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Prognosis: Misconception

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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...

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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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  1. Introducing: Levittown

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  2. Listen Now: Beak Capitalism from Odd Lots

    1 min

  3. Misconception: Great Expectations

    Season 9, episode 418 min

  4. Misconception: Big Baby

    Season 9, episode 324 min

  5. Misconception: Money Money Money

    Season 9, episode 226 min

  6. Introducing: Misconception

    Trailer1 min

  7. Misconception: The Baby Boom

    Season 9, episode 123 min

  8. Introducing: Bloomberg News Now

    51 s

  9. Introducing: Elon, Inc.

    43 s

  10. Covid Cures and Conspiracies Introducing: The Deadly Cure

    Bonus6 min

Show 40 older episodes

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  2. Targeting the Toughest Diseases (Sponsored Content)

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  3. Losing It: Gut Instinct

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  4. Losing It: The Truth About Health and Weight

    Season 8, episode 653 min

  5. Losing It: Just Don’t Call it A Diet

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  6. Losing It: A Weight-Loss Mecca’s Secrets

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  7. Losing It: How to Launch a Diet Empire

    Season 8, episode 343 min

  8. Losing It: Once Upon a Diet

    Season 8, episode 246 min

  9. Losing It: When a Calorie Isn’t A Calorie

    Season 8, episode 137 min

  10. Introducing: Losing It

    Trailer2 min

  11. We've Been Nominated for a Webby!

    Bonus1 min

  12. Breakthrough: The Next Pandemic

    Season 7, episode 935 min

  13. Breakthrough: The Future of mRNA

    Season 7, episode 827 min

  14. Breakthrough: The Vaccine Race

    Season 7, episode 735 min

  15. Breakthrough: Unlikely Heroes

    Season 7, episode 637 min

  16. Breakthrough: The Covid Fortress

    Season 7, episode 529 min

  17. Breakthrough: Covid’s Long, Scary Tail

    Season 7, episode 425 min

  18. Breakthrough: Rehab for Long Haulers

    Season 7, episode 329 min

  19. Breakthrough: How the Dead Are Helping the Living

    Season 7, episode 233 min

  20. Breakthrough: Long Covid’s Early Origins

    Season 7, episode 129 min

  21. Introducing: Breakthrough

    2 min

  22. Doubt, Bonus: A Surprising Southern Success

    Bonus36 min

  23. Doubt: Hope

    Season 6, episode 649 min

  24. Doubt: Getting Out of the Boat

    Season 6, episode 539 min

  25. Doubt: 'Let's Go to War'

    Season 6, episode 448 min

  26. Doubt: The Happiest Place on Earth

    Season 6, episode 341 min

  27. Doubt: The Man Behind The Myth

    Season 6, episode 257 min

  28. Doubt: Rumor Has It

    Season 6, episode 140 min

  29. What Closing Schools Has Done to Kids

    Season 5, episode 17611 min

  30. The Science of Beating Variants

    Season 5, episode 17512 min

  31. Introducing: Doubt

    2 min

  32. One Year

    Season 5, episode 17424 min

  33. What Israel Can Teach Us

    Season 5, episode 17313 min

  34. Coming Soon: The Pay Check Season 3

    3 min

  35. Is Pfizer's Vaccine Plan Fair?

    Season 5, episode 17216 min

  36. Nursing Home Deaths Become a Political Football

    Season 5, episode 17116 min

  37. Johnson & Johnson's CEO on the Newest Vaccine

    Season 5, episode 17013 min

  38. Can the Arts Recover?

    Season 5, episode 1699 min

  39. The Second Shot Squeeze

    Season 5, episode 16816 min

  40. How the Vaccines Will Change Our Lives

    Season 5, episode 1678 min

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