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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
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
As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.
- Added: May 22, 2024
- Length: 18:33
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
- Purchases: 1
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
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
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
The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 14:07
We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.
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- Added: Mar 31, 2023
- Length: 16:55
- Purchases: 1
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 18:40
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
- Added: May 23, 2022
- Length: 03:47
Outreach workers go door-to-door in San Francisco's Bay View neighborhood to encourage more people to get the vaccine to reduce the risk and harm f...
- Added: Oct 21, 2021
- Length: 28:30
Two financial companies give advice to military family members about financial literacy and the new blended retirement system for service members.
- Added: Jun 25, 2018
- Length: 58:03
“It's the end of the world where we thought nature was an infinite resource and we could exploit it without consequence,” Professor Richard Weller ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 57:07
The unexpected origin of the sports bra.
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- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 17:10
- Purchases: 1
Imagine paradise where your senses explode with a banquet of color, or scents and flavors exicte, or where you experience exotic tranquility. That...
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- Added: Jan 03, 2016
- Length: 59:55
- Purchases: 1
World Footprints will criss-cross the United States from Las Vegas, and Jacksonville, Florida to Wisconsin and we will put a spotlight on the rich ...
- Added: Dec 06, 2015
- Length: 59:55
Noise pollution is a growing problem. Effecting everything from the lives of people living under airplane flight paths, to marine life. On this edi...
- Added: Mar 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Randall Coleman and I talk about the impact video game communities have on the development of new titles.
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 08:35
NYPulse is produced weekly at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism's Radio Studio in Times Square. The program explores the city's five boroughs ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2007
- Length: 15:00