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America's Costly Health Care: Harvard's Ashish Jha Shares His Insights on Causes and Solutions
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Ashish Jha, Associate Dean for Research Translation and Global Strategy at Harvar...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:30:00
Remembering a Giant in Health Economics: Our Interview with Uwe Reinhardt
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter remember a giant who has influenced much of the landscape of health economics and policy in Ame...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2018
  • Length: 30:01
ABIM Foundation's Daniel Wolfson Analyzes Impact of Choosing Wisely Campaign at 5 Years
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Daniel Wolfson, CEO of the ABIM Foundation of the American Board of Internal Medicin...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Connected Health Expert Dr. Joseph Kvedar of Partners Health on Potential Impact of Technology on Caring for Aging Population
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Joseph Kvedar, VP of Connected Health at Partners Health Care in Boston, where t...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
Leading Cancer Researcher Dr. Michael Caligiuri On Coming Breakthroughs in Cancer Therapies
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Michael Caligiuri, President of the American Association for Cancer Research rep...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
Los Angeles Health Director Dr. Mitchell Katz Talks Lessons Learned in LA That Have Improved Population Health
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Mitchell Katz, Director of Health for the City of Los Angeles, who is taking ove...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 29:59
Dr. John Brownstein, Director of Innovation at Boston Children's Hospital on Disruptive Technologies in Health
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. John Brownstein, Director of Innovation at Boston Children's Hospital and Profes...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
The Evolution of AIDS
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Human hands unwittingly unleashed the AIDS epidemic and can now overcome it, if we learn the lessons of the past. This week on Interchange guest ho...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
In the Department of Poetic Justice: Take Them Off Our Agenda (Ending Affordable Care)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to send all Affordable Care Act funding back to the states so states can deny coverage to citizens an...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:01
Killing The Red Pines in Charlotte: The Private Time Line of Environmental Contamination
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
The Rules of Life
From: Richard Paul
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What causes Alzheimer’s Disease? What causes cancers to form? Can we make jet fuel and plastics out of germs? To get these answers, scientists ...

Bought by WAMU, KQED, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 6
Race and the Space Race
From: Richard Paul
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The unlikely story of Civil Rights and the Space Program.

Bought by Nevada Public Radio, KUHF, WXXI Rochester, KWGS, KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 23
Telemedicine Champion Dr. Peter Yellowlees Discusses Impact of Telehealth on Access to Care
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Peter Yellowlees, President-elect of the American Telemedicine Association which...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Indiana Secretary of Social Services Dr. Jennifer Walthall Discusses Health Care Transformation Through Medicaid Expansion and Waivers
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Jennifer Walthall, Indiana's Secretary of the Family and Social Services Adminis...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2017
  • Length: 30:00
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
Sidewalks Versus Surgery
From: Duke University
Series: Glad You Asked
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We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:18
The Future of Farming
From: WCWP
Series: Taking Care of Business with Richard Solomon
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Water shortages will continue to create pressures on farms throughout the world. Chris Moorman may have found an answer

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 54:00
Deadly Opioid Overwhelms First Responders And Crime Labs in Ohio
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Bob Topmiller, chief of toxicology at the Hamilton County Coroner's Office, holds a small vial containing carfentanil extracted from a sample of blood., Credit: Jake Harper/Side Effects
Heroin isn't new in Cincinnati, but the recent surge in overdoses is being blamed on an even more potent drug called carfentanil. It's 100 times st...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
Is 20-Something Too Late For A Guy To Get The HPV Vaccine?
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Jake Harper, 29, is Side Effects Public Media's resident hypochondriac. His newest health anxiety stems from the human papillomavirus, or HPV., Credit: Brian Paul/Side Effects
A generation of young men missed out on the HPV vaccine. Now, Side Effects Public Media's 29-year-old correspondent wonders if that’s putting him a...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:23
Daniel Dawes, Author of 150 Years of Obamacare
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Daniel Dawes, health law attorney, Executive Director of Health Policy and External ...

Bought by WJCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 3
Dr. Anil Jain, Co-Founder and Senior VP of Explorys
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Anil Jain, Co-Founder, Senior VP and Medical Director of Explorys, a cloud-based...

Bought by WJCU and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer of Apple. Mr. Williams is in charge of the te...

Bought by WJCU and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Larry Smarr, Director California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Larry Smarr, Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications an...

Bought by KRZA, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Raj Chetty, PhD, Professor of Public Economics at Stanford University
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, Hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Raj Chetty, PhD, MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Public Economics at Stanford Univ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Dr. Robert Zarr, ParkRx Advisor, National Park Service
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Robert Zarr, pediatrician at Unity Health in Washington, DC and founder of the P...

Bought by WJCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jul 05, 2016
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3