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What pregnancy during COVID-19 looks like for undocumented or unemployed women

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

We return to Amy Gastelum for a first person look at pregnancy during the pandemic.

Added: May 29, 2022
Length: 10:56

¿QPM? S5 EP 8: La lucha después de la nube de polvo

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

Ordered to stay in their homes early in the pandemic, residents of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago are hit by a toxic dust cloud from a ...

Added: May 28, 2022
Length: 15:00

¿QPM? S5 EP 7: Giving back to la comunidad one meal at a time

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

Food became a critical measure of equity during the pandemic.

Added: May 28, 2022
Length: 10:00

¿QPM? S5 EP 6?: What does collective care for Latinos look like?

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

More on how Latinos care for each other during the pandemic.

Added: May 28, 2022
Length: 14:20

¿QPM? S5 EP 5: Helping meet the ever changing needs in the community

From: WNIN
Series: ¿Qué Pasa, Midwest?

How did the Latino community respond to the pandemic?

Added: May 28, 2022
Length: 14:30

Can More Time on Medicaid Lower Maternal Deaths? - Two-way

From: Tradeoffs

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

How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe

From: Tradeoffs

A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio

Added: May 05, 2022
Length: 12:53
Purchases: 1

How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation

From: Tradeoffs

After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

Added: Apr 14, 2022
Length: 22:11

A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums

From: Tradeoffs

The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

Added: Mar 23, 2022
Length: 20:23

Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care

From: Tradeoffs

We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Added: Mar 03, 2022
Length: 18:18

Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Healthcare

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Peter Lee, outgoing Executive Director of Covered California, Credit: Photo used with the permission of Covered California

This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...

Added: Feb 28, 2022
Length: 18:08

The FDA Super Bowl

From: Tradeoffs

Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...

Added: Feb 28, 2022
Length: 18:33

Answering the Call, Part 1: America’s New Mental Health Crisis Line

From: Tradeoffs

Starting July 16, 2022, anyone in the U.S. experiencing a mental health crisis will be able to dial 988 for help. We explore what it will take for ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Feb 03, 2022
Length: 25:04
Purchases: 1

Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision

From: Tradeoffs

In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

Added: Jan 20, 2022
Length: 22:47

More Vietnam vets now qualify for disability benefits, but it may be years before they see the money

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Vietnam Veteran Jim Scott, who now volunteers for the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, shared his story at the 2018 Bladder Cancer Think Tank. Scott attributes his disease to his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam., Credit: Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network

Veterans suffering from certain medical conditions became eligible for "presumptive" VA disability benefits last year. But the claims they're filin...

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, KPBS and more

Added: Jan 20, 2022
Length: 03:46
Purchases: 7

Driving buses, giving vaccines, patrolling the border: Is the National Guard asked to do too much?

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: A member of the National Guard drives a school bus van in Chelsea, Mass. in October. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker activated the Guard to address a shortage of drivers as the school year began., Credit: Jesse Costa / WBUR

The National Guard is being tasked with a growing number of missions, and critics argue that heavy deployments are straining the force.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KPBS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, KMXT and more

Added: Nov 18, 2021
Length: 03:47
Purchases: 6

Has Medicaid Managed Care Delivered On Its Promise?

From: Tradeoffs

Letting private insurers offer Medicaid coverage was supposed to lower costs and improve care. We dig into the research on Medicaid managed care.

Bought by KVSC

Added: Nov 04, 2021
Length: 22:32
Purchases: 1

In hot real estate markets, buyers using VA mortgages can have a hard time competing for homes

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Real estate agent Leslie Alford said the housing market near Ft. Riley, Kansas has been "crazy" this year,” with “a whole lot less houses for sale, a whole lot more competition for them, and higher prices.”, Credit: Courtesy Leslie Alford

Troops and veterans sometimes are hurt by misconceptions about VA mortgages, or they encounter sellers who don't want their home to go through a VA...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KRPS, and KUT

Added: Oct 19, 2021
Length: 03:34
Purchases: 4

A study shows PTSD carries a stigma for veterans - regardless of whether they suffer from it

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America erected this window display in New York City as part of a 2015 PTSD awareness campaign., Credit: IAVA

Fewer than 20 percent of veterans suffer from PTSD, but most Americans think the disorder is far more common.

Bought by KRPS, KLCC, KCUR, KPBS, WRFA-LP and more

Added: Sep 23, 2021
Length: 03:56
Purchases: 7

'He just wanted to serve his country': A widow mourns one of the last troops to die in the Afghanistan war

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Alena Knauss stands in the laundry room of her North Carolina home, which she's been renovating and re-tiling. She placed the initials "R" and "A" in the tile for herself and her husband Ryan, who was killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan August 26. , Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

More than 2,400 U.S. service members were killed in the Afghanistan war. The Pentagon said Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss - who died from injuries ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KPBS, Texas Public Radio, and KCUR

Added: Aug 31, 2021
Length: 03:49
Purchases: 4

Arlington National Cemetery is filling up, so the Army may limit who can be buried there

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Kathi Dugan, 73, retired from the Navy after 30 years. Her parents are both buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but Dugan may not be able to join them if the Army proceeds with a plan to cut eligibility for in-ground burials., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront

Many former troops consider an Arlington burial their final veterans benefit. But space for in-ground burials is getting scarce, so some vets may b...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and North Country Public Radio