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Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly tur...
- Added: Jun 12, 2024
- Length: 24:06
A group of nurses in Baltimore wants to bring basic care to every person in a neighborhood regardless of age, health, income or insurance. Can this...
- Added: Jun 10, 2024
- Length: 22:55
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
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
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
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Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
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
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 19:15
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
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
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- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
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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
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
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 16:32
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 20:42
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...
- Added: Mar 24, 2023
- Length: 24:21
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...
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- Added: Feb 03, 2023
- Length: 20:23
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After 20 years, Humira – the best selling drug of all time – is finally facing direct competition. Typically, once generic drugs arrive on a market...
- Added: Jan 27, 2023
- Length: 18:07
How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medica...
- Added: Jun 16, 2022
- Length: 19:57
The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 03:51
The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 17:33
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 17:28