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Martha Lillard is one of the last two people in the United States who depend on an iron lung to breathe.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
Director Clare Lewins and NASA astronaut Cady Coleman discuss the new documentary “The Wonderful: Stories from the Space Station.”
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 13
This week, The Laura Flanders Show premieres ‘Building Public Trust for Public Health’ on the challenges of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout across the...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
COVID-19 will have a mental health impact on everyone. In this special episode of SEE YOU NOW we hear from four healthcare leaders with a different...
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 59:14
Some people with chronic pain now rely on medical marijuana in place of opioid painkillers. But, in the absence of formal medical guidance, many pa...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 24:49
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 19:04
My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Pat and Ted Davis have been married for more than fifty years. But since Ted started showing signs of depression and dementia, he has become so qui...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 10:52
Science and environmental reporter Andrew Revkin has been writing about climate change since the 1980s, including 21 years for The New York Times. ...
Bought by WJCT, KZYX, KVNF, NPR Now, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Jul 19, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 7
Dr. Richard Paat is a healthcare physician who is not just making an impact at his local practice in Maumee but around the world.
Tune in to find...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 06:09
Radio Curious visits with Dr. Jerome Groopman, author of "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness,” a book about hope and it...
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 29:01
Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.
Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and Louisville Public Media
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 55:55
- Purchases: 4
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
What it?s like to suffer from a disease that little is known about.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WFUV, and WBEZ
- Added: Nov 23, 2006
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 3
From: Out of Bounds
Dr. Sandra Steingraber discusses her personal journey from cancer survivor to an investigation of cancer and the enviornment which resulted in her ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2006
- Length: 29:30
