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This piece is an interview with Jo Anne Barnhart, Commissioner of Social Security about the new Medicare Part D prescription drug plan
- Added: Apr 26, 2006
- Length: 16:10
Actor David Hyde Pierce talks about his family's struggles with Alzheimer's Disease. Then, a humorous look at the world of gardening through the ey...
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- Added: Apr 25, 2006
- Length: 01:00:09
- Purchases: 1
struck cyclists talk, with original score by survivors
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KPVL, RadioFreePalmer, KFOK-LPFM, KMXT and more
- Added: Apr 17, 2006
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 10
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News and features on the War in Iraq
- Added: Apr 07, 2006
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Claudia Cragg
"People don't understand most of us get up off the floor, spit out the carpet and get on with it..."
- Added: Apr 05, 2006
- Length: 17:14
- Added: Mar 31, 2006
- Length: 29:00
First, National Book Award winner Joan Didion talks about The Year of Magical Thinking. Then, helpful hints on getting the best health care for you...
- Added: Mar 28, 2006
- Length: 01:00:10
The problems in healthcare have gone beyond just tweaking the current system to a point where we really have to look at infrastructure issues, and ...
- Added: Mar 20, 2006
- Length: 07:44
The former first lady talks about life after the White House and her decades-long commitment to helping those who help others. Then, sportswriter J...
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- Added: Mar 14, 2006
- Length: 01:00:06
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Bill Thomas talks about innovative long term care communities he visited in Australia. Then, after three decades, Ruth Sacks Caplin?s screenpla...
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- Added: Mar 06, 2006
- Length: 01:00:08
- Purchases: 1
Emergency rooms don't have access to a patient's primary healthcare information. This, as well as the cost of a healthcare education, adds to the ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2006
- Length: 05:35
As access to healthcare becomes increasingly difficult, emergency rooms are becoming the primary health service for a lot of people.
- Added: Mar 04, 2006
- Length: 06:47
Nuclear waste being used in US weapons in the Middle East?? What is Depleted Uranium??? Most of us don?t know ? and that ignorance is literally ki...
- Added: Mar 02, 2006
- Length: 29:21
When capitalism is applied to taking care of our health, things can quickly get out of control.
- Added: Mar 01, 2006
- Length: 04:41
A lost recording brings pleasure to a woman and prolongs her life.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, KUOW, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis and more
- Added: Feb 23, 2006
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 6
Why Single Payer, Part 2: A big slice of the healthcare pie - Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies
From: Miles EddySeries: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
If you look at who is profitable in healthcare these days, it's not hospitals, it's not doctors; the two most profitable lines of business are phar...
- Added: Feb 22, 2006
- Length: 04:44
We are all paying for a broken healthcare system! Three healthcare professionals speak out why and offer some possible solutions.
- Added: Feb 20, 2006
- Length: 06:17
Community mental health centers often serve those who are most in need, but what happens to people diagnosed with mental illness on the higher end ...
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- Added: Feb 18, 2006
- Length: 05:54
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Physician and author Vincent Lam talks with Susan Johnston about his first short story collection, "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures"
- Added: Feb 17, 2006
- Length: 14:50
- Added: Feb 17, 2006
- Length: 19:35
an addict kicks drugs and re-discovers his love for music
- Added: Jan 30, 2006
- Length: 06:09
Prescription drugs, especially oxycontin, has been a growing problem in southeastern Kentucky. Its not a problem most people want to talk about it...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2006
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 1
What is the REAL impact of war on the people who fight it? What does war do to the human soul?
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 28, 2005
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 1
We follow Maryknollers and the people they work with who are involved in AIDS outreach from Kitale in the Northwest to Mombasa in the Southeast, on...
- Added: Dec 16, 2005
- Length: 27:58
Author John Barry discusses the influenza pandemic of 1918, Chris Crenner comments on the forerunner of today's medical advice columnist- Dr. Logan...
- Added: Dec 09, 2005
- Length: 29:00
