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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
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
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Off Script: One Pharmacist's COVID Woes and Wins
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr Kelly Kent with patients.
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
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
Whatever Happened to Acid Rain?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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It's complicated.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 32:16
Whatever Happened to the Ozone Hole?
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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An environmental success story.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 24:10
  • Purchases: 1
462-Our View
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
461-Brian's First
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Brian Africano's first Potentially Hazardous Asteroid discovery can come near to the Earth and Mars.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KSFR and more


  • Added: May 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Yoga Pant Problem
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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The rise of synthetic fibers and the war on cotton

Bought by WSGE


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 27:04
  • Purchases: 1
Atlas for the End of the World: Urbanization Joins Conservation
From: Teosson Wells
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“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
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
Do You Need that Kidney?
From: Distillations
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
The Best Medicine for Heart Disease
From: Richard Paul
Series: The Best Medicine with Dr. Ken Miller
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A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KHNS, MPR News Stations, Maine Public Radio, KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 6
June 12 2015
From: Daniel Rosenbaum
Series: Wearable Tech Insider
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Wearable Tech Insider podcast for week ending June 12 2015

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 07:38
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
World Toilet Day
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Nov. 19th is World Toilet Day, and in developing countries it's serious business.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 18, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Are We Catching Up With Technology?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations about new technologies and how we are interacting with them in a very human way.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 1
Crime, Punishment, and the Search for Justice
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Word of Mouth
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Conversations about ideas and innovations in investigations and imprisonment, the search for justice, and the unexpected intersection of crime and ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and NPR Illinois


  • Added: Apr 18, 2013
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Word of Mouth Christmas
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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An hour-long magazine program featuring interviews and sound-rich pieces on a variety of seasonal themes, including the science of giving, the deba...

Bought by WBEZ and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Undergraduate Research in the Hard Sciences at Miami
From: Joe stampson
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A deeper look into the recent news of the Goldwater Scholarship Award being given to Prashant Rajan, and using that as a vehicle to further explore...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:05
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