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The Conservative Clash Over Abortion Bans
From: Tradeoffs
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Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans. This week, reporter Alice Miranda...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2023
  • Length: 19:26
SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients Right to Sue
From: Tradeoffs
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 11:27
States’ Uphill Battle to Stop Runaway Health Care Costs
From: Tradeoffs
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 17:45
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
Black Americans report higher levels of mistrust in the health care system than white Americans and suffer worse outcomes in everything from matern...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 03, 2023
  • Length: 20:23
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Medicare’s Prescription Drug Plan Makeover
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Therese Humphrey Ball has struggled to afford her multiple sclerosis medications since her diagnosis in 2003., Credit: Jamie Kelter Davis for Tradeoffs
An overhaul of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit will lower costs for seniors while changing incentives for insurers and drugmakers.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 19:19
The Push to End Cancer Screening Purgatory
From: Tradeoffs
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Initial screenings for breast, lung, cervical cancer are free, but expensive secondary tests can leave patients in screening purgatory.

  • Added: Sep 30, 2022
  • Length: 14:24
America’s Chronic Drug Shortage Problem
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Answering the Call: Struggling to Staff the Nation's New Crisis Line - Two-way
From: Tradeoffs
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 04:00
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths? - Two-way
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths?
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Women fought trafficking and created a refuge in this Chinatown building
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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We look at the history of the Cameron House in San Francisco's Chinatown. The women who founded the organization worked to rescue Chinese women and...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Mallory Moench - San Francisco Reporter Discusses "Rampant Shoplifting"
From: Ray Samuels
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Mallory Moench, City Hall reporter for San Francisco, California, discusses the alarming trend of "rampant shoplifting" in the city.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 11:40
Dr. Ivy Branin - How to keep healthy during the pandemic - Part 1
From: Ray Samuels
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How to keep healthy during the pandemic.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:15
Dr. Pierre Kory discusses ivermectin with Dr. Sam Dubé
From: Ray Samuels
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In this edition of the Toronto Business Journal, Pierre Kory, M.D., M.P.A., President of the non-profit Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance,...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:05:22
Could a once-a-day pill end the HIV epidemic in San Francisco?
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Mural portrait of Esteban Cuaya-Muñoz at the Oakland Museum of California, by artist Brett Cooke
In November, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved legislation allocating $300,000 to help San Franciscans who want PrEP to get access to i...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 05:21
Sights & Sounds of Bayview: Raquel Miller aims for the Olympics
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents - Sights & Sounds of Bayview
Caption: Bayview's Raquel Miller in the ring, Credit: Malaika Kambon
At first glance, Raquel Miller has more than a few things in common with a Hollywood heiress. She wears her hair in long, soft curls or braids and ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 08:56
Billionaires’ sailboat race may leave San Francisco in debt
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: America's Cup on the San Francisco Bay
If you walked along the San Francisco waterfront recently, you may have noticed giant catamarans -- specialized, 72-foot long sailboats that whizz ...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 05:44
Amid Theft, Ranchers Scramble to Locate Hay
From: Grace Hood
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One of ranching’s most basic materials is in high demand right now. With the price of hay doubling for some smaller operations along the Front Rang...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Aspen Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Warming World Spells Trouble for Elderly
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
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When you think of climate change, you might think of melting ice shelves. Heat waves. Shrinking habitat for animals and plants. You might not think...

Bought by Aspen Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 3
Whitebark Pine, Grizzlies, and an Ecosystem on the Brink
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: Yellowstone flyover 2, Credit: K. Gourlay
Whitebark pine trees, once a feature of the mountainous west, are under attack. Nearly two-thirds have died from beetle attacks and other causes, h...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 1
Cave Conservation
From: Kristin Espeland Gourlay
Caption: Looking up and out of the mouth of Horse Cave, Kentucky, Credit: K. Gourlay
Caves may lie beneath our radar, but they play an important role in many Southeastern U.S. ecosystems. They filter water and shelter diverse wildli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 3
Concerts at the White House
From: Richard Paul
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A look at concerts in the Kennedy White House, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, Delmarva Public Media, WLPR , KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 13
JFK and the Arts
From: Richard Paul
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A look at changes in art policy during the Kennedy Administration, narrated by Richard Dreyfuss.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Prairie Public, WABE, Delmarva Public Media, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:25
  • Purchases: 11
Struggling Company Goes Out of Way to Help Laid Off Workers
From: NPR Economic Training Project
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Charlotte-area small business Tyler 2 Construction is putting laid-off workers on "attached unemployment" and still paying their health insurance b...

Bought by Michigan Radio Economy Special and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 23, 2009
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 2