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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 24:06
From: Tradeoffs
One doctor debates whether to work for the nation's largest insurance company after it purchased the independent practice she worked for in Oregon.
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 17:43
After the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, which wound down 50 years ago this year, many Hmong families fled Laos and eventually settl...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 06:02
The U.S. government spread the chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange over 10 million acres of jungle in Vietnam during the war that wound down 5...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 05:36
A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 22:55
Investigative reporters talk with Patti and Doug about artificial turf fields and why an unusual number of Phillies baseball players developed brai...
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- Added: Jun 09, 2024
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In What Is Owed? from GBH News, reporter Saraya Wintersmith seeks to understand what reparations might look like in one of the oldest cities in Ame...
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- Added: Jun 07, 2024
- Length: 54:00
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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
Just 20 years ago, hydrogen cars and battery electric cars (EVs) were pretty evenly matched as clean alternatives to gas-powered cars. But today, E...
- Added: May 02, 2024
- Length: 10:08
The pandemic exposed stark inequalities around the world, especially in terms of vaccine access, leading to the deaths of untold thousands in the g...
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- Added: Apr 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
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- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
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🍄✨ Exciting News for Nature and Wellness Enthusiasts here on the Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Interview Series ✨🍄
Join us for a grou...
- Added: Apr 12, 2024
- Length: 24:30
Wind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildli...
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 06:41
In the terrible Texas cold front of 2021, some wind turbines stopped producing electricity. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable s...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 07:03
Plants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of foss...
- Added: Mar 28, 2024
- Length: 08:23
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
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...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 18:02
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Key court decisions in 2024 about prescription drug prices, abortion bans, gender affirming care and the Affordable Care Act could change the way h...
- Added: Feb 02, 2024
- Length: 18:49
The United States has a goal to power the country with 100% clean electricity by 2035. Unfortunately, our energy regulations are not set up to make...
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 14:31
We all want to live full, healthy lives. But climate change is threatening a growing number of people’s lives and well-being. Professor of public h...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 11:20
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If you live in the U.S. Mountain West, the Pacific Coast of the Americas, or large parts of Australia or southern Europe, there’s a good chance a m...
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- Added: Feb 01, 2024
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Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 28:50
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