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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
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 18:08
In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?
- Added: Feb 05, 2022
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 30:00
With Omicron cases surging, we speak with Dr. Kim Rhoads, who has been working on community-led responses since the beginning of the pandemic. She ...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week on the show: Hospitals, animals and miniature human organoids are showing us how omicron causes disease. And the news is mostly good.
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- Added: Jan 07, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: How do I keep the holidays focused on mistletoe instead of misinformation? And how will the pandemic play out in 2022?
- Added: Dec 19, 2021
- Length: 30:00
While hundreds of soft-story buildings in San Francisco have been upgraded by their owners to survive a major quake, city officials said 700 such b...
- Added: Dec 17, 2021
- Length: 29:33
Democrats are on the brink of passing a historic set of drug price reforms. How will they impact patients, insurers and the drug industry?
- Added: Nov 15, 2021
- Length: 18:21
Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.
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- Added: Nov 04, 2021
- Length: 22:32
- Purchases: 1
In this episode of The Onco’Zine Brief Peter Hofland, Ph.D. talks with Eyal Talor, Ph.D., a clinical immunologist with over 25 years of hands-on ma...
- Added: Nov 03, 2021
- Length: 48:50
Voting rights expert Dr. Michael Latner details the steps we need to take in the coming months to ensure free and fair elections in the US.
- Added: Nov 02, 2021
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 2
A new, international collaborative initiative called The Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection or PRECEDE Consortium, which includes more than 35 leadi...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 48:17
This week on the show: Like the COVID-19 vaccines? Then you'll love the way mRNA is being tried out on certain cancers. Also, a human stool sample...
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- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
A conversation between two people pushed in different directions by the pandemic — one who felt she had to walk away from her job in public health ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 17:42
Democratic lawmakers face tough compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill and its sweeping health care provi...
- Added: Oct 13, 2021
- Length: 12:49
This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2021
- Length: 30:00
Today's guests are Dr. Cathy Whitlock, Regents Professor of Paleoecology at Montana State University, and Dr. Steven Hostetler, Hydrologist at the ...
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- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:18
- Purchases: 3
Today's guest is Dr. Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics. Kimi is the Lead Wildfire and Natural Hazard Researcher at Headwaters where she also l...
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- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Global COVID Vaccination Inequity Crisis Demands Urgent Action; Indian Sch...
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- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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This week on the show: What can we learn from a bunch of rhesus macaques playing video games and 'choking' under the pressure? Also, it may be be...
- Added: Sep 18, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Are you the kind of person who takes the last piece of cake? Or would you leave it there for someone else instead? Also, we...
- Added: Sep 11, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: New research from Germany suggests that letting people choose whether or not to vaccinate may ultimately improve the overal...
- Added: Sep 03, 2021
- Length: 30:00
This week on the show: Get ready to roll up that sleeve again, because early data makes a clear case for a 3rd injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech va...
- Added: Aug 30, 2021
- Length: 30:00
