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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
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
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
Research into psychedelic drugs was halted in the 1960s amid concern about recreational use. Now, the VA is among dozens of medical providers resum...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTEP, KPBS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio and more
- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 7
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
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
The new western headquarters for The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency in St. Louis will mainly deal with mapping and satellite imagery.
Bought by KUT, WRFA-LP, and Texas Public Radio
- Added: Dec 19, 2022
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 3
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
California is in the early days of one of the most ambitious initiatives ever to address Medicaid patients’ social needs in hopes of improving thei...
- Added: Sep 26, 2022
- Length: 30:48
Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...
- Added: Jul 07, 2022
- Length: 16:16
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
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
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
Misunderstood and sometimes parodied, the U.S. Space Force is educating the public about its mission
From: American Homefront Project
The newest military service branch is responsible for protecting satellites and other objects in space, which it expects will be critical parts of ...
Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS, and KUT
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 03:55
- Purchases: 5
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
The military is trying to learn more about long COVID. Troops who have it worry about their careers.
From: American Homefront Project
Little is known about COVID-19 cases in which symptoms persist for months. Affected service members may have trouble performing their duties or get...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUT, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KPBS and more
- Added: Apr 28, 2022
- Length: 03:14
- Purchases: 7
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
The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2022
- Length: 15:11
- Purchases: 1
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
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
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
More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...
- Added: Jan 27, 2022
- Length: 23:30
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
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
During the pandemic public health workers have been threatened, and in some cases, been the targets of violence. This misdirection of anger has led...
- Added: Jul 01, 2021
- Length: 03:21
