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Earworms … Eeeewwww!!!
I can’t remember when or where I first came across the word ‘earworm,’ but I can never forget the first time I used the word in this newsroom [...]
The World’s Northernmost Botanical Garden
We are looking for a city at the very top of Europe that has the world’s northernmost botanical garden.
Responses to Rationing Health series forum
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Our series last week about health care rationing has generated a lively online discussion. Listeners are sharing their thoughts with journalist Sheri Fink and Harvard ethicist Dan Wikler. Check out what others have written in, and bring your own stories and thoughts to the conversation. Sheri Fink and Dan Wikler are taking your questions until December 31st.Download MP3
Rationing Health in disasters
Medical rationing sometimes seems inevitable during disasters. Major earthquakes, floods, and pandemics can leave health workers scrambling to care for all the patients who need attention and can force some patients to go without. But even in such dire circumstances, can rationing be avoided? Sheri Fink found a doctor in India with a hopeful tale.
Part 4: India: Rationing in disasters
Discuss medical rationing in the US
For some perspective on medical rationing in the US, we invited Dan Wikler. He’s an ethics professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former staff ethicist for the World Health Organization. You can join the conversation with Dan Wikler and Sheri Fink at theworld.org/rationinghealth
The discussion is live through next week.
Rationing Health Care in Zambia
The rationing of health care is not always obvious or explicit. Implicit factors may determine who receives care and who does not.One such factor may have imposed a form of unintentional rationing on AIDS care in the Southern African nation of Zambia, as David Baron reports.
Rationing Health Care in Britain
Some argue that the goal of medical rationing should be to focus resources where they will offer the greatest health benefit to the greatest number of people.That is the aim of the UK’s rationing plan but Britain’s plan is now under fire. Patrick Cox has part 2 of our series. (Photo: Mark Wessels)
Rationing Health series
In South Africa, the government puts limits on life-sustaining kidney dialysis, and that puts medical professionals in a difficult position. They have to decide who lives and who dies. Reporter Sheri Fink has the first in a four-part series on health care rationing around the world.
Rationing Health: Who Lives? Who Decides?
As medical costs rise and budgets tighten, some fear the United States will be forced to ration health care. Starting Tuesday, PRI’s The World will take a global look at the controversial issue with perspectives from four countries.
Einstein@Home makes discovery
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An international astronomy project, which uses the computing power of 250,000 home computers, has made its first discovery. The Einstein@Home project has found a rare type of pulsar — a dense star that emits pulses of radiation. The World’s science reporter Rhitu Chatterjee has the story.(Image: B. Knispel, Albert Einstein Institute) David Baron contributed to this report. Download MP3U.S. joins Japan to remember Hiroshima
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Download MP3Japan today paused to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima. Thousands gathered for the ceremony including for the first time, official representatives of the United States. Anchor David Baron speaks about the significance of this with Leonard Spector, an expert in nuclear non-proliferation.
Yoshida Brothers rock the shamisen
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The Tsugaru shamisen is a traditonal Japanese stringed instrument that looks like a remote cousin of the banjo, with a very long neck. Two Japanese brothers are investing their talent into keeping the Tsugaru shamisen alive and well. Ryoichiro and Kenichi Yoshida, known as– the Yoshida Brothers– stopped by our Boston studios to speak with The World’s David Baron.(Photo: Steven Davy)
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Cloned cows spark food fears in Europe
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Download MP3Anchor David Baron speaks with The World’s science reporter, Rhitu Chatterjee, about the revelation that milk and meat from the offspring of cloned cattle may have made their way into the British food chain.
Lebanon and Israel exchange gun fire
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Lebanese and Israeli soldiers exchanged gun fire in a border dispute that left four people dead Tuesday. It was the most significant fighting there since the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. Anchor David Baron talks with The World’s Matthew Bell who is on the Israeli side of the border.(Photo: Alon Tuval)Download MP3
Karachi erupts in violence
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Several dozen people have been killed in political and ethnic violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Anchor David Baron gets the details and background from journalist, Beena Sarwar, in Karachi.(Photo: Asif Hassan /AFP/Getty Images)Download MP3
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