields. This month the EPA published its first update to pesticid...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 03:25
Sickened By Smells, Retired Farmer Looks To Challenge Indiana’s Right To Farm Law
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As large, confined feeding operations, known as a CAFOs, have become increasingly common in farming states, so have heated battles over their effec...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 03:13
To Help Fight Addiction, New York Fights Health Insurers
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A 2008 federal law—the Mental Health Parity Act—requires insurers to cover mental health and addiction treatment as they would any other medical co...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Nov 19, 2015
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 1
Study: A Few Miles Can Have A Drastic Effect On Life Expectancy
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According to a report by the Fairbanks School of Public Health at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, people in the northern part of...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 28, 2015
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
One Rural County Leads the Way For Overdose Prevention in Missouri
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Caption: Pulaski County, Mo. officers take part in a training exercise , Credit: Rebecca Smith/ Side Effects Public Media
Over a year ago, Missouri legalized the use the heroin overdose antidote, naloxone, for use by law enforcement. Though police use of the drug has s...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:59
School Nurses Get Equipped To Reverse Overdoses
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Caption: Katie Serio, director of treatment and prevention at the Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse of Livingston County, N.Y., trains a group of school nurses to use the overdose antidote naloxone at Dansville High School., Credit: Michelle Faust
At the start of the year, some school districts are considering whether, they will stock a medication that can reverse an overdose. Since 2001, ove...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:14
To Address Domestic Violence, A Rural County Reaches Out To Teens Via Text
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People who work with victims of domestic violence think the best way to prevent violence is by teaching youth about healthy relationships. They hop...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:57
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Health Coverage Remains Out Of Reach For Many Low-Income Immigrants
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The uninsured rate in the US has dropped sharply down to 12 percent since the Affordable Care Act went into effect. But one group has been left out...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:16
Missouri Integrates Mental and Physical Health Care, Saving Money, Improving Health
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Missouri pioneered a system for integrating physical and mental health care to help the mentally ill stave off chronic disease. Recent data showed ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 03:29