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Three hundred years ago this Easter, Europeans landed on what they called "Easter Island," and ever since, the statues there have been a mystery. B...
Bought by WKSU, KWIT, WYAP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City and more
- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 51:58
- Purchases: 18
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
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
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
In this explosive interview, cardiologist and epidemiologist Dr. Peter McCullough speaks to Dr. Sam Dubé as to why he, as well as a multitude of hi...
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 01:18:30
How to keep healthy during the pandemic.
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:15
How to keep healthy during the pandemic.
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 58:01
The end of the pandemic might not mean the end of SARS-CoV-2. In fact, many scientists think COVID is here to stay, even with vaccines. In this seg...
- Added: May 06, 2021
- Length: 04:07
Several years ago a colleague of mine, Geetu Bharwaney, from the UK, wrote an excellent book about emotional resilience. With all the challenges we...
- Added: Dec 03, 2020
- Length: 54:58
If you're trying to cover the pandemic in seven Midwestern states, where do you start? WNIN partnered with data scientists from the University of E...
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 14:47
In Norfolk, Virginia scientists battling sea level rise enlist residents to help collect data that could help the city better understand its rising...
- Added: Aug 31, 2020
- Length: 32:34
Many recovering COVID patients need rehabilitation before they go home. That's stretching inpatient rehab facilities to their limits.
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 05:36
Michael Osterholm, PhD, is director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy and author of the book, Dead...
Bought by KSRQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle
- Added: Mar 31, 2020
- Length: 15:48
- Purchases: 2
Are Herpes Simplex 1 and other microbes contributing to, if not causing, the brain changes in Alzheimer's Disease? Prominent Alzheimer's researche...
- Added: Feb 28, 2020
- Length: 28:19
Topic 1: A campaign to keep Christian voters engaged in the political process when neither of the major parties seems like a good fit. Topic 2: Why...
- Added: Jan 30, 2020
- Length: 50:08
In this episode we look at the idea of harm reduction and focus specifically on needle exchanges. Those are hundreds of places across the US that h...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 22:21
At a book group meeting, women went around the circle and introduced themselves. They found out that nearly everyone there had a son addicted to he...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 30:42
A new approach is linking people with addiction to drug treatment, instead of just sending them out the door when they’re well again. Two doctors, ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 28:04
In this episode, we hear personal stories from three women that show just how tightly woven together trauma, pain and addiction are. Also, we hear ...
- Added: Jan 19, 2020
- Length: 32:36
