Prognosis: Misconception

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annie
 Apr 14, 2021
Interesting enough material, but the host mispronounced the name of the town Humble, TX (the 'h' is silent) for an entire episode. Her interview subject pronounced it correctly several times, why didn't she learn from that?

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Reality TV stars are freezing their eggs on camera. Lawmakers in DC are debating federal protection for IVF. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in slick startups that market fertility treatments for all. But this rapid growth has revealed cracks in the system. Misconception, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, follows reporter Kristen V. Brown on her own intimate journey as she uncovers the business of fertility. Along the way, she finds a fractured industry — a profit-driven field of medicine that thrives on dueling messages of hope and fear as people gamble everything for a chance at a baby.


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Introducing: Misconception
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Misconception: The Baby Boom
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Covid Cures and Conspiracies Introducing: The Deadly Cure
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Losing It: Gut Instinct
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Losing It: The Truth About Health and Weight
Aug 09, 2022
Losing It: Just Don’t Call it A Diet
Aug 02, 2022
Losing It: A Weight-Loss Mecca’s Secrets
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Losing It: How to Launch a Diet Empire
Jul 19, 2022
Losing It: Once Upon a Diet
Jul 12, 2022
Losing It: When a Calorie Isn’t A Calorie
Jul 12, 2022
Introducing: Losing It
Jul 02, 2022
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Breakthrough: The Next Pandemic
Dec 14, 2021
Breakthrough: The Future of mRNA
Dec 07, 2021
Breakthrough: The Vaccine Race
Nov 30, 2021
Breakthrough: Unlikely Heroes
Nov 23, 2021
Breakthrough: The Covid Fortress
Nov 16, 2021
Breakthrough: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail
Nov 09, 2021
Breakthrough: Rehab for Long Haulers
Nov 02, 2021
Breakthrough: How the Dead Are Helping the Living
Oct 26, 2021
Breakthrough: Long Covid’s Early Origins
Oct 19, 2021
Introducing: Breakthrough
Oct 06, 2021
Doubt, Bonus: A Surprising Southern Success
Sep 28, 2021
Doubt: Hope
Apr 20, 2021
Doubt: Getting Out of the Boat
Apr 13, 2021
Doubt: 'Let's Go to War'
Apr 06, 2021
Doubt: The Happiest Place on Earth
Mar 30, 2021
Doubt: The Man Behind The Myth
Mar 23, 2021
Doubt: Rumor Has It
Mar 23, 2021
What Closing Schools Has Done to Kids
Mar 15, 2021
The Science of Beating Variants
Mar 12, 2021
Introducing: Doubt
Mar 11, 2021
One Year
Mar 10, 2021
What Israel Can Teach Us
Mar 08, 2021
Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3
Mar 08, 2021
Is Pfizer's Vaccine Plan Fair?
Mar 05, 2021
Nursing Home Deaths Become a Political Football
Mar 03, 2021
Johnson & Johnson's CEO on the Newest Vaccine
Mar 01, 2021
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Feb 26, 2021
The Second Shot Squeeze
Feb 24, 2021
How the Vaccines Will Change Our Lives
Feb 22, 2021
The Good Kind of Surge
Feb 19, 2021
Fixing Vaccine Inequity
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Combating COVID in the ER
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The Pop-Up Vaccine Factories
Feb 12, 2021
Racing to Update the Vaccines For Variants
Feb 10, 2021
The Bitter Fight Over What's Safe For Schools
Feb 08, 2021
The Covid Symptoms Hidden in Our Voices
Feb 05, 2021
The Career Problem-Solver Taking on the Pandemic
Feb 03, 2021
Some Health Workers Can't Get a Vaccine
Feb 01, 2021
Can Biden's CDC Rehab Its Reputation?
Jan 29, 2021
We're Not Hunting Hard Enough For Variants
Jan 27, 2021
What to Do About Schools
Jan 25, 2021
Can Drugstores Save Us?
Jan 22, 2021
The Global Vaccine Gap
Jan 20, 2021
Where to Be in a Pandemic (Rebroadcast)
Jan 18, 2021
Can We Fix the Chaotic Vaccine Rollout?
Jan 15, 2021
Why Healthcare Workers Refuse the Vaccine
Jan 13, 2021
What Allergic Vaccine Reactions Mean For You
Jan 11, 2021
The U.K. Health System Threatens to Buckle
Jan 08, 2021
Vaccines via Eventbrite
Jan 06, 2021
Vaccinating the Worst-Hit Southeast Asian Country
Jan 04, 2021
How It All Started (Rebroadcast)
Jan 01, 2021
What We Know About Covid's Origins
Dec 30, 2020
A New Technology Hiding in Covid Vaccines
Dec 23, 2020
Lessons From Past Vaccines
Dec 21, 2020
How Companies Are Lining Up Shots for Workers
Dec 18, 2020
Voices From the U.S. Vaccine Program
Dec 16, 2020
Louisiana's Vaccine Test Run
Dec 14, 2020
The Doctor Behind the Government's Vaccine Deals
Dec 11, 2020
Who Should Get the First Doses?
Dec 09, 2020
A Turning Point Week Ahead
Dec 07, 2020
The Struggle to Distribute the Vaccine
Dec 04, 2020
Biden’s Pandemic Response Overhaul
Dec 02, 2020
A Bubble Made Up of Millions
Nov 30, 2020
Business, Interrupted
Nov 27, 2020
Where to Be in a Pandemic
Nov 25, 2020
Governors Brace For Winter
Nov 23, 2020
Can Enclosed Outdoor Dining Really Be Safe?
Nov 20, 2020
Can We Make Enough Covid Drugs?
Nov 18, 2020
Dr. Fauci on What the Vaccine News Means
Nov 16, 2020
A Global Virus Report Card
Nov 13, 2020
Special Edition: The Next Year of the Virus
Nov 11, 2020
The Cost of Taking Cases to Zero
Nov 09, 2020
One College Is Containing Covid
Nov 06, 2020
Your Questions About the Coming Winter
Nov 04, 2020
Inside the Push For a Vaccine in the U.S.
Nov 02, 2020
Fighting the Misinformation Crisis
Oct 30, 2020
The Obsession With a Vaccine Could Hurt Us
Oct 28, 2020
An Addictive Trading App Gets a Quarantine Boost
Oct 26, 2020
The Dangers of Pollution in a Pandemic
Oct 23, 2020
What Herd Immunity Really Means
Oct 21, 2020
Europe's Coronavirus Déjà Vu
Oct 19, 2020
What the NBA Bubble Can Teach Us
Oct 16, 2020
U.S. Vaccine Distribution Strategy is a Mess
Oct 14, 2020
The Virus Dogs Trump's Campaign
Oct 12, 2020
The Risk to Overweight People
Oct 09, 2020
Trump's Dream of an Ultra-Fast Vaccine is Crushed
Oct 07, 2020
The Fringe Scientists Making a Homemade Vaccine
Oct 05, 2020
What Trump's Diagnosis Means
Oct 02, 2020
The New York Case Spike
Sep 30, 2020
What We Can't Know About a Vaccine
Sep 28, 2020
The Test Market Is a Free-for-All
Sep 25, 2020
The People Who Get Covid Twice
Sep 23, 2020
The Pandemic Census
Sep 21, 2020
Another Ugly Number
Sep 18, 2020
A Loud Voice Can Be a Virus Ally
Sep 16, 2020
The Slim Chance of a Cure
Sep 14, 2020
How the Virus Will Be Different This Winter
Sep 11, 2020
Getting the Public to Trust a Vaccine
Sep 09, 2020
Learning As We Go
Sep 07, 2020
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Sep 04, 2020
A System Shock to the Real Estate Economy
Sep 02, 2020
The Swedish Strategy
Aug 31, 2020
South Africa's Multiple Epidemics
Aug 28, 2020
The FDA Under Pressure
Aug 26, 2020
What Do We Really Know About Plasma?
Aug 24, 2020
The Future of Packed Tourist Towns
Aug 21, 2020
The Pandemic During Flu Season
Aug 19, 2020
The Shadow Over College Athletics
Aug 17, 2020
Our Vaccine Expectations Are Unrealistic
Aug 14, 2020
The Race Gap in Clinical Trials
Aug 12, 2020
The Cost of Keeping Schools Safe
Aug 10, 2020
A Generation of Health Damage
Aug 07, 2020
Will Kids Spread COVID to Teachers?
Aug 05, 2020
The Promise of a New Treatment
Aug 03, 2020
What We Know About Immunity
Jul 31, 2020
The Data Disaster in the U.S.
Jul 29, 2020
Why a Vaccine Won't Create Instant Immunity
Jul 27, 2020
Why The Crisis Hurts Maine's Lobster Industry
Jul 24, 2020
The Campaign to Lure You Back to the Doctor
Jul 22, 2020
The Latin American Country That's Beating Covid
Jul 20, 2020
The First Vaccine May Not Be the Best
Jul 17, 2020
Introducing: Blood River, A New Podcast From Bloomberg
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The Story Behind the Six Foot Rule
Jul 15, 2020
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Jul 13, 2020
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Jul 10, 2020
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Jul 08, 2020
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Jul 06, 2020
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Jul 03, 2020
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Jun 23, 2020
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Jun 22, 2020
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Jun 19, 2020
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Jun 18, 2020
Should You Take an Antibody Test?
Jun 17, 2020
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Jun 16, 2020
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Jun 15, 2020
The Effect of Quarantine on Kids
Jun 12, 2020
The New Threat to Mexico's Failing Hospitals
Jun 11, 2020
Understanding Silent Spreaders
Jun 10, 2020
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Jun 09, 2020
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Jun 08, 2020
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Jun 05, 2020
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Jun 04, 2020
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Jun 03, 2020
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Jun 02, 2020
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Jun 01, 2020
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May 29, 2020
A New Vaccine Frontrunner
May 28, 2020
How Many People Have Really Died?
May 27, 2020
Virus Hunting With the 'Pirate CDC'
May 26, 2020
The Home Run Approach
May 25, 2020
Curing Social Distance Fatigue
May 22, 2020
The Dire Situation at U.S. Prisons
May 21, 2020
The Rise of Vaccine Nationalism
May 20, 2020
The True Origins of the Virus
May 19, 2020
The Virus Trackers
May 18, 2020
Can The Aviation Industry Afford To Keep You Safe?
May 15, 2020
This Drug Maker Saw the Pandemic Coming
May 14, 2020
The Scary Implications of 'Covid Toe'
May 13, 2020
Your Quarantine Questions, Answered
May 12, 2020
New Fears About Kids Getting Sick
May 11, 2020
Is the Virus Getting Worse?
May 08, 2020
The Problem With Antibody Tests
May 07, 2020
Inside a Vaccine Clinical Trial
May 06, 2020
We May Never Have A Vaccine
May 05, 2020
Fraying Mental Health on the Front Lines
May 04, 2020
The Dangers of Superfast Science
May 01, 2020
What Puts Patients at Risk
Apr 30, 2020
Who's Really Immune?
Apr 29, 2020
The Problem With Trump's Testing Plan
Apr 28, 2020
All Eyes on Iceland
Apr 27, 2020
Life Can Be Hell After a Ventilator
Apr 24, 2020
Life After Lockdown in Wuhan
Apr 23, 2020
The Patients Left Behind
Apr 22, 2020
Inside China's Chaotic Mask Market
Apr 21, 2020
The Other Epidemic
Apr 20, 2020
A Cure in Survivors' Blood?
Apr 17, 2020
The One-Two Punch to Black America
Apr 16, 2020
A Covid Early Warning Sign
Apr 15, 2020
Apple and Amazon vs. the Virus
Apr 14, 2020
What Happened to the CDC?
Apr 13, 2020
How It All Started
Apr 10, 2020
Hunting For the Virus in Sewage
Apr 09, 2020
A Mental Health Crisis Worsens
Apr 08, 2020
How to Wear a Mask
Apr 07, 2020
This is How We End It
Apr 06, 2020
What Germany Did Right
Apr 03, 2020
The Case For Writing Every American a Check
Apr 02, 2020
When Will We Have a Vaccine?
Apr 01, 2020
When You Can't Go See the Doctor
Mar 31, 2020
This is How the Virus Kills
Mar 30, 2020
Prognosis Daily: The Coronavirus Detectives
Mar 27, 2020
Special Episode: Understanding Pandemics
Mar 26, 2020
Prognosis Daily: What Went Wrong With Testing
Mar 26, 2020
Announcing Prognosis Daily: Coronavirus
Mar 24, 2020
Introducing Deep Background with Noah Feldman: Civil Liberties in the Time of COVID-19
Mar 17, 2020
Superbugs' Natural Predator (Rebroadcast)
Feb 27, 2020
Superbugs Force a Deadly Choice for Cancer Patients (Rebroadcast)
Feb 20, 2020
The Skinny on Diet and Health Apps (Rebroadcast)
Feb 13, 2020
Engineering Your Own Pancreas (Rebroadcast)
Feb 06, 2020
How to Buy a Better Birth
Jan 30, 2020
Fixing Health Care for the People It Often Fails
Jan 23, 2020
The Doctor, the Patient, and Everything in Between
Jan 16, 2020
How U.S. Health Care Broke The Bank
Jan 09, 2020
Introducing Prognosis Season 4: America's Broken Health-Care Costs
Jan 08, 2020
Coming Soon: Travel Genius Season 2
Oct 29, 2019
Introducing Stephanomics Season 2
Oct 02, 2019
Fighting Back Against Killer Superbugs
Sep 26, 2019
The Mystery That Makes Hospitals Sick
Sep 19, 2019
Superbugs' Natural Predator
Sep 12, 2019
Superbugs Force a Deadly Choice for Cancer Patients
Sep 05, 2019
Introducing Prognosis Season 3: Superbugs
Aug 26, 2019
Why China Loves DNA Tests for Babies
Jul 04, 2019
The Skinny on Diet and Health Apps
Jun 20, 2019
“I’ve Given Up on the Idea of Privacy”
Jun 06, 2019
Gift Cards for Your DNA Data
May 23, 2019
Should We Be Scared of Our DNA?
May 09, 2019
Why the Mormon Church Loves Your DNA
Apr 25, 2019
Introducing "What Goes Up," A New Show From Bloomberg
Apr 19, 2019
Building a Better Period-Tracking App
Apr 11, 2019
Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 2
Apr 05, 2019
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Mar 28, 2019
Coming Soon: Prognosis Season 2
Mar 21, 2019
A Message from The Pay Check
Feb 08, 2019
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Dec 24, 2018
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Dec 17, 2018
One Drug's Journey
Dec 10, 2018
The Quest for a Weight-Loss Drug That Actually Works
Dec 03, 2018
Decoding the Genome Was Just the Beginning
Nov 26, 2018
Searching For a Cure to PTSD at Burning Man
Nov 19, 2018
Biohacking a Ripped Frog
Nov 12, 2018
How To Build Your Own Artificial Pancreas
Nov 05, 2018
Prognosis, a New Show From Bloomberg
Oct 24, 2018