Out of the Ashes of Steel, Health Care
In part one of our hour on the rust belt economy with history Gabriel Winant, author of the new book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America, we heard so...
View ArticleThe Workplace Vaccine Mandate Debate
As more workplaces announces strategies to reopen their offices, employees are having a wide range of reactions. Robert Iafolla, reporter covering labor and employment for Bloomberg Law, joins to...
View ArticleThe Essential Workers' Radio Parade
The city is hosting a "hometown heroes" ticker tape parade in Lower Manhattan honoring essential workers. Listeners call in to honor essential workers in their lives. WNYC reporter Karen Yi and...
View ArticleAfghanistan's Healthcare System is on the Verge of Collapse
Public health experts and aid groups are warning that there could be an imminent collapse of the health care system in Afghanistan if things don’t change soon. One of the main things influencing this...
View ArticlePrimate Parasites, Spider Mating Songs, Spotted Lanternfly. Oct 1, 2021, Part 1
Healthcare Is Hard Enough to Get. If You’re A Trans Youth, It’s Even HarderHealthcare can be difficult to access for anyone—that’s been made clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. But for transgender...
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Aging While Queer
October is LGBTQ+ History month. For some of the members of the LGBTQ+ community, that history is not just an academic exploration to be researched in books but a lifetime of memories of years of...
View ArticleAging While Queer: Affirming Housing for LGBTQ-SGL Elders
Dr. Imani Woody is about to break ground on a project long in the making. After Dr. Woody’s father fell ill, her family moved him into what they thought was a “good” home but they quickly discovered...
View ArticleHospital Staffing Shortage Meets Weird Marketplace For Nurses
Nurses are leaving the profession in droves, driven by extremely difficult pandemic-related working conditions. We invited nurses to call in and talk about the state of their profession.On Today's...
View ArticleHealth of Hospitals; Helping Bronx Fire Victims; Parents & COVID Vaccines; 51...
On today's show:Craig Spencer, New York City emergency medicine physician and director of global health in emergency medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, describes the landscape of...
View ArticleSuccessful HIV Treatment, Improving Health Equity, Fusion Energy Record. Feb...
Third Person Cured From HIV, Thanks To Umbilical Cord Stem CellsThe third person ever, and the first woman, has been cured of the HIV virus, thanks to a stem cell transplant using umbilical cord blood....
View ArticleDandelion Sensors, GoFundMe Healthcare Shortcomings, Where Did Mars’ Water...
Flower Power: Floating Sensors Inspired By DandelionsDandelions’ white puff balls are irresistible—kids delight in blowing on them until the seeds break free, floating away. But, dandelion seeds’...
View ArticleThe Long Road to Long Covid Healthcare
According to some estimates, millions of people in the U.S. could still be suffering from long Covid related symptoms, including brain fog, extreme exhaustion, and irregular heartbeat. But despite the...
View ArticleMedical Gaslighting And Why It's A Problem
Medical gaslighting is when people feel that their symptoms are dismissed or not treated appropriately by health care providers. Women and people of color are more likely to experience medical...
View ArticleThankless
To help her sick mother, Abigail needs to ask for help from her brother, a conspiracy-peddling radio host. Written by Louis Kornfeld Performed by Monica Wyche, PJ Sosko, Jamie Newell, Max Brand, Louis...
View ArticleThankless
To help her sick mother, Abigail needs to ask for help from her brother, a conspiracy-peddling radio host. Written by Louis Kornfeld Performed by Monica Wyche, PJ Sosko, Jamie Newell, Max Brand, Louis...
View ArticleAbortion Before Roe Shows Us What It Could Mean If It's Struck Down
We can't go back to before Roe v. Wade. The country is too different. So where are we going?On Today's Show:We present a national evening special call-in show that Brian hosted a few weeks ago, with...
View ArticleBodily Autonomy
This week, we feature two stories about women forced to make tough choices about their health. This episode is hosted by Sarah Austin Jenness. Host: Sarah Austin Jenness Storytellers: Robin Utz Jill...
View ArticleThe New Standards For Gender Affirming Care
Amid discourse about whether gender affirming care should be available to kids who identify as trans, we wanted to hear what trans health advocacy organizations are actually advocating for.On Today's...
View ArticleWhy More Americans Want Their Tubes Tied
Meena Venkataramanan, staff writer at The Washington Post, discusses her reporting on the rise in the number of Americans seeking tubal sterilizations—and the challenges they face along the way.
View ArticleNYC Summer Crime Numbers; 51 Councilmembers in 52 Weeks: District 36, Chi...
Coming up on today's show:In the latest crime stats released by the NYPD for the summer months, murders were down while other major crimes were up. Harry Siegel, FAQ NYC creator and co-host, Daily News...
View ArticleUnderlying Biden’s “Moonshot”: Who Gets Cancer In America?
On the 60th anniversary of JFK's 'moonshot' speech, Joe Biden outlined a similarly aspirational plan to invest in cancer cures and treatment.On Today's Show:Sarah Owermohle, Washington correspondent at...
View ArticlePlaying God
When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer...
View ArticleNo-Touch Abortion
When the Dobbs decision went down, ER doctor Avir Mitra started to prepare for the worst — botched, at-home abortions that would land pregnant people in the emergency room. To prepare himself and his...
View ArticleNY Gov's Race; 30 Issues: Health Care Costs; The 'New Climate Reality';...
Coming up on today's show:Harry Siegel, FAQ NYC creator and co-host, Daily News columnist, editor at The City, Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast...
View ArticleHow Undocumented Mothers Navigate the U.S. Healthcare System
Dr. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos is a medical anthropologist at the University of Houston. She spent five years working with a woman she calls Claudia Garcia: an undocumented Mexican mother who took...
View ArticleInfluential Union Head Talks Housing and Healthcare
Manny Pastreich, president of 32BJ SEIU, shares policy priorities and wins for the influential union, including on re-zonings, housing development, and healthcare costs.
View ArticleAbortion and Gender Rights in Idaho
After the U-S Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade last summer, Republican led states across the nation began enacting bans that curtailed reproductive rights and the right to an abortion. The state of...
View ArticleOlympic Track Star Dies In Childbirth: The Issues That Raises For Us All
The death of track star Tori Bowie has called attention to persistent racial health disparities in pregnancy and childbirth.On Today's Show:Linda Villarosa, writer at the New York Times Magazine and...
View ArticleThe "Moral Crisis" for Doctors in Working America's Corporatized Health Care
Eyal Press, journalist and author of several books, most recently, Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021), talks about his new piece...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Moral Crisis for Doctors, UFT President, 'The Sandwich'
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.The "Moral Crisis" for Doctors in Working America's Corporatized Health Care (First) | Union President Weighs in on Tentative...
View ArticleKākāpō Conservation, NYC Parrots, One Year After the Dobbs Decision. July 28,...
We have a new podcast! It’s called Universe Of Art, and it’s all about artists who use science to bring their creations to the next level. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; One Year Since First Asylum Seekers Came to NYC; How...
On today's show: Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American...
View ArticleHow Biden’s Medicare Prescription Drug Price Announcement Puts Republicans On...
The Biden administration announced which drugs that will be part of its price negotiations for patients on Medicare.On Today's Show: Jonathan Cohn, senior national reporter at HuffPost, lecturer at the...
View ArticleExposing An Abusive Doctor at Columbia University
For years, Dr. Robert Hadden continued as a respected OB-GYN at Columbia University while assaulting hundreds of his patients. A new podcast and series of articles about the case expose Dr. Hadden's...
View ArticleA is For Abortion
On October 1, the group 'A is For' will hold its annual gala to raise both money and awareness for reproductive rights. We'll speak to its founders, actors Martha Plimpton and Kellie Overbey about the...
View ArticleImminent Danger Ep 1: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Episode 1: Wrongful Death In 2016, Amy Lam was at an exciting time in her life. She’d recently graduated from Columbia journalism school and was expecting her second child. But then tragedy struck....
View ArticleImminent Danger Ep 2: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
We go back in time to uncover why New York state revoked OB-GYN Dr. Thomas J. Byrne’s medical license in the first place. And we meet Donita Henry, who – back in 1990 – was pregnant with her first...
View ArticleImminent Danger Ep 3: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Episode 3: The GatekeepersMarquita Baird has kept a bootbox full of medical records on a shelf in her home in Shawnee, Oklahoma for over two decades in the hope that, someday, someone would ask about...
View ArticleImminent Danger Ep 4: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
After leaving the Oklahoma City area, Dr. Thomas J. Byrne started working at a new hospital a few hours away, in a rural area in the northeast corner of the state. It was there that Sue Ackerson came...
View ArticleImminent Danger Ep 5: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women
Four years after Amy Lam died in 2016, court records show Dr. Thomas J. Byrne was involved in another incident at Harlem Hospital. A baby was allegedly lacerated down his back and buttocks during a...
View ArticleNancy Solomon Introduces Imminent Danger: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured...
Dead End host Nancy Solomon introduces us to a new, five-part investigation from the WNYC Newsroom called “Imminent Danger: One Doctor and a Trail of Injured Women.” The doctor in question — an OB/GYN...
View ArticleUS-China Relations; New York Redistricting, Again; Your Open Enrollment...
On today's show: A meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Joe Biden comes as the relationship between the U.S. and China hits its lowest point in decades. Daniel Russel, vice president for...
View ArticleCall Your Senator: Sen Gillibrand on Israeli Hostages, Civilian Deaths in...
Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator (D NY), responds to questions about Israel's war in Gaza, healthcare, asylum seekers, and more.
View ArticleNavigating Medicare Enrollment
Louise Norris health policy analyst for medicareresources.org helps listeners understand the pros and cons to Medicare and Medicare Advantage, as they navigate open enrollment.
View ArticleAn Abusive Doctor Exposed at Columbia University
[REBROADCAST FROM SEPTEMBER 19, 2023] For years, Dr. Robert Hadden continued as a respected OB-GYN at Columbia University while assaulting hundreds of his patients. A new podcast and series of articles...
View ArticleNew York's Giant Medicaid Budget
New York State's Medicaid budget is one of the biggest in the country. Bill Hammond, senior fellow for health policy at the Empire Center, and Elisabeth Benjamin, vice president of Health Initiatives...
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