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Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Fossils
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Learn about fossils in a Kids Crew field trip to a secret fossil quarry in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, as well as in a chat with New Mexi...

Bought by KRSC, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WSMC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20230918: Fossils, 9/18/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Learn about fossils in a Kids Crew field trip to a secret fossil quarry in the mountains outside of Albuquerque, as well as in a chat with New Mexi...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
When Research and the Realities of Practicing Medicine Collide
From: Tradeoffs
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This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 17:02
20230828: Understanding Vaccines, 8/28/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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The Kids Crew learn the science, history, and current schedule of vaccination from Newberry Honor winning author Dr. Rajani Larocca, and from the C...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Understanding Vaccines
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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The Kids Crew learn the science, history, and current schedule of vaccination from Newberry Honor winning author Dr. Rajani Larocca, and from the C...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRSC, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
Black Footed Ferrets
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Once declared extinct, the black footed ferret is slowly recovering thanks to the work of our guest Paul Marinari. We learn about Elizabeth Ann, th...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KTNA, RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
From: Tradeoffs
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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....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
20230724: Black Footed Ferrets, 7/24/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Once declared extinct, the black footed ferret is slowly recovering thanks to the work of our guest Paul Marinari. We learn about Elizabeth Ann, th...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Penguins
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This show is super cool! We learn about penguins from Dr. Charles Bergman, who has visited all 18 species of penguins in the wild. Mixed with great...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20230710: Penguins, 7/10/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This show is super cool! We learn about penguins from Dr. Charles Bergman, who has visited all 18 species of penguins in the wild. Mixed with great...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2
From: Tradeoffs
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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
The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
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
Squid
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Colorful, mysterious, delicious squid are among the most ancient and diverse creatures in the world. We learn all about them with Skype A Scientist...

Bought by KDLG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KIYU-FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
When Home Becomes a Hospital
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.
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
20230327: Squid, 3/27/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Colorful, mysterious, delicious squid are among the most ancient and diverse creatures in the world. We learn all about them with Skype A Scientist...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Caves Alive
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour, we're joined by three cave biologists who are researching life underground. Learn the basics of caves, spelunking...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KRSC, KSTK and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
20230320: Caves Alive, 3/20/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour, we're joined by three cave biologists who are researching life underground. Learn the basics of caves, spelunking...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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
Watersheds and Fire
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20221107: Watersheds and Fire, 11/7/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children's Hour we learn about watersheds, and what happens to them after a wildfire. Watersheds which provide the water source fo...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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
Whales
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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This time on The Children's Hour, we learn about the largest animal on earth, that still can be found swimming in our oceans today: whales.

Bought by KECG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, WUTC and more


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9