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Stuck in the Bluff
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Congressman John E. Porter, Chair of Research!America
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Today on Conversations on Health Care - hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with former Congressman John E. Porter - who oversaw a drama...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Beverly Malone, Chief Executive Officer of the National League for Nursing which...

Bought by WRIR and KRZA


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:50
  • Purchases: 2
Governor Michael Leavitt, Founder of Leavitt Partners
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with former Utah Governor Michael Leavitt, who was also Secretary of the Department of He...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Harvey Fineberg, President of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Ardis Hoven, President of the American Medical Association
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ardis Dee Hoven, President of the American Medical Association, the largest and ...

Bought by WRIR and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Professor Timothy Jost, Washington and Lee University School of Law
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Timothy Jost, Attorney and Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Kentucky Governor Steven Beshear, the only Southern Governor choosing to both expand...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Brookings Institution
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Farzad Mostashari, Visiting Fellow at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Refor...

Bought by KZYX, WRIR, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fracking: a small town deals with big oil
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Pennsylvania farmer sees fracking's effects on farms., Credit: Credit Under CC license from Flickr user Public Herald
Hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as “fracking,” could be a revenue bonanza for California. The nation’s largest reserve of deep-rock oil is in ...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 08:33
Dr. Kavita Patel, Brookings Institution and Bipartisan Policy Cente
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Kavita Patel, Managing Director of Delivery System Reform and Clinical Transformation at the Brookings ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRIR, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Aug 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
Senate Immigration Bill Calls For A Drone-Patrolled Border
From: Fronteras Desk
Series: Fronteras: Immigration Reform
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To secure the border, the Senate committee says we need more drones. But it has been widely reported that drones on the border are ineffective.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:12
Patrick Miller, Founder of the All-Payer Claims Database Council
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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Mark and Margaret speak with Patrick Miller, MPH, founder of the All Payer Claims Database Council at the University of New Hampshire's Institute f...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
2 Minute Teach-In on the Keystone XL Pipeline
From: Liz Myers
Series: 2 Minute Teach-In
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2 Minute Teach-In on the Keystone XL Pipeline gives facts you need to know about the proposed pipeline.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
Engineering Change: Why STEM matters
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. Why does STEM matter, and why are women and minorities being targeted? This is the first in a series ta...

Bought by WJCT and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jan 29, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Lygeia Ricciardi, Acting Director of Consumer eHealth, Office of the National Coordinator at HHS
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Lygiea Ricciardi, Acting Director of Consumer e-Health at the Office of the National Coordinator at the Dep...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 24:57
A Narrow Window for Toads
From: Sarah Bromer
Caption: Couch's Spadefoot Toads, Credit: Cecil Schwalbe
When summer monsoons come to the southwest, abundant runoff leads to major problems for cities—streets flood and temporary ponds appear that serve ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
Dr. David Cutler, Harvard Health Care Economist on the economics of health reform
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government speaks about the economics of the Affordable Care Act, healt...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 24:57
Researchers Call Oil Spills and Climate Change a Devastating Combination
From: Richard Ziglar
Series: GulfWatch: Stories about the ongoing effects of the BP Oil Spill from KRVS
Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
Prince Albert II of Monaco Discusses Climate Change and Environment
From: National Press Club
Series: From the National Press Club
Caption: HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco, Marquis of Baux, speaks at a National Press Club luncheon on November 30, to discuss the environment and climate change. H.S.H. the Prince will be in Washington, D.C., for the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Antarcti, Credit: Noel St. John
Prince Albert II of Monaco Discusses Climate Change and Environment

  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 54:00
Overtreatment: How health care makes us sick
From: Nathanael Johnson
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The health-care debate is focused on quantity: how many people – and how much care they will get. But perhaps quality, rather than quantity of care...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 5
Rocketing Ahead
From: Richard Paul
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How the Democrats rode Sputnik to the White House in a campaign that forever changed science, technology and academia in America.

Bought by KUT, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, Spokane Public Radio, Nevada Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
This I Believe - Paul Farmer
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Paul Farmer believes heath care is a human right-and he's devoted his life to making that a reality.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KBGA 89.9 FM


  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 3
India-Ukraine: Containing (and Expanding) the Nuclear Sphere
From: The Stanley Foundation
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Simon Marks explores the multi-faceted and often contradictory approaches that successive US governments have adopted toward non-proliferation.

  • Added: May 25, 2007
  • Length: 11:01
Stem Cell Debate
From: Richard Beattie
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The debate on Stem Cell Research

  • Added: Nov 14, 2005
  • Length: 10:28