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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
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...
- Added: Mar 27, 2024
- Length: 27:55
A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...
- Added: Mar 20, 2024
- Length: 19:17
With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2024
- Length: 15:44
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2024
- Length: 21:12
Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?
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- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 18:02
- Purchases: 1
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...
- Added: Feb 14, 2024
- Length: 24:19
Fentanyl killed 75,000 people in 2022. Now it’s making one of the few treatments for opioid addiction harder to use.
- Added: Jan 26, 2024
- Length: 23:50
One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...
- Added: Nov 17, 2023
- Length: 22:59
California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 16:55
Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries.
Private...
- Added: Oct 20, 2023
- Length: 19:15
In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 24:29
Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...
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- Added: Sep 22, 2023
- Length: 24:12
- Purchases: 1
Girls in the U.S. are in the midst of a growing mental health crisis, and schools are on the front line of finding solutions. But will Black and La...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 20:47
This summer, our research reporter Soleil Shah added a new role to his resume: first-year medical resident. Now he spends his days alternating betw...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 17:02
Physician, public health professor, and author Michael Stein speaks about his recent book Me vs. Us: A Health Divided, which explores the differenc...
- Added: Aug 16, 2023
- Length: 49:38
Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....
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- Added: Jul 21, 2023
- Length: 16:54
- Purchases: 1
It’s been one year since 988 — the country’s new mental health crisis line — went live with hopes of transforming crisis services in America. So fa...
- Added: Jul 14, 2023
- Length: 24:53
One year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 15 states have effectively banned abortion. Dozens of clinics in those states have shut th...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 15:52
Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Adv...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2023
- Length: 24:09
- Purchases: 1
There’s growing excitement that artificial intelligence can make health care better by speeding up care, improving diagnoses and easing the burden ...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 23:21
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income nation in the world — and it is Black mothers who are dying at the hig...
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- Added: May 31, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 6
Actor-turned-otolaryngologist Alessa Colaianni has no problem acting sad—it’s actually feeling sad that’s the problem. In this episode, Alessa tell...
- Added: May 05, 2023
- Length: 40:08
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
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Texas Judge’s Ruling Banning Widely Used Abortion Drug Based on Ideology, ...
- Added: Apr 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
