Health

Alaska Legislative Digest’s Tim Bradner interviews Heidi Hedberg.

Alaska Legislative Digest’s Tim Bradner interviews Jared Kosin.

Author and photographer Amy Gulick discusses her book “The Salmon Way” – An inspiring look into the lives of Alaskans and salmon and how they intertwine.

Editor Anjuli Grantham & Fishtorian Bob King discuss the book Tin Can Country: Southeast Alaska’s Historic Salmon Canneries.

Host Tim Bradner, Alaska Legislative Digest talks with Senator Cathy Giessel about funding with respect to vaccinations in Alaska.

Host Tim Bradner, Alaska Legislative Digest talks with Senator Cathy Giessel about rising coasts of healthcare and what can be done about that.

Host Tim Bradner, Alaska Legislative Digest talks with Pat Pitney, Director of Management and Budget about the state’s medical costs.

Alaska regularly ranks at or near the top in health care costs. Leading experts from state government, the hospital and nursing home industry, and the insurance industry discuss why. They’ll also talk about how they’re trying to push these costs down. The panelists include Alaska Division of Insurance Director Lori Wing-Heier, Alaska State Hospital and…

Would a single payer health care system be good for Alaska? Dr. Carol Paris, president of Physicians for a National Health Program, advocates for a single payer health care system. Policy expert Sandra Heffern with the AK Health Reform coalition and Juneau general surgeon Dr. David Miller will discuss the concept, and why it might…

The last twenty years produced an explosion of understanding about addiction (substance use disorders) and how our brains enable our most human capacities such as assigning value to pleasure and making decisions based upon that value. This lecture summarizes the most current neuroscientific research about addiction — research that explains how the brain constructs pleasurable…