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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
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...
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- 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...
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- Added: Nov 14, 2014
- Length: 07:55
- Purchases: 1
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