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A Telehealth Report Card: What’s Worked and What Hasn’t

From: Tradeoffs

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.

92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

From: Tradeoffs

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

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

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Can China Erase History – and Democracy – in Hong Kong

From: Mateo Schimpf

Life is changing quickly for people in Hong Kong

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’

From: Tradeoffs

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 ...

Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

From: Tradeoffs

Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong

From: Tradeoffs

A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

Ransomware Attacks: Bad for Hospitals, Deadly for Patients

From: Tradeoffs

In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage

From: Tradeoffs

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...

Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2

From: Tradeoffs

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

The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act

From: Tradeoffs

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...

The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

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.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

20230224: Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener, 2/24/2023

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

2022-07-29 Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One

As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KGUA, KSQD Santa Cruz and more

20220729: Patti Poppe: Reinventing Utilities During a Climate Emergency, 7/29/2022

From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed

As the CEO of the California utility giant PG&E, Patti Poppe is charged with navigating the company through massive wildfires, disrupted energy mar...

NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management

From: Mateo Schimpf

Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge

One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1)

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Has the California dream given way to a cost of living nightmare? NPR veteran and LA resident Barbara Bogaev co-hosts with Rob Pease for an in-dept...

Bought by KVMR

Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...

Can the War in Ukraine Push an Asian Economy Over the Edge?

From: Mateo Schimpf

Ray Suarez talks with The Washington Post’s Gerry Shih and Asanga Abeyagoonasekera, a Sri Lankan geopolitical analyst, to understand why-and-how Sr...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Is a large and growing segment of Hispanic American voters now leaning independent? That’s the operative question in this first episode on Hispanic...

The Mystery of Putin’s Wealth

From: Mateo Schimpf

On this week’s episode, we try to follow the money trail to better understand the connection between Putin’s power, his oligarchs, and whether econ...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale)

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

The Purple Principle brings its seven-part series on politics and identity in the already huge, yet fast-growing Lone Star State to a conclusion wi...

Putin Back Together the Russian Empire

From: Mateo Schimpf

This week, we’re looking at three pieces of the puzzle– Belarus, Georgia, and Armenia–and how each post-communist republic’s struggle to define its...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge

Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? These Not So United States (TX Part 3)

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Caption: Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? (TX Part 3), Credit: The Purple Principle

Is democracy still democracy when one party wins all the elections? That’s a question we’ll be asking around the country on our state level identi...

Framing the Games: China’s Human Rights Problem

From: Mateo Schimpf

What's the calculation for an Olympic athlete determined to make a protest statement at the games? And how has China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinj...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge

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