A Blackpine original

The Weight
of Progress

A reported series about appetite, medicine and the private decisions reshaping public health.

Latest episode · 07

After the Breakthrough: Who Gets to Feel Better?

31:42

Latest episodes

Season one

Episode 07 · 31 min

New treatments changed the conversation. Access, cost and long-term care are still catching up.

▶Listen nowAug 28

Episode 06 · 27 min

Inside a research unit where tiny measurements carry enormous hopes for patients and families.

▶Listen nowAug 14

Episode 05 · 35 min

Three generations describe how advice about food moved from culture into clinics—and back again.

▶Listen nowJul 31

Episode 04 · 29 min

Demand arrived faster than supply. Pharmacists and patients recount a year of hard tradeoffs.

▶Listen nowJul 17

Episode 03 · 24 min

Coverage decisions often happen out of view. We follow one appeal from denial to review.

▶Listen nowJul 03

Episode 02 · 33 min

The unlikely chain of laboratories, observations and calculated risks behind a new class of care.

▶Listen nowJun 19

About this series

Reported by Mara Ellison, The Weight of Progress examines what happens when a medical idea leaves the lab and enters everyday life.