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The scientist who isolated tiny pieces of plastic in human placenta tissue is our guest.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: May 20, 2024
- Length: 28:33
- Purchases: 1
Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.
- Added: Apr 15, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Mamavation is the leading site for independent testing of consumer products. We talk with founder Leah Segedie.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 28:11
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT talks about her research linking pesticide residues in food to the destruction of gut bacteria and link to autism.
- Added: Jan 29, 2024
- Length: 28:50
- Purchases: 2
The story of Ruth Moss, her smart meter, and her fight to establish a single name for the physical symptoms of exposure to RF radiation.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
World renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan has an important warning for couples planning to have a baby.
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 28:01
- Purchases: 3
Author Kristina Marusic talks about her new book A New War on Cancer about the environmental links to the dreaded disease.
- Added: Jun 19, 2023
- Length: 28:31
- Purchases: 2
The class of chemicals known as PFAS causes cancer and disrupts the endocrine system, and will pollute the world forever.
- Added: May 22, 2023
- Length: 28:20
- Purchases: 2
A federal rule requires providers to start giving patients easier access to much more of their health care data, but it’s fraught with implementati...
- Added: Oct 07, 2022
- Length: 16:55
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
We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
- Added: May 02, 2022
- Length: 16:53
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
In this episode, we discuss vaccines – the science that has brought us such an incredible solution to public health crises; the human response to v...
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 29:30
A conversation between two people pushed in different directions by the pandemic — one who felt she had to walk away from her job in public health ...
- Added: Oct 14, 2021
- Length: 17:42
Democratic lawmakers face tough compromises as they struggle to secure votes for their blockbuster spending bill and its sweeping health care provi...
- Added: Oct 13, 2021
- Length: 12:49
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Global COVID Vaccination Inequity Crisis Demands Urgent Action; Indian Sch...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RADIOLEX, and WKPW
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
In this episode, we explore where we’re at with the COVID-19 pandemic - regionally, nationally, and internationally - and begin to assess where we’...
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- Added: Jul 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore carbon offsets, and how their promise as a way to mitigate carbon emissions - and thus climate change - have not yet pa...
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Yes, there will be millions of collective sighs as the deadliest pandemic in a century begins to abate and a more open summer kicks off. But summer...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s a lot we don’t know about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus but there is a consensus that it came from animals. This is called zoonosis. H...
- Added: May 14, 2021
- Length: 04:18
In this episode, we discuss the current state of California’s climate - how it’s changed in recent years, and what we face in 2021, including a sig...
- Added: Apr 30, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this segment of EPIDEMIC, Dr. Celine Gounder looks at disinformation during the pandemic. Specifically, we’re going to look at how the Russian g...
- Added: Apr 29, 2021
- Length: 04:06
We’re looking at the variant that emerged in South Africa: 501Y.V2. This variant is not only more transmissible, but has demonstrated the troubling...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 04:00
Combating misinformation has become more important than ever during the pandemic. The novel coronavirus, social media, and a polarized political en...
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 04:00
Overdoses have spiked during the pandemic. One of the reasons is a breakdown in the community support so critical to keeping people off drugs. Soci...
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 04:21
