Hospitals Brace for Predicted H1N1 Influx
This week, a presidential panel warned that the H1N1 virus could kill up to 90,000 Americans and send 200,000 to the hospital. Joining us to discuss these alarming figures (which he says he now wishes...
View ArticleAid Agencies Struggle to Bring Help
We got this email on Sunday from Carol Fipp, an aid worker with The Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti. She is trying to coordinate an airlift of injured quake victims from Port-au-Prince to their...
View ArticleUpdate from Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti
An update from Carol Fipp, an aid worker with The Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti. Fipp wrote to us on Sunday, frustrated with how slowly their waiting hospital was receiving patients from...
View ArticleTalking to Haiti's Overstretched Doctors
After the earthquake, injured Haitians flooded the hospital. Now, some of them are cured, but like the 700,000 other homeless Haitians, they have nowhere to go. So they turn to their doctors for help,...
View ArticleA Major Health Scare for Missouri Veterans
A St. Louis veterans hospital may have infected thousands of its patients with HIV and hepatitis. The Department of Veterans Affairs mailed letters out to 1,812 veterans, warning them they may...
View ArticleDo Roombas Dream of Electric Sheep?: The Practical Application of Artificial...
When we speak of robots, we tend to discuss mechanical taskmasters sent to the bottom of the ocean to fix broken pipes or a machine sent to diffuse a bomb. To date, robots have been used to tackle jobs...
View ArticleClown Care Unit
At the Babies and Children's Hospital in upper Manhattan, you'll hear the normal medical beeps and buzzes, doctors rushing around to their young patients. Some days you'll also hear laughter — which...
View ArticleMy Family Remembers
Just three out of every million Americans are diagnosed each year with a potentially fatal blood disease called Aplastic Anemia. Edward was one of them. He was 12 years old when he entered the hospital...
View ArticleSt. Vincent's - Mt. Sinai Deal Falls Through
St. Vincent’s Medical Center of New York and Mount Sinai Medical Center are no longer in merger talks. A deal was all but killed yesterday when Mt. Sinai said it wouldn't acquire St. Vincent’s...
View ArticleNY Funds Hospitals to Fill St. Vincent's Void
New York State is helping an Upper East Side hospital assume some of the functions of St. Vincent's Medical Center, as the Greenwich Village hospital prepares to close its doors for good.Lenox Hill...
View ArticleSt. Vincent's Hospital Shuts its Doors
St. Vincent's Hospital is closing for good today after months of feuding and years of financial struggles. The 160-year-old Greenwich Village institution will stop accepting even emergency cases at 7...
View ArticleSt. Barnabas Interns, Residents Can Join Union
Medical interns and residents at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx have won the right to vote for a union. That's because the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that interns and residents are...
View ArticleNYU Med Center Critics Say Hospital Under-Serves City's Poor
NYU Medical Center recently made public its plans for expansion but critics call it one of the city's worst when it comes to serving the city's poor.The hospital, which announced Wednesday that it will...
View ArticleHoboken Sells Hospital to Keep it Open
The Hoboken University Medical Center may be under new management by the end of the week. New Jersey's Department of Health is expected to approve a sale that would transfer nearly $52 million in...
View ArticleClosure Looms for Lone Acute Care Hospital in Southeast Queens
The latest metro-area hospital on the brink of closure has won a couple more days to present a restructuring plan. Peninsula Hospital — the only acute care facility in the Rockaways and southeast...
View ArticleNY Downtown Hospital Reaches $13M Fraud Settlement
New York Downtown Hospital must pay back $13.4 million in illegal charges to Medicare and Medicaid.The settlement follows allegations that New York Downtown had been illegally contracting with an out...
View ArticleNYU Starts Seeing Some Patients, but Bulk of Hospital Remains Closed
New York University Langone Medical Center reopened many of its outpatient offices, and the 600 students in the medical school went back to classes – but it’s still not clear when the hospital will...
View ArticleFreakonomics Radio: The Truth Is Out There … Isn’t It?
Dates and times for this program: Wednesdays: 8pm on 93.9FM; Saturdays: 6am on 93.9FM and NJPR, 2pm on AM820 and 4pm on 93.9FM; Sundays: 8pm on AM820 and NJPRUntil not so long ago, chicken feet were...
View ArticleLICH Keeps Losing Patients As Court Order is Appealed
SUNY Downstate is discharging patients and diverting ambulances from Brooklyn's Long Island College Hospital despite a temporary restraining order. SUNY says it is still diverting because it filed an...
View ArticleSheri Fink on Five Days at Memorial Hospital in New Orleans
Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink investigates patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and tells the story of the quest for truth and justice following the storm. As...
View ArticleSome NY Hospitals Opting Out of Health Exchange Plans
If consumers buying insurance on health exchanges have their heart set on particular hospitals or doctors, they better do their homework.Some hospital systems, such as NYU Langone Medical Center and...
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[Unedited] Esther Sternberg with Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett spoke with immunologist Esther Sternberg on March 30, 2012. This unedited interview is included in our show, "The Science of Healing Places." Download the mp3 of the produced show at...
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Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places
The light and smells in places like hospitals can often depress us. And, our favorite room at home keeps us sane. But why? Immunologist Esther Sternberg explains the scientific research revealing how...
View ArticleNYU Returns to Table for Long Island College Hospital
NYU Langone Medical Center has re-entered negotiations to operate part of Long Island College Hospital, the shuttered facility known as LICH in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn.Facing court action,...
View ArticleBogus screws ended up in spines of surgery patients
When it comes to medical hardware, who’s got your back? The Food and Drug Administration is supposed to ensure that equipment going inside people’s bodies is manufactured by companies approved by the...
View ArticleWho’s responsible when America’s your drug dealer?
Overdose deaths among veterans treated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs occur at a rate nearly double the national average. Reporter Aaron Glantz has been following this story for two years....
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Hospital Struggles to Stay Open Awaiting Christie Approval to Sell to Highest...
Karim Aquil Sharif has been a patient at every hospital in Newark. He knows all the emergency room doctors.“I used to know them all on a first name basis,” Sharif said. “And all the ambulance drivers...
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Drugs taken in hospitals may be dangerous to your financial health
Photo by Comstock Images/Getty ImagesEditor’s Note: Journalist Philip Moeller, who writes widely on health and retirement, is here to provide the Medicare answers you need in “Ask Phil, the Medicare...
View ArticleChildren's Hospital Attacked in Syria
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.The Al Quds hospital in the Syrian city of Aleppo was attacked on Thursday despite a "cessation of hostilities" agreement that is supposed to...
View ArticleBeth Israel Downsizing Adds to Major Cutbacks by NYC Hospitals
Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital is scheduled to close in the next few years and reopen as a smaller facility.Fred Mogul, WNYC healthcare and medicine reporter, discusses the hospital's impending...
View ArticlePolling NJ Voters; Libertarians Choose A Candidate; Your Low-Brow Inspirations
Coming up on today's show:Clinton could clinch the nomination in New Jersey. Monmouth University Polling Institute director Patrick Murray talks about national politics with an eye on New Jersey...
View ArticleMount Sinai CEO Says 800-Bed Hospitals Are Not the Future of Healthcare
Kenneth L. Davis MD, president and chief executive officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, talks about the future of Beth Israel Hospital after its Union Square building closes and it relocates to a...
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In the hospital on Election Day? You can still vote. Here’s how
Illustration by Mike Reddy/STATOn Nov. 4, 2008, I watched with friends as Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. The future was here. The Oval Office was open to someone like me. It...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of Medicare During Turbulent Times
Philip Moeller, who writes the "Making Sen$e" Medicare column for the PBS NewsHour website and reports on aging, health and retirement for Money magazine, shares advice from his latest book, Get What's...
View ArticleTwo Alarm Fire Breaks Out at NYU Hospital Under Construction
Flames shot from the roof of a New York City hospital building that's under construction as firefighters fought to bring it under control. There were no immediate reports of injuries.NYU Langone...
View ArticleVIDEO: 9 Moms Tell Their Real Stories About Childbirth
Some mothers go into labor expecting an onslaught of needles and pain. Others envision a warm, inviting spa-like scene, like something out of a TLC show. The reality often matches neither of those...
View ArticleAn Immigrant Doctor on the Immigration Ban
There is a shortage of doctors in many rural regions of the United States, and the physicians who take jobs in rural clinics and hospitals, which pay less than positions in urban centers, are often...
View ArticleCaring For Those At The End Of Life
Dr. Jessica Nutik Zitter joins us to talk about her book Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. She discusses her career path from wanting to be an ICU physician to becoming a...
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In remote Idaho, a tiny medical center charts a path for stressed rural...
An Arco, Idaho, resident gets in his car after checking on nearby animals last month. Photo by M. Scott Mahaskey/PoliticoARCO, Idaho — Just before dusk on an evening in early March, Mimi Rosenkrance...
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Column: 6 questions to ask at every doctor’s appointment
Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of “An American Sickness,” has six questions you should ask at every doctor’s appointment to make sure your medical bills are what you expect. Photo by Jim...
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Column: 5 questions to ask during your hospital stay
Elisabeth Rosenthal, author of “An American Sickness,” has five questions you should ask during your hospital stay to make sure you get the right care and soften the blow of the medical bills you’re...
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Column: The patients we do not see
“Many patients with the greatest unmet needs are therefore marginalized, with only glancing interactions with the health system – or none at all, in the most wrenching cases of suicide, drug overdose...
View ArticleRethinking End Of Life Care
Jessica Nutik Zitter joins us to talk about her book Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life. She discusses her career path from wanting to be an ICU physician to becoming a doctor...
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How nurses are fighting the war against sepsis
Dawn Nagel checks up on patient Scott Steffens, 67, at St. Joseph Hoag Health in Orange County, Calif., on April 27, 2017. Nagel informed Steffens he needs to treated for sepsis. (Heidi de...
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Esther Sternberg — The Science of Healing Places
The light and smells in places like hospitals can often depress us. And, our favorite room at home keeps us sane. But why? Immunologist Esther Sternberg explains the scientific research revealing how...
View ArticleAs Harvey Hits, Looking Back at New Orleans
We changed our plans for Death, Sex & Money this week as we watched the storm known as Harvey pummel the Gulf Coast. It's made us think about the conversations we had in New Orleans two years ago,...
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