April 8, 2011  |   The news this week in Washington is all budget, all the time: Will Congress work out a budget deal before Friday's midnight deadline, or will the federal government close until a compromise can be found? The Obama administration says that...

March 31, 2011  |   Medicare will encourage doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to team up to provide more coordinated care for patients, according to federal guidelines released Thursday. The new draft regulations, which are part of the health care reform law,...

March 25, 2011  |   The health reform law turned one this week, and opponents and proponents of the bill each used the occasion to advance their messages. Obama administration officials and health reform advocates fanned out across the country to promote the bill and...

March 23, 2011  |   On Monday, we asked for your questions on health care reform. It's been one year since the law passed, and polls show that many Americans say they're still confused about the law. We put your questions before four analysts....

March 21, 2011  |   Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of health care reform -- and, it seems, Americans are as confused as ever about the law. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey PDF found that 52 percent of people say they don't have...

March 18, 2011  |   Next Wednesday the health care reform law turns one, and the White House and other supporters of reform are planning a public relations push to mark the birthday. A coalition of advocacy groups will host 200 town-hall meetings and other...

March 16, 2011  |   As the nuclear crisis continued in Japan Wednesday, the world's attention turned to small corps of thus far anonymous workers who make up the last line of defense against a nuclear catastrophe at the earthquake and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi...

March 15, 2011  |   A doctor checks uses a geiger counter to check the level of radiation on a woman while a soldier in gas mask looks on at a radiation treatment centre in Nihonmatsu city in Fukushima prefecture on March 13, 2011....

March 11, 2011  |   In the news this week: Making health reform more flexible for states. On Wednesday, the federal government gave Maine a waiver good through 2013 that will exempt the state from enforcing part of the health reform law -- a new...

March 11, 2011  |   For many viewers, the photos and video from Japan Friday brought back images of the 2004 tsunami disaster in Indonesia -- debris-clogged water flooding streets, sweeping away houses and leaving destruction behind. The earthquake and the resulting tsunami in...

March 8, 2011  |   Nearly 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control estimate, and that number could expand to one-third of the U.S. population by 2050 if obesity and other trends continue. The NewsHour...

March 7, 2011  |   Playing a video game used to mean sitting, sedentarily, in front of a screen. But more recently, "exergames" such as Dance Dance Revolution and the Wii Fit have gotten game players off the couch. A study published Monday aims to...

March 4, 2011  |   File under "even when we agree, we disagree." Perhaps the only aspect of health reform on which Republicans and Democrats concur is the "1099" provision -- both parties say they want to repeal the unpopular measure that would burden small...

March 3, 2011  |   A Florida judge on Tuesday refused to order the government to stop implementing the health care reform law, handing the Obama administration at least a temporary victory in the ongoing legal battle over reform. U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson...

March 2, 2011  |   Aghaegbune "Ike" Odelugo fraudulently billed Medicare for nearly $10 million worth of medical equipment between 2005 and 2008. On Wednesday, a repentant Odelugo spoke before a congressional subcommittee about how simple it was to commit his crime -- and what...

March 1, 2011  |   It's one of the central debates around health care reform -- in the end, will the reform law cost too much, or will it actually save money? On Tuesday, Republican lawmakers and governors argued that it will cost too much...

February 25, 2011  |   It was one more mark in the judicial "win" column for supporters of the health care reform law this week, as a federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled that the law's individual mandate is constitutional. For those keeping score, that's...

February 25, 2011  |   Editor's note: "The King's Speech" won Oscars for best picture, best actor, best director and best original screenplay Sunday evening. "The King's Speech" is leading the Oscar buzz this year with 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The...

February 23, 2011  |   In the judicial back and forth over the health care reform law, the score is now three to two. On Tuesday, Federal District Court Judge Gladys Kessler of Washington, D.C. said that the law is constitutional. She tossed out...

February 22, 2011  |   A PET scan shows activation in the part of the brain nearest a cell phone antenna when the phone is turned on (left) and off (right) Talking on a cell phone increases the activity in the parts of your...

February 18, 2011  |   House Votes to Defund Health Reform The House passed three amendments Friday that would block the government from spending money to implement the health reform law for the rest of this fiscal year. The amendments, which were attached to a...

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February 16, 2011  |   Dr. Jaime Guevara-Aguirre, with members of an Ecuadorian family with Laron syndrome (photo courtesy Dr. Jaime Guevara-Aguirre) An extended family in the remote Ecuadorian Andes has been blessed, and cursed, with a rare genetic tradeoff. Members of the family...

February 11, 2011  |   GOP De-funding Effort to Start Next Week Republican lawmakers said Wednesday that they plan to use a spending bill that they'll bring to the House floor next week in their first effort to de-fund the health reform law. The spending...

February 4, 2011  |   The health reform law faced major challenges this week in the courts and in Congress. The big news of came Monday in Florida, when U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson became the second judge to declare the law's individual mandate unconstitutional....

February 3, 2011  |   A sand dune on Mars changes over the course of two seasons. (Image courtesy Science/AAAS). A Texas-sized field of sand dunes around Mars's north pole -- long thought to be a static, unchanging remnant of the planet's more active...

January 25, 2011  |   _pap_embeddable('news01s4723q101c',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); In his new book "The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease....

January 14, 2011  |   After Shooting, House Resumes Repeal Agenda House Republicans said Thursday that the House will take up a vote to repeal the health care reform law next week, resuming their legislative agenda one week after it was delayed by the...

January 11, 2011  |   Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect accused of killing six people this week and wounding 14 others, including his target Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, joins an infamous roster of gunmen -- 23-year-old Virginia Tech shooter Seung-hui Cho, Columbine high school seniors Eric...

January 10, 2011  |   On Monday, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' doctors said that the congresswoman is "not out of the woods yet" but that her brain has not shown any more signs of swelling, and that doctors are "slightly more optimistic" about her chances for...

January 7, 2011  |   Updated: Jan. 10, 11:50 a.m. Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Sunday postponed the House's legislative agenda, including a planned Wednesday vote to repeal health care reform, due to the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The NewsHour's Morning Line reports:...

January 6, 2011  |   A study that linked the Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism was "fraudulent," and based on manipulated data and patient records, according to an investigation published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. It may be the final death...

January 5, 2011  |   _pap_embeddable('news01s46d3q101c',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Republicans officially take control of the House today, and a vote to repeal the health care reform law is at the top of their agenda. But with President Obama in the White House and a Democratic-controlled...

January 3, 2011  |   Updated Jan. 5, 2011, 5:33 p.m. White House officials say that the Obama administration will the remove controversial references to end-of-life counseling during annual Medicare check-ups from a new Medicare regulation, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The move comes...

December 31, 2010  |   On the eve of 2011, the week started with the return of a phrase that you might not have thought about since 2009 -- "death panels." The New York Times reported over the weekend that, in a little-noticed government regulation...

December 27, 2010  |   In Wisconsin, the Republican party brought home landslide victories in November -- the state went from "a sea of blue to a sea of red," as the Racine Journal-Times described it, as Republicans won the governorship and control of the...

December 24, 2010  |   New Scrutiny for Insurers The big news of the week was rate review: Beginning next year, insurers who want to raise their rates more than 10 percent will face new government scrutiny, according to regulations the Obama administration released this...

December 22, 2010  |   A group of 9/11 first responders at a 2007 news conference next to Ground Zero; Spencer Platt/Getty Images Updated 2:38 p.m. ET The Senate has passed a $4.2 billion aid package for 9/11 responders and survivors. It's a smaller...

December 21, 2010  |   Beginning next year, health insurers who want to raise their rates by more than 10 percent will face strict new requirements to explain and make public the price increases, according to a regulation released by the Obama administration Tuesday. The...

December 17, 2010  |   After Verdict, Experts Consider the Individual Mandate Health reform challenges in court this week have revived a longstanding debate -- in order to work, does the law need to include the "individual mandate" that requires all Americans to buy insurance?...

December 16, 2010  |   (Photo by Jb Reed/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it is beginning the process of revoking approval for the drug Avastin for use in the treatment of breast cancer. In a statement, the...

December 16, 2010  |   Updated 5:30 p.m. Attorneys for the federal government and for 20 states made their cases about the constitutionality of the health care reform law in three hours of arguments before U.S. District Court Judge Roger Vinson Thursday. David Rivkin, an...

December 15, 2010  |   About one in six Americans -- 48 million people -- get sick from food poisoning every year, according to a new estimate released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control. The report marks the first time since 1999 that the...

December 14, 2010  |   More high school seniors have used marijuana in the past month than have smoked a cigarette, according to a federal study released Tuesday. The National Institutes of Health's annual Monitoring the Future study has surveyed trends in teen alcohol, tobacco...

December 13, 2010  |   Updated 4:02 p.m. Federal judge Henry Hudson ruled Monday afternoon that a major provision of the health care reform law is unconstitutional, setting up a legal battle that will likely end at the Supreme Court. In his decision, the...

December 10, 2010  |   Congress gave Medicare doctors a one-year reprieve from a looming pay cut this week. On Thursday, legislators passed a bill that will stave off a 25 percent cut in the Medicare reimbursement rate, which they paid for by shifting...

December 6, 2010  |   The price businesses pay for their workers' health insurance has ballooned more than 41 percent over the past six years, according to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund. At the same time, many workers are getting less for...

December 3, 2010  |   Citing Health Care, Republicans Say No to Deficit Plan President Obama's bipartisan Deficit Commission failed to get the 14 votes necessary to send its deficit reduction plan to a full vote in Congress. The plan made major cuts in federal...

December 2, 2010  |   Scientists found the microbe in California's Mono Lake (Photo Credit:Science/Henry Bortman) A newly discovered microbe that can survive on arsenic rather than phosphorus could change the way scientists think about life on earth and search for life on other...

December 1, 2010  |   Eggs, spinach, peanut butter, peppers -- after several years of headline-grabbing food recalls, the Senate on Tuesday approved the biggest food safety changes in 70 years, passing a sweeping bill that, if signed into law, would expand the power of...

November 30, 2010  |   We're starting something new at Rx for Reform. Each week, we'll update you on the latest health reform and health policy news happening in Washington, in statehouses, in courthouses and in the health care business. Here's a look at three...

November 30, 2010  |   Daily vitamin supplements including Vitamin D, far right. Photo via Flickr user Bradley J. A government report released early Tuesday raised the recommended amount of vitamin D that most American adults should consume from 200 international units to 600...

November 25, 2010  |   Students attend a 'Science Careers in Search of Women' event at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. (Argonne National Laboratory) A simple 15-minute writing exercise could help young women succeed in math and science classes, according to a study released...

November 22, 2010  |   Beginning next year, health insurers will have to follow a new set of rules that details how much money they must spend on patients' medical care, according to guidelines the Obama administration released Monday. The rules are part of the...

November 19, 2010  |   The makers of the painkillers Darvon and Darvocet on Friday pulled the drugs from the U.S. market at the Food and Drug Administration's request. The FDA made the move after new data showed that propoxyphene, the active ingredient in both...

November 18, 2010  |   After several years of high-profile salmonella outbreaks involving eggs, peanut butter and other foods, the Senate on Wednesday moved forward with the most significant food-safety bill in 70 years. If it passes, the bill would expand the Food and...

November 17, 2010  |   After months of waiting, Senate Republicans who had objected to Donald Berwick's appointment as Medicare chief got their first chance to question the new agency head Wednesday. Berwick defended the health care reform law, telling members of the Senate Finance...

November 16, 2010  |   Among its many provisions, the federal health care reform law allocates $10 billion over the next decade for Medicare and Medicaid to test new ways of paying doctors and hospitals, part of an effort to save money and improve patient...

November 15, 2010  |   For the tens of millions of Americans covered by Medicare, it's time to to begin poring over handbooks and pamphlets and considering health insurance options. Medicare open enrollment begins Monday and lasts until December 31, giving seniors their yearly chance...

November 15, 2010  |   Massachusetts passed a comprehensive health care reform law in 2006 that proved to be a model for the national law passed this year. Tonight on the NewsHour, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at how reform is working out in...

November 10, 2010  |   The Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages and ads on Wednesday. The new labels will be much bigger and more graphic than what U.S. consumers are used to seeing: They'll cover half of the...

November 9, 2010  |   One week after the midterm elections, pollsters and pundits are continuing to mull over the factors that caused voters to give the GOP a sweep of the House. Now, a new poll released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation finds...

November 4, 2010  |   A protest against the health reform law on March 17, 2010. Photo by AFP Many of the Republicans who swept to victory in the House Tuesday night campaigned on a promise to "repeal and replace" the health care reform...

October 27, 2010  |   With less than a week left to go before Election Day, a new round of ads is hitting TV screens targeting health care reform and the politicians who voted for it. The ads are the latest salvo in an...

October 25, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s44a6qf90', 'v91XQWn7AHo', '29'); In her new book "Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives," science writer Annie Murphy Paul dives into the often-controversial topic of fetal origins. In the book, which Paul wrote...

October 22, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s44a2qf90', 'v=mbvmTIvqGL8', '29'); Six months after oil began flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP's blown-out well is long capped but the effects of the spill are still being felt. Hari Sreenivasan spoke to Bob Marshall, who covers the...

October 21, 2010  |   State health insurance officials on Thursday approved rules that will guide how much money insurers must spend on patient care under the new health care reform law. The vote capped months of debate, and it provides an early glimpse of...

October 20, 2010  |   A new database compiled by the nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica allows patients, for the first time, to see whether their doctors are on a pharmaceutical company's payroll -- and if so, how much they're being paid. You can use...

October 19, 2010  |   Eight years ago, a major nationwide study found that post-menopausal women who took long-term hormone replacement therapy were more likely to develop breast cancer, heart disease and stroke than women who didn't. Now, a follow-up study released Tuesday finds...

October 18, 2010  |   Much of the coverage of the health care reform law in its early stages has focused on efforts to expand health insurance coverage. But the law has another focus as well -- improving the quality and value of medical care....

October 15, 2010  |   Stock futures jumped after a much-anticipated speech by Ben Bernanke Friday morning, in which the Fed chairman indicated that the central bank may need to do more to stimulate the economy and reduce unemployment. "There would appear -- all...

October 14, 2010  |   In a blow to the Obama administration, a federal judge in Florida ruled Thursday that a lawsuit challenging some of the major tenets of health care reform can go forward. The suit was brought by 20 state attorneys general, led...

October 14, 2010  |   Chilean president Sebastian Piñera sings the national anthem with chief supervisor Luis Urzua, the last miner to be rescued (Flickr Creative Commons/Rescate Mineros) NASA psychologist Al Holland has spent decades helping to prepare and support astronauts on long-term space...

October 14, 2010  |   People celebrate in Santiago after the last of the 33 miners was rescued (JORGE AMENGUAL/AFP/Getty Images) Less than 24 hours after the rescue operation began, the last of the 33 miners trapped underground for more than two months was...

October 13, 2010  |   Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that it will invest in an enormous new project to build an undersea transmission line off the mid-Atlantic coast that could bring energy from offshore wind farms to as many as 1.9 million...

October 13, 2010  |   Updated 1:00pm ET All 50 states have joined the joint investigation into the mortgage industry. Here's a statement from the National Association of Attorneys General. Posted 10:30 a.m. ET A group of 40 state attorneys general is set to announce...

October 12, 2010  |   Rescue operations for the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground for more than two months could begin as soon as midnight Tuesday. Below ground, the miners are preparing as well -- they've been sent shampoo and new clothes through the borehole...

October 7, 2010  |   Nearly four years after a mysterious die-off began decimating honeybee populations across the United States, researchers believe they may have a lead on a culprit -- or rather, two culprits. A virus and a fungus working together may be behind...

October 6, 2010  |   According to the National Oil Spill Commission investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf, the White House blocked efforts by federal scientists to tell the public the worst-case estimates of the leak in late April or early May....

October 4, 2010  |   Robert Edwards stands with Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby," her mother Lesley Brown and her son Cameron, in July 2008. (Photo credit: Bourn Hall Clinic) Updated 1:58 p.m. ET In the first of this week's Nobel...

October 1, 2010  |   U.S. officials apologized Friday for unethical medical experiments conducted in Guatemala more than 60 years ago, in which prison inmates were deliberately infected with syphilis. The experiments were conducted between 1946 and 1948 by Dr. John C. Cutler, a U.S....

October 1, 2010  |   Discussions between the Obama administration and McDonald's over how the fast-food giant's health insurance plans will fare in the wake of health care reform are putting the spotlight on "mini-med" plans -- the type of coverage that McDonald's offers...

September 29, 2010  |   Updated 2:37 p.m. ET Nine boxes of previously unknown letters, postcards and other correspondence from Francis Crick, one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA, have been unearthed in the files of his longtime colleague, according to an...

September 28, 2010  |   Updated 3:58 p.m. ET Despite their religious faith, many Americans are ignorant of key facts about their own and other world religions, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. In a survey...

September 23, 2010  |   As part of their "Pledge to America" released Thursday, Republican lawmakers codified what they have been saying for months: If elected, a Republican-led Congress would aim to "repeal and replace" health care reform. But with a Democratic president in the...

September 22, 2010  |   President Obama made a pitch for the benefits of health care reform on the eve of the law's six-month anniversary Wednesday. The president spoke to a small audience in a suburban backyard in Falls Church, Va., just outside Washington, D.C....

September 22, 2010  |   The health reform law hits its six-month anniversary Thursday, putting a first round of new consumer-protection provisions into effect. Below is a recap of the provisions that are about to go into effect, who they impact, and when consumers...

September 21, 2010  |   Among the health reform provisions that will go into effect Thursday -- on the six-month anniversary of the law's signing -- is a much-touted new rule banning insurers from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions. But this...

September 20, 2010  |   The Development Driller III rig used to drill the relief well (Photo: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg via Getty Images) After a weekend of final sealing and testing, the federal government on Sunday declared the Macondo oil well officially dead. The...

September 16, 2010  |   Updated 3:48 p.m. ET Driven by the recession, the percentage of Americans who live in poverty and the percentage of those who live without health insurance both rose in 2009, according to data released Thursday by the Census Bureau. About...

September 15, 2010  |   This week, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported that celebrated civil rights-era photographer Ernest Withers had been a paid informant for the FBI, reporting on the whereabouts and activities of the movement's leaders -- many of whom considered him a personal...

September 15, 2010  |   Two studies published this week suggest that a single prostate cancer screening test performed at a relatively young age could help men and their doctors decide whether or not they would benefit from regular follow-up screening. For years, researchers have...

September 8, 2010  |   A genetic mutation linked to one of the most aggressive forms of ovarian cancer may provide clues for new research into treatments and diagnostic tests for the deadly disease, as well as new insight into how other cancers develop. Two...

September 8, 2010  |   Two months before the midterm elections, there's a bit of deja-vu in the air: a new round of ads are running on health care reform. On Wednesday, former New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, held a news conference to...

September 7, 2010  |   After decades of decline, the smoking rate in the United States has plateaued over the past five years. About one in five American adults is a smoker, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control. That...

September 2, 2010  |   BP engineers on Thursday removed the cap that first stopped the blown-out Macondo oil well from spewing oil and gas back in mid-July. The removal brings BP one step closer to permanently killing the well, which has been shut...

September 2, 2010  |   The majority of Americans get their health insurance coverage through their employers. Now, a new survey finds that employees are paying more of the costs of their coverage than ever before. Workers' health care costs jumped significantly this year even...

September 1, 2010  |   About 2,000 employers will begin receiving payments this month from a new $5 billion program designed to encourage them to provide health insurance to early retirees who are too young for Medicare. The goal of the program, part of the...

August 31, 2010  |   Hurricane Earl Three Day Forecast (Image Credit: NOAA) Hurricane Earl continued to churn through the Atlantic Tuesday, heading toward the U.S. East Coast after dropping heavy rain and stirring up strong winds on the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, Antigua, and...

August 24, 2010  |   Oil-eating bacteria proliferated below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico this summer, helping to break down and clean up an underwater oil plume that stretched miles from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, according to a study released Tuesday by...

August 23, 2010  |   A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's guidelines expanding embryonic stem cell research. U.S. Chief District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that government funding of embryonic stem-cell research violates a law -- known as the Dickey Wicker Amendment--...

August 20, 2010  |   On Monday, residents and businesses affected by the Gulf Coast oil leak will begin submitting their damage claims to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, the new independent group that will take over the administration of BP's $20 billion compensation fund....

August 19, 2010  |   Months after the Deepwater Horizon oil leak began, a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide and 650-foot-high plume of microscopic oil compounds floated 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the well, according to a study published Thursday in...

August 19, 2010  |   The government and BP have pushed back to mid-September the completion of a relief well that will permanently kill the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Thursday. The delay will give engineers...

August 17, 2010  |   Most people think of hearing loss as a problem that begins some time later in life, but a new study published Tuesday finds that America's teenagers are getting harder of hearing as well. About one in five U.S. teens has...

August 9, 2010  |   Google and Verizon released a joint set of principles for Internet regulation Monday that would enshrine some aspects of net neutrality principles in law, but would largely exempt the wireless Internet from regulation. We asked advocates and opponents of government...

August 5, 2010  |   Updated 5:07 p.m. ET BP says it has finished pouring cement into the well. "Monitoring of the well is under way in order to confirm the effectiveness of the procedure," the company said in a statement. Updated 1:57 p.m. ET...

August 4, 2010  |   Almost three-quarters of the oil that was released into the Gulf of Mexico during the nearly three-month-long Deepwater Horizon oil leak has been vacuumed up, burned, naturally biodegraded or dispersed in the water, according to a government report released Wednesday....

August 3, 2010  |   Updated 5:23 p.m. ET | BP senior vice president Kent Wells said at a technical briefing Tuesday afternoon that the injectivity test conducted Tuesday ahead of the static kill was a "textbook" operation. "It went exactly as we would have...

August 2, 2010  |   With a contentious midterm election just around the corner, the Obama administration is continuing to tout what health reform will mean for Americans -- even turning the president into an online pitchman for the administration's new health coverage website, healthcare.gov....

August 2, 2010  |   A federal judge on Monday declined the Justice Department's request to throw out Virginia Attorney General Ken Cucinelli's lawsuit challenging the new federal health care reform law, a decision that gave opponents of the law their first significant legal victory....

July 29, 2010  |   As the Deepwater Horizon oil leak surpasses the 100-day mark, here is a timeline of some key events from the past few months with links to NewsHour coverage (click on images for a larger view): April 20 -- RIG EXPLODES...

July 29, 2010  |   Supporters, Opponents Gear Up for Long Fight Over Arizona Immigration Law One day after a federal judge blocked key provisions of Arizona's new immigration law from going into effect, both supporters and opponents of the law are gearing up for...

July 28, 2010  |   Pakistani rescuers search for bodies in the wreckage of a plane crash (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images) Pakistani Passenger Plane Crashes Near Islamabad, 152 Dead A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in the heavily forested hills outside Islamabad Wednesday morning, killing all...

July 26, 2010  |   BP could begin taking the final steps to try to kill its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as next week, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday. Allen gave the most specific timeline yet for...

July 23, 2010  |   The chief electrician aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig testified Friday that a fire and natural gas alarm system had been disabled for a year before the rig exploded and sank three months ago, setting off the largest oil leak...

July 23, 2010  |   On Thursday's NewsHour, Spencer Michels reported on the ongoing controversy over the use of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has sprayed nearly 2 million gallons of dispersant -- mostly a brand called Corexit -- into the Gulf...

July 22, 2010  |   Federal authorities have decided that it will be safe to leave a sealing cap on the Gulf oil well even if all ships have to leave the area during a possible tropical storm this weekend, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen...

July 21, 2010  |   Workers clean tarballs from a beach in Pass Christian, Miss. Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Officials could move forward by the weekend with an operation to begin permanently sealing the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, Coast Guard Adm. Thad...

July 19, 2010  |   BP will keep the cap closed for at least 24 more hours on its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news conference Monday afternoon. The cap has been closed since...

July 16, 2010  |   Federal authorities charged 94 health care providers with Medicare fraud Friday, and 36 of the accused have been arrested so far. The indictments span the country and include doctors, medical assistants, health care company owners and others in Detroit, Miami,...

July 15, 2010  |   The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $550 million settlement with Goldman Sachs in its case accusing the company of misleading investors in mortgage-backed securities, the agency said in a statement. "This record-setting settlement reflects the egregiousness of...

July 15, 2010  |   Capping stack departs June 29 from its construction site in Berwick, La. (Photo by BP) BP again plans to ramp up testing of its newest well cap system Thursday. The multi-stage test, which will take 48 hours, will determine...

July 14, 2010  |   Across the U.S., cash-strapped states are facing the possibility of layoffs and program cuts this year as an extension of federal Medicaid aid looks increasingly uncertain. Thirty states had written the extension of the additional Medicaid money -- first granted...

July 13, 2010  |   The Obama administration on Tuesday released a wide-ranging domestic AIDS policy plan that aims to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections by 25 percent by 2015 and calls for more targeted efforts to slow the spread of...

July 7, 2010  |   President Obama on Wednesday announced that he would sidestep congressional hearings and use a recess appointment to install Dr. Donald Berwick as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The job -- running the federal health insurance...

July 2, 2010  |   President Obama was guardedly optimistic in the face of disappointing jobs numbers Friday, saying in remarks that the U.S. economy was "headed in the right direction." But, he added, "We are not headed there fast enough for a lot...

July 1, 2010  |   People who have been denied health insurance due to a preexisting condition can begin applying for coverage Thursday in many states, under the first major program of the new health care reform law. The $5 billion program will fund high-risk...

June 30, 2010  |   The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that based on its initial toxicity tests, it is not recommending any changes right now to BP's use of the dispersant Corexit 9500 to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The...

June 29, 2010  |   The diabetes drug Avandia is back on the hot seat this week, with two new studies published Monday suggesting that it may increase the risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular problems. The news comes just a few weeks...

June 22, 2010  |   A federal judge has blocked the Obama administration's six-month moratorium on deepwater oil drilling following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The moratorium, which the president announced May 27, temporarily halted all new permits at depths greater than 500 feet,...

June 18, 2010  |   Updated Friday, June 25, 11:23 a.m. Congress on Thursday passed a temporary measure that will avert a 21 percent pay cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients -- but the fix will only last for six months. The Senate passed...

June 14, 2010  |   Workers clean oil off the beach in Grand Isle, La. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Updated 4:51 p.m. ET | President Barack Obama struck an optimistic tone over the ongoing oil disaster Monday afternoon, saying that "things are going to...

June 11, 2010  |   A day after a the federal government doubled its estimate of the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen outlined BP's plan to raise its capacity to capture and process more of...

June 10, 2010  |   Updated 7:05 p.m. ET The flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could have been as low as 20,000 barrels per day and as high as 40,000 or even 50,000 barrels per day before June 3, according to new...

June 10, 2010  |   BP will speed up its claims payments to the shrimpers, fisherman, business owners and others affected by the Gulf coast oil spill, government officials said Thursday. The company will change its practice of waiting to make a payment until...

June 9, 2010  |   Click image for larger view. BP's oil containment system captured about 15,000 barrels (630,000 gallons) of oil Tuesday, up slightly from the 14,800 barrels collected Monday, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said in a news briefing Wednesday. We've again...

June 8, 2010  |   Weatherbird II oil sampling stations (Image credit: NOAA) The federal government confirmed Tuesday that subsea clouds of dispersed oil have been found at least 40 miles from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of...

June 4, 2010  |   President Obama on Friday criticized BP for spending money on advertising and shareholder dividends even as oil continued to spill from the company's damaged Gulf Coast well. The president said that BP should not be "nickel and diming" Gulf...

June 4, 2010  |   BP announced Friday morning that it had successfully lowered a containment cap over the leaking oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico and was capturing some oil and gas. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen told reporters that the cap...

June 3, 2010  |   Mississippi has the highest rate of childhood obesity in the country -- 44 percent of kids ages 10 to 17 are obese or overweight. Recently, the NewsHour health unit traveled to the state to look at some causes of --...

June 2, 2010  |   Graphic depiction of progress in drilling two relief wells, May 30, 2010. Credit: BP Most of the public's attention has focused this week on BP's latest attempt to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico -- the...

May 31, 2010  |   Injured pro-Palestinian activist evacuated from flotilla. Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images At least 10 pro-Palestinian activists carrying aid supplies bound for the Gaza Strip were killed Monday when an Israeli naval ship intercepted their flotilla bound for the blockaded...

May 28, 2010  |   The amount of oil that has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month may be significantly higher than the preliminary estimate released Thursday by a federal panel, some scientists on the panel told the PBS...

May 28, 2010  |   Reports of fisherman who had been hired to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico falling ill have raised concerns about the health effects of the stew of oil and chemicals in the area. On Wednesday, seven workers were...

May 26, 2010  |   A House panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico says that during the hours that led up to the rig explosion, there were a series of missed and ignored warning signs that signaled significant problems...

May 25, 2010  |   More than a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank into the Gulf of Mexico, oil continues to spew into the ocean from a pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface. Meanwhile, containment and cleanup...

May 25, 2010  |   In July, some of the first money allocated by the new health care reform law will start flowing to states to fund temporary high-risk insurance pools. These pools are intended to extend insurance coverage to some of the most medically...

May 21, 2010  |   Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday...

May 20, 2010  |   Researchers have created the first cell powered by a man-made genome, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science. The genetic code of the cell was stitched together in a laboratory. "This is the first self-replicating species that...

May 19, 2010  |   A panel of the nation's leading scientists on Wednesday called for more research on climate change and more action to mitigate its effects, including setting a national "budget" to limit carbon emissions. In a three-part report commissioned by Congress, the...

May 14, 2010  |   Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak? Embed Code: A 30-second video released...

May 12, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s3f6dqea2',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> High school senior DeaShaun Taylor wants to join the army when he graduates this spring. But Taylor, who lives in Shelby, Miss., is among the one in four young people in the United States who don't...

May 11, 2010  |   A federal task force called for marketers of sugary and other unhealthy foods to voluntarily limit their advertising to children on Tuesday. The recommendation is one of 70 in a wide-ranging new report on reducing childhood obesity that was commissioned...

April 29, 2010  |   Major health insurers announced this week that they will end the controversial practice of dropping customers who become sick. The practice, called rescission, had come under fire by health care reform advocates during the year-long reform debate, and was outlawed...

April 28, 2010  |   On a day when much attention is centered on an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. took steps toward an entirely different alternative on the energy front. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Wednesday that the federal government...

April 23, 2010  |   The Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 20th birthday Saturday after launching on April 24, 1990. In the years since, it's taken about half a million pictures of the universe. The telescope had a troubled start, when astronomers realized weeks...

April 20, 2010  |   Americans consume unhealthy amounts of salt, and in order to help them cut back the government needs to begin regulating sodium levels in processed food, according to a new report by the National Academies of Science's Institute of Medicine. The...

April 19, 2010  |   On April 22, 1970, Americans celebrated the first Earth Day. The nationwide day of celebrations and demonstrations marked the beginning of a decade of environmental action, including such landmark legislation as the Clean Water Act and the Endangered Species Act....

April 15, 2010  |   President Obama traveled to Florida's "Space Coast" Thursday to sell his plan for a new direction for NASA. The president's proposal would end the return-to-the-moon Constellation program begun under President Bush, a program many critics say is behind schedule...

April 13, 2010  |   NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser and producer Terry Rubin recently traveled to Tampa, Fla., to sample residents' range of opinions on the new health care reform law. Their story is part of the NewsHour's "Spotlight City" week in Florida....

April 13, 2010  |   Regular NewsHour analyst Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal took your questions about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and about who President Obama might be considering to replace him. Read her answers below, and...

April 9, 2010  |   Now that Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 89, has announced his plan to retire at the end of this court term after more than 30 years on the bench, the usual round of questions are emerging rapid fire: What...

April 8, 2010  |   Two years ago, nine-year-old Matthew Berger accompanied his dad, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, to an archeological excavation site in South Africa. Running after his dog, he noticed an interesting-looking bone protruding from the ground. He thought it might be from...

April 7, 2010  |   Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has reached a tentative deal with the city's teachers' union for a new five-year contract. Rhee came to Washington in 2007 with an ambitious plan to reform the city's troubled schools, but has had...

April 2, 2010  |   In one of the first moves the Obama administration has taken under the new health care reform law, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday sent a letter to state governors and insurance commissioners intended to gauge interest...

April 1, 2010  |   Even as President Obama talks up the new health care reform law at rallies and speeches around the country, opponents of the measure are continuing to work to invalidate it. State legislators in 38 states have introduced legislation opposing the...

March 31, 2010  |   Environmental groups had a range of reactions to President Obama's announcement Wednesday that he would lift a longstanding moratorium on new offshore oil drilling along parts of the East Coast, Gulf of Mexico and northern Alaska. Most groups expressed concern,...

March 31, 2010  |   President Obama on Wednesday announced a plan to expand offshore oil and gas drilling to parts of the mid-Atlantic coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and northern Alaska. The new rules would end a longstanding moratorium on drilling along much...

March 30, 2010  |   Scientists in Geneva fired up the world's most powerful particle-smashing machine Tuesday, beginning a run that they hope will provide insight into fundamental questions about what makes up the universe. "This opens the door to a totally new era of...

March 30, 2010  |   President Obama on Tuesday signed into law the final piece of health care reform legislation -- a bill that also included a package of reforms to the student financial aid lending system. The president signed the legislation in a...

March 29, 2010  |   Obama administration officials have told news organizations that the president plans to nominate Harvard health policy and pediatrics professor Donald Berwick to guide Medicare and Medicaid through the major changes required under the new health care reform law. Berwick, a...

March 26, 2010  |   Over the past week, we've noticed many questions in the comments section of the Rundown about how the new health care reform law will affect people's lives and their health care. We posed some of those questions to Susan Dentzer,...

March 25, 2010  |   President Obama extolled the benefits of the newly-signed health care reform law in a speech Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, in the first of a series of events aimed at selling the new law to the American public. "I promised...

March 25, 2010  |   Diners will soon begin getting a lot more information about the calorie counts in their fast food and other restaurant meals -- whether they want it or not. A provision in the newly-passed health care reform bill will require...

March 24, 2010  |   President Obama signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon reaffirming that no federal money will be used to pay for abortions under the new health care reform law. The order follows through on a promise the president made Sunday to anti-abortion...

March 23, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable('news01s3d09qe42',482,304,{pap_usecache: true}); //--><!]]> President Obama on Tuesday signed health care reform into law, in front of a cheering crowd of lawmakers and Americans who will be affected by the bill. "Today, after almost a century of trying, today after...

March 21, 2010  |   The House of Representatives on Sunday passed a sweeping $940 billion health care bill in a historic vote that will dramatically change the U.S. health care system and expand health insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans over the next...

March 21, 2010  |   Update: 11:38 p.m. ET The House has now passed the reconciliation bill with amendments to the Senate health reform legislation, by a margin of 220-211. This bill will need to go back to the Senate for approval, which could...

March 18, 2010  |   Updated 4:05 p.m. President Obama's health care reform bill would cost $940 billion over ten years and reduce the federal deficit by $138 billion over the same time period while expanding health insurance coverage to 95 percent of the...

March 17, 2010  |   Halfway through what's been deemed a make-or-break week for health care reform, the media's vote-counting has begun in earnest, along with estimating the measure's chance of success. President Obama's overhaul push picked up new traction Wednesday with the announcement...

March 15, 2010  |   Updated 4:16 p.m. It's a line that's been heard many times over the past year, but Democrats' health care reform efforts truly could be entering their make-or-break stretch this week. President Obama headed to Ohio Monday afternoon to make the...

March 12, 2010  |   President Obama will delay his trip to Indonesia, Australia and Guam by three days in order to focus on health care reform, according to a tweet Thursday morning from White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. "The President will delay leaving...

March 10, 2010  |   Updated 7:09 p.m. President Obama continued to make his case for health care reform to the public Wednesday, at a speech in suburban St. Louis. The president emphasized a new plan to combat Medicare and Medicaid fraud, an idea that...

March 4, 2010  |   About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid traveling 20 times faster than a bullet crashed into Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, sending up projectile debris with such force that the debris rained back down as far away as New Zealand....

March 3, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom('news01s3c58qe29',482,304,""); //--><!]]> Updated 4:35 p.m. EST Washington Post reporter Ceci Conolly and political analyst Norman Ornstein will be on the NewsHour tonight, providing analysis and commentary on the president's speech and the path forward for health care reform. Read...

March 2, 2010  |   President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider incorporating four Republican ideas for health care reform into the Democrats' legislation. "I said throughout this process that I'd continue to draw on the best ideas from both parties," the president wrote...

March 1, 2010  |   During President Obama's health care summit last week, we got analysis and commentary throughout the day from a panel of experts: -- Thomas Mann, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. -- Ron Pollack, executive director of Families...

February 19, 2010  |   In a widely-read 2008 article in The Atlantic Monthly magazine, writer Nicholas Carr asked "Is Google Making us Stupid?" He argued that as people learn to surf the vast amounts of information available online, they are losing the ability to...

February 11, 2010  |   Pressure continues to build on California health insurer Anthem Blue Cross, as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has rejected the company's explanation for a proposed rate hike in the state. The controversy began last week when the Los...

February 10, 2010  |   For the first time in more than 15 years, psychiatrists plan to publish a completely new revised and updated edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- the nearly 1000-page tome that doctors rely on to classify,...

February 8, 2010  |   Dr. Atul Gawande's new book, "The Checklist Manifesto," grew out of research that the surgeon and author did for the World Health Organization on ways to reduce surgical deaths worldwide. Gawande's solution was to expand the use of a remarkably...

February 5, 2010  |   As health care reform legislation remains stalled in Congress and Democrats negotiate behind the scenes to try to find a way forward, supporters and opponents of the bills remain committed to their positions. And Thursday's news of rising health care...

February 4, 2010  |   Health care spending accounted for 17.3 percent of the U.S. economy in 2009, according to a report by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published Thursday in the journal Health Affairs. Read the report here. That's a 1.1...

February 3, 2010  |   The House of Representatives may vote next week on a bill to remove the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption. The move is the first attempt to jump-start the "two-track" health care reform effort that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined last...

January 29, 2010  |   In the largest philanthropic commitment ever made by a foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged to spend $10 billion over the next decade on vaccine development and delivery. Speaking Friday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,...

January 28, 2010  |   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters Thursday that Congress could move forward on health care reform "on many fronts," working to pass smaller parts of the legislation in separate bills while still negotiating a comprehensive reform package. "Some things we...

January 25, 2010  |   Three bombings rocked Baghdad Monday. The blasts, which occurred around 3:30 p.m. local time, targeted hotels popular with journalists and other foreigners. At least 30 people were killed and 71 injured in the bombings, according to the Associated Press....

January 21, 2010  |   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that the Senate's health care reform bill will not pass the House as it is written now. "I don't see the votes for it at this time," she told reporters after a meeting...

January 20, 2010  |   Updated 2:40 p.m. Democratic leaders debated Wednesday how to proceed on health care reform, as the Republican upset victory in Tuesday's Massachusetts Senate race has dealt President Barack Obama's signature legislative issue a serious blow. Republican state Sen. Scott Brown's...

January 19, 2010  |   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that negotiations between House and Senate Democratic leaders over health care reform are still "on course," even as nervous Democrats await the result of a special election in Massachusetts that could deny them a...

January 18, 2010  |   Over the past week, Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have been negotiating a compromise health care reform bill they hope can pass both chambers of Congress. But if Republican Scott Brown beats Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special...

January 18, 2010  |   At the beginning of a busy week -- with a crisis in Haiti and in the thick of health care reform negotiations -- President Obama will set aside much of his day Monday to remember civil rights leader Martin Luther...

January 15, 2010  |   Democratic lawmakers headed back to the White House Friday afternoon for another round of negotiations on health care reform. Senate Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said that he expected a deal on a bill in the next 72 hours, as...

January 14, 2010  |   Updated 5:55 p.m. Union leaders have reached an agreement with the White House on a tax on high-cost "Cadillac" health care plans, one of the main sticking points in negotiating a compromise health care reform bill. In order to pay...

January 13, 2010  |   Tuesday's magnitude 7.0 earthquake was the largest recorded in Haiti since 1770, but more than a dozen quakes of that size have shaken the country's Caribbean neighbors repeatedly over the past centuries. That's because Hispaniola, the Caribbean Island Haiti...

January 11, 2010  |   President Obama is meeting with a group of labor union leaders Monday afternoon to discuss the "Cadillac" health insurance tax -- the tax on high-cost insurance plans that's one of the major sticking points remaining in finding a compromise health...

January 7, 2010  |   President Obama met with House and Senate Democratic leaders this week, as the two chambers begin negotiations to iron out the differences between their versions of health care reform. NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner talks to the Rundown...

January 6, 2010  |   It's been a busy week for astronomy news, as more than 3,000 space scientists have gathered to present new research at the annual American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Earlier this week, the big headline was that the...

January 5, 2010  |   After a holiday break, congressional Democrats are beginning to return to Capitol Hill for a final push to pass health care reform legislation before President Obama's State of the Union address, likely in early February. Although Congress isn't scheduled...

December 25, 2009  |   Health care reform legislation has now passed both houses of Congress -- something proponents have been trying to achieve for decades. As Congress looks toward House-Senate negotiations on a final bill, here's a look back at some highlights of the...

December 24, 2009  |   Democrats' goal of passing health care reform early next year took a big step toward becoming reality Thursday, when the Senate passed its version of the legislation. But though the bill would reshape many aspects of the U.S. health care...

December 24, 2009  |   Updated 9:52 a.m. ET The Senate passed historic health care reform legislation in an early-morning vote Thursday, just making Democratic leaders' self-imposed Christmas deadline after a marathon 25 straight days in session. "This morning isn't the end of the process,...

December 22, 2009  |   It's an early Christmas present for Senators and their staff. Senate leaders announced Tuesday that they had scheduled a final vote on the Senate's health care reform bill for 8 a.m. on December 24. Democrats appear to have locked...

December 19, 2009  |   Updated 6:55 p.m. ET: Senate Democrats announced Saturday morning that they had struck a deal with the last Democratic holdout on health care reform, paving the way for a vote on the bill before Christmas. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., agreed...

December 18, 2009  |   Nearly one in every 110 8-year-olds in the U.S. has been diagnosed with a form of autism, according to a federal study released Friday. The study, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also found that the disorder occurs...

December 18, 2009  |   As the Senate manuevering over health care reform reaches a fever pitch, the NewsHour has been taking a look beyond the political debate at how the bills making their way through Congress could affect people across the insurance spectrum. On...

December 17, 2009  |   Senate Democrats may be in danger of missing their self-imposed Christmas deadline to pass health reform legislation, according to reports Thursday. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada is still working to find compromise language on abortion acceptable to Sen. Ben...

December 16, 2009  |   Updated 3:55 PM ET: The Senate hit a three-hour roadblock Wednesday afternoon in its negotiations over a health care reform bill, when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., forced a reading of a 767-page amendment to the bill on the Senate floor....

December 15, 2009  |   With all eyes on the health reform debate, President Obama said Tuesday afternoon that Congress is "on the precipice" of passing an overhaul bill. He spoke to reporters after a White House meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus. "There...

December 15, 2009  |   The millions of CT scans performed each year in the U.S. may be subjecting some patients to unnecessary cancer risk, and could lead to 29,000 extra cancer cases each year, according to two studies published Tuesday in the Archives of...

December 14, 2009  |   After a weekend spent passing a $1.1 trillion spending bill, the Senate will once again take up the complex issue of health care reform Monday afternoon. Last week, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., looked headed toward the 60 votes he...

December 9, 2009  |   Lawmakers and stakeholders reacted Wednesday to Democratic senators' tentative deal to break an impasse on the public option in the health reform bill. Ten Democratic senators, five moderates and five liberals, announced the deal Tuesday night. It would replace the...