May 15, 2013  |   Photo courtesy: Flickr user Josiah Mackenzie There's new evidence out today that being fit reduces your risk for getting cancer. The study, released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting, looked at the link between fitness in...

March 4, 2013  |   Endless searching. Repeated rejection. Trips to the emergency room when all else fails. The horror stories are familiar to seniors who can't find a new primary care doctor willing to accept their Medicare coverage. But just...

March 3, 2013  |   The first baby has been cured of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. The case was publicly unveiled at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The infant, who is now two and a half years old, was...

February 15, 2013  |   Photo courtesy of Flickr user Emery Co Photo. Could taking a vitamin supplement before and during pregnancy help reduce the chances of your child being diagnosed with autism later? According to a new Norwegian study, yes. Women who took...

May 22, 2012  |   Wyeth's Prempro, a menopause treatment, is displayed on the shelf at a pharmacy in Cambridge, Mass., in 2006. A full 72 percent of women experiencing menopausal symptoms have not received treatment for them, according to a new survey by...

March 22, 2012  |   It's minutes before the curtain is set to rise for this year's production of the Black History Month play at Henderson Inclusion Elementary School on a late February morning. Students are excitedly tending to last-minute costume fixes and teachers...

March 22, 2012  |   Attorneys general Ken Cuccinelli of Virginia and Martha Coakley of Massachusetts Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether the 2010 health reform law is constitutional. At the forefront will be the question of whether Congress has...

March 21, 2012  |   Daniel Paris on the campus of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. Here, he points to the address where he sent his application materials. After dropping out of high school, Daniel Paris was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder...

March 21, 2012  |   Editor's Note: This profile is part of a PBS NewsHour series on the role of learning disabilities in America's dropout crisis. Stay tuned for more in the coming days, both on-air and online. Daniel Paris was...

February 10, 2012  |   Under mounting pressure, the Obama administration today proposed an "accommodation" to a mandate that religious groups cover birth control free-of-charge. President Obama made the announcement this afternoon in the White House Press room. ...

January 24, 2012  |   After a dreary winter day, you come home, slip out of your cozy waterproof coat and boots, and get the kids started on their homework. For a snack, you pop some popcorn in the microwave and order a pizza...

December 1, 2011  |   Dr. Edward Atwater, 85, poses with some of the more than 6,000 posters in his collection. Photo courtesy of the University of Rochester. The colorful posters have graced walls and subways in London, New York, and Paris. But they...

November 25, 2011  |   Different costs for the same procedure in 2009. Figures from the OECD. Staying healthy in the United States is expensive. In fact, in 2009, the average annual cost of health care was $7,960 per person -- two and a...

November 16, 2011  |   A "quick trip" to the dentist usually means a one-hour flight across southern Alaska for Eva Malvich. But that pales in comparison to the other sacrifices she's made to get some relief from the pounding pain...

November 8, 2011  |   We met dental health aide therapist student Jana Schuerch at the Yuut Elitnaurviat Dental Training Clinic in Bethel, Alaska. Schuerch, 28, lights up when she tells us about her fiancé, Charlie, and their three young children living in Nome --...

October 28, 2011  |   "It's not the end of the world," David Lefner told us, "but you can see it from here." That was our greeting as we stepped off our flight in Bethel, Alaska. It was our last stop before boarding the tiny...

August 29, 2011  |   Photo by Sarah Clune/NewsHour. The number of medications on the Food and Drug Administration's shortage list keeps growing. And while calcium chloride and potassium phosphate aren't drug names the average American would recognize, they're critical to patients visiting the...

May 25, 2011  |   If you're a young adult, chances are high blood pressure isn't high on your list of things to worry about. But a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests maybe it should...

May 19, 2011  |   Here's a roundup of what's been happening in health reform this week: Aggressive Defense of Health Care Law The federal government sharpened its defense of the health care law this week in a reply brief filed in the 11th Circuit...

May 19, 2011  |   Can you tell the difference between the Massachusetts health reform law and the Affordable Care Act? A quiz from Politifact.com tests your knowledge of two major health reform policies: the 2006 plan passed by the state legislature and signed into...

May 19, 2011  |   The Department of Health and Human Services finalized regulations Thursday that will require insurance companies to disclose and justify rate increases above 10 percent. Public outcry has been growing over premium hikes, most visibly in California, where Blue Shield of...

May 17, 2011  |   As the Obama administration pushes ahead with plans to increase the use of electronic medical records, two internal reports released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed "significant concerns" about security gaps in the system. The...

May 10, 2011  |   Updated 5:30 p.m. ET | The federal appeals panel heard more than two hours of arguments Tuesday in the two Virginia lawsuits challenging the new health care reform law. The first case up was Liberty University's, argued by attorney Mathew...

May 6, 2011  |   You may have seen our story this week on a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art called "Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection." It takes visitors on a colorful tour of medical history,...

May 6, 2011  |   Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Dave Camp speaks to reporters on Thursday at an event hosted by Health Affairs Here's a roundup of what's been happening in health reform this week: MEDICARE OVERHAUL: OUT...

May 5, 2011  |   If you're a patient in the emergency room, or fighting a long battle with cancer, there's a chance your doctors may not have access to the best drugs to treat you because of rising prescription drug shortages. In his...

May 4, 2011  |   House Republicans advanced their latest bill to dismantle the new health care law, with a Tuesday night vote to defund state health insurance exchanges. And while it's unlikely to pass the Senate any time soon, it's part of a larger...

April 29, 2011  |   No Easy Homecoming Republicans have spent much of their two-week congressional recess fending off questions from voters about their new budget proposal, which includes a revamping of the Medicare system. Wisconsin Republican Representative Paul Ryan is the architect of...

February 24, 2011  |   More than one in five Americans incorrectly believe that the health care reform law has been repealed, and another 26 percent aren't sure, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll released Thursday. The NewsHour talked to Kaiser...

January 31, 2011  |   Updated 5:45 p.m. ET A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law - in its entirety - unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and attorneys...

January 28, 2011  |   President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years." In a speech to Families USA, a consumer advocacy group...

January 28, 2011  |   After our conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," Dr. Mukherjee offered to answer some questions submitted by NewsHour viewers. _pap_embeddable; We received many questions on a...

January 21, 2011  |   The Road Ahead for Health Reform House Republicans fulfilled their campaign promise to challenge last year's landmark health reform legislation, voting 245-189 to approve a repeal measure. But now Republicans are gearing up for a longer campaign. They plan to...

January 18, 2011  |   With Congress returning to scheduled business this week, the House of Representatives, led by Speaker John Boehner, is set to take up a proposed repeal of the health care reform law. The debate, originally scheduled for last week, was postponed...

September 9, 2010  |   NEW ORLEANS | AP photographer Gerald Herbert has been documenting the BP oil disaster in the Gulf -- from the land, sea and air -- since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20. In the three months since we...