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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
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
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Over the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care,...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:02
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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
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Series
The Not Old Better Show, Smithsonian Associates Inside Science Interview Series

  • Added: Dec 01, 2023
  • Length: 32:35
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A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2023
  • Length: 16:39
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In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 24:29
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⁠Host Diana Korte speaks with Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe, author of “THE LOST SUPPER. Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of th...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:49
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 21:56
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Jess speaks with Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about the influence of fossil fuel dark money in politics today.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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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 ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 23:21
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Award-winning African ecologist Paula Kahumbu, co-author of SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS, is one of the world’s preeminent advocates for elephant conse...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:31
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EMDR & Trauma with Psychotherapist Susie Gurfein. Breaking generational tendencies and patterns in jobs, relationships, and more with psychotherapy...

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 27:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Performance Coach to Big Wave Surf Champion Laird Hamilton, Olympic Skater Zion Wright, and LPGA Pro Golfer Lexie Thompson-John Denney, Big Wave Su...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2023
  • Length: 26:14
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In Marc Schultz's THE GOOD LIFE, what makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? A good life? The simple but surprising answer is: relationships. T...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 10:01
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LONGPATH by futurist Ari Wallach is about a mindset that looks at a future where new ways aren’t quite here yet and the old ways don’t work anymor...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2023
  • Length: 10:13

  • Added: Dec 29, 2022
  • Length: 26:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Averting Devastation and Building a Resilient Future post Hurricane Ian with Valerie Slack Architect. Founder of Native Design and President of The...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 26:14
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Captains for Clean Water on The Front Lines of the War to Save Planet Earth. We have a conversation with Captain Chris Wittman, Co-Founder, that tr...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 26:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 16:16
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Colorado-based Paul Holes, author of UNMASKED, specializes in cold case and serial predator crimes. He began his career in the Contra Costa County ...

  • Added: May 06, 2022
  • Length: 09:52
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We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 16:53
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The Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute with Craig Robbins MD on Pediatric and Adult Limb Lengthening, Corrective Surgery and more

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 26:15
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San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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Dr. Erin, Doctor of Divinity, talks Spiritual Psychology, Deep Trauma Healing, Metaphysical Science, World Events, and More

  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 25:31