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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...
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- Added: Feb 27, 2023
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 7
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
Averting Devastation and Building a Resilient Future post Hurricane Ian with Valerie Slack Architect
From: Ken GreySeries: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Averting Devastation and Building a Resilient Future post Hurricane Ian with Valerie Slack Architect. Founder of Native Design and President of The...
- Added: Nov 04, 2022
- Length: 26:14
Today we look at practical ways to approach the climate crisis and how we can tell real solutions from pseudo-solutions.
- Added: Oct 16, 2022
- Length: 54:53
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
Captains for Clean Water on The Front Lines of the War to Save Planet Earth. We have a conversation with Captain Chris Wittman, Co-Founder, that tr...
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 26:57
- Purchases: 2
We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
- Added: Jun 09, 2022
- Length: 03:53
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
Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?
- Added: May 17, 2022
- Length: 18:14
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
San Francisco saw more people die from drug overdoses than from COVID-19 over the last two years. We take a deep dive into the complex factors cont...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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
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
Getting vaccinated and wearing a mask may be all there is to making someone happy in Covid-19 times.
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- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
There are many many examples of malice these days. And then there are the opportunities to do good.
- Added: Aug 22, 2021
- Length: 03:28
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
In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 27:08
