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The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Breast Cancer in a Bottle with Polly Marshall
From: Doug Wood
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Chemicals in personal care products millions of women use everyday increase your risk of breast cancer.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:21
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
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 Cell Phone Disconnect
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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On this edition of GSN, Dr. Paul Heroux explains some of the history of cell phones and how and why they should be made safer.

Bought by WRFA-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 2
741-Africano(529)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: NASA Stardust
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, WYAP, RADIOLEX, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WNED Buffalo, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
739-Comet Groller(527)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
When Home Becomes a Hospital
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.
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
Nature Out of Balance with Dr. Tim Wood
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Little things can cause big trouble when man changes the environment

Bought by WMUU-LP and WYAP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:34
  • Purchases: 2
737-Collision(525)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Breakup, Credit: NASA
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
736-Home Wrecker(524)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: IDA, Credit: NASA
The extremely remote chance that a dangerous mountain sized space rock has our number on it is what keeps my team going to our four telescopes in t...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
734-Comets Africano(522)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
During Comet C/2018 V4 Africano's last visit to the inner solar system humans were erecting the outer ring at Stonehenge. At the rate human's are c...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
735-One Thousand(523)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a s...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
733-Lunar Space Rock(521)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Lunar Space Rock, Credit: NASA
Recently, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller discovered an Earth approaching asteroid which has a speed consistent with it being ejecte...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
732-Comet Lemmon(520)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
An interstellar traveler visits our neighborhood on its tour of the Milky Way.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
No More Humans? with Dr. Shanna Swan
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Will endocrine disrupting chemicals that cause declines in sperm production finally finish off the human race?

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:22
  • Purchases: 1
One Doctor’s Crusade to Improve Health Literacy
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick believes plainspoken information from trusted messengers can help shrink health disparities, and some insurers are buying in., Credit: Ryan Levi
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
731-Greg's Comet(519)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Halley's Comet, Credit: NASA
The discovery of a Jupiter family comet whose fate is to become a garden variety main belt asteroid.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Closing the Nuclear Cancer Factory
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Diane Turco from Cape Downwinders talks about the company decommissioning the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant, and how they're trying to save money buy...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 28:04
The End of Humira’s $200 Billion Drug Monopoly
From: Tradeoffs
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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
Can You Trust Your Food? with Helena Bottemiller Evich
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
729-Close Again(517)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artists Conception: Small Space Rocks, Credit: Texas A&M
As asteroid hunters equipment and skills continue to improve we will be able to find and track some of these tiny impactors and perhaps be able to ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, WYAP, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
728-Space Weather(516)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Engulfed in Space Weather, Credit: NASA
Space is not all that far away. If a powerful solar eruption in 2012 had happened a week earlier, the blast of radiation would have caused wide spr...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9