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There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...

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  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 18:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:33
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During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:21
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Season 1, Episode 14 Here’s what it’s like when you’re released from prison. You’re given a $20 debit card and a bus ride home. You need housing, ...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 09:21
Caption: Danielle Gabriel and her daughter stand vigil outside West County Detention Facility., Credit: Photo by Stephen Southern.
Every month, Alex Aldana stands in protest in front of the West County Detention Facility in Richmond. It’s a medium-security jail that holds men a...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The discount supermarket Grocery Outlet is opening a new store in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley neighborhood
Almost 30 million Americans live a mile or more away from a supermarket. That may not sound very far, but for the five million plus who don’t have ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dan Paul with his sculpture. Paul and the other Bulb residents face eviction soon, Credit: Mary Rees
On the west side of the city of Albany, there’s a peninsula jutting into San Francisco Bay. It’s beautiful there, right on the water, with hiking t...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 08:25
Caption: Hope Fox of Oakland and her daughter, Pat McKern, Credit: Credit Visakha Som
The cost of living in the Bay Area has risen sharply, especially in the past few years, but the federal benefits that many seniors rely on are ofte...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
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In an age of big data, even police departments are getting in on the action. In Los Angeles, the LAPD are using software for what they call “predic...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 06:37
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Noelle, Luke and Dan
Complicated commercial development can have as many layers of financing as Turkish pastry has layers of phyllo.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 28:31
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Veterans are entering college in droves thanks to the new GI bill -- but they often need help adjusting to campus life, and not all colleges are pr...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2009
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: An Afghan security man asks local people to get out of the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2009., Credit: (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Features on the war in Afghanistan.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
Caption: Bike Sharing Kiosk in Paris
A piece on Boston's plan to create a fleet of city bicycles for public use.

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  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
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This story explores what life is like in the US working without papers

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2008
  • Length: 04:40
  • Purchases: 3