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	2010 DECEMBER Dec. 31, 2010 Health Reform Watch: The Return of the End-of-Life Care Debate 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.

	Dec. 30, 2010 Top Five Global Health Headlines Flu cases spike in the U.K., Cholera threatens Haiti rice harvest, foot-and-mouth disease spreads in South Korea, first organ donor dies.

	Dec. 29, 2010 In India's Crowded Capital, Crisis Looms Over Limited Water In the first report of a year-long partnership with National Geographic magazine examining population issues, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from New Delhi, where rapid and unplanned population growth is exacerbating a shortage of water.

	Dec. 29, 2010 Ray Suarez Responds to Critics of Cuba Series Cuba -- its past, present and future -- sits comfortably in a category, along with abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now global climate change, of difficult stories to tell.

	Dec. 29, 2010 India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries NEW DELHI, India \| If there are water wars in the future, conservationist Jyothi Sharma thinks they'll happen just outside her apartment in an upper-middle class enclave in Delhi's Vasant Kunj neighborhood.

	Dec. 28, 2010 California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law.

	Dec. 28, 2010 In California, Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform While some parts of the nation are figuring out how to block national health care reform or repeal the law, California has plunged headfirst into making it work.

	Dec. 27, 2010 States Have Much Discretion to Speed, Slow Health Reform's Effects While many aspects of the federal health reform law don't take full effect until 2014, states can choose whether to speed up or slow down some of the sweeping changes to the U.S. health care system. Margaret Warner gets some national perspective on health reform implementation and what's to come from NPR's Julie Rovner.

	Dec. 27, 2010 In Wisconsin, Political Battle Brewing Over Shaping Health Reform Law Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from Wisconsin, where a Republican sweep in the midterm elections is adding a layer of complexity to the implementation of the federal health care reform law. New resistance is cropping up in the Badger State over whether to expand Medicaid coverage to more people.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Questions Over Health Care Reform as Wisconsin Moves From Blue to Red 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 state Senate and state Assembly.

	Dec. 27, 2010 Shortage of Cholera Vaccine an Obstacle in Haiti Response Health experts are calling for the creation of a cholera vaccine stockpile so the vaccine can be deployed in future cholera outbreaks, like the one still spreading in Haiti.

	Dec. 24, 2010 Health Reform Watch: Insurer Rate Review; Debate Over 'Lie of the Year' 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 week.

	Dec. 23, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican Clarifies on Condoms, Cholera Vaccine The Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the church does not condone the use of condoms to prevent pregnancy, in an effort to clarify statements made by Pope Benedict XVI.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Debt-Free Doctors Part of Cuba's Foreign Policy Strategy Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at a "medical diplomacy" program that offers medical school education to low-income students from around the world.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Food Safety Bill Focuses on Prevention, Creates Recall Power A new food safety bill was among the last-minute actions in Congress this week. Jeffrey Brown gets details on what's in the bill and how it could impact farmers, food processors and regulators.

	Dec. 22, 2010 For 9/11 Responders, Some Peace of Mind as Congress Clears Aid Bill A last-minute compromise led to Senate passage of a bill that will provide up to $4.2 billion for monitoring and treating illnesses for 9/11 responders who worked at Ground Zero. Jeffrey Brown speaks with Glen Klein, a former New York City police officer who was among the first to respond to the attacks.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Cuba Offers Poor Medical Students a Free Ride On Wednesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez wraps up his series on Cuba with a look at its medical diplomacy efforts around the world.

	Dec. 22, 2010 Senate to Consider 9/11 First Responders Health Bill The Senate appears headed toward action Wednesday on a long-delayed bill to provide health care and compensation for 9/11 first responders who became sick after working in the toxic dust and debris at the World Trade Center site.

	Dec. 21, 2010 Cuba's Emphasis on Preventive Medicine Ray Suarez continues his series from Havana with a report on the Cuban health care system's emphasis on preventive medicine.

	Dec. 21, 2010 New Rules Will Increase Scrutiny of Health Insurance Premium Hikes 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.

	Dec. 21, 2010 In Photos: Scenes from Cuba The second installment in a three-part Global Health series on Cuba airs Tuesday on the NewsHour. View photos from the team's trip through Havana below and tune in to learn more about Cuba's universal health care system and the debate over the country's successful health outcomes.

	Dec. 20, 2010 Health Reform Law's Legal, Political Obstacles Continue to Mount Jeffrey Brown discusses the political and legal challenges of mandating Americans to pay for health coverage with White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle and Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who filed a lawsuit against the federal mandate, which was later ruled unconstitutional by a judge there.

	Dec. 20, 2010 Despite Challenges, States Move to Implement Health Care Reform In state courthouses and on Capitol Hill, the battle over health care reform is still being fought.

	Dec. 17, 2010 Health Reform Headlines: 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 bill need to include the "individual mandate" that requires all Americans to buy insurance?

	Dec. 17, 2010 Haiti, a Year After the Quake It's been nearly a year since a devastating earthquake rocked Haiti. The aftermath left the capital of Port-au-Prince shattered, thousands living in tent camps and aid organizations scrambling to assist Haitians already burdened with poverty, now burdened with a city in ruins.

	Dec. 17, 2010 Preview: The NewsHour in Cuba The NewsHour is airing a three part series on Cuba next week, beginning on December 20.

	Dec. 16, 2010 FDA: Avastin Does Not Work for Breast Cancer Treatment 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.

	Dec. 16, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Stem Cell Treatment for HIV, Haiti Cholera A patient with HIV and leukemia has been declared cured of both diseases through stem cell treatment, a team of Berlin doctors wrote this week in a peer-reviewed study in the journal Blood.

	Dec. 16, 2010 In Florida, Health Care Reform Once Again Before A Judge Health care reform is once again being considered in court Thursday --just three days after a federal judge in Virginia ruled a key provision in the new law unconstitutional, the action moves to Pensacola, Fla.

	Dec. 15, 2010 1 in 6 Americans Gets Food Poisoning Every Year, CDC Finds 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.

	Dec. 14, 2010 Report: Teen Drug Use Up, Binge Drinking Down A new report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse shows teenage drug use is up, especially among eighth-graders. Gwen Ifill speaks with U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske about the report's findings.

	Dec. 14, 2010 Survey: Marijuana Use Outstrips Tobacco Use Among Teens More high school seniors have used marijuana in the past month than have smoked a cigarette, according to a federal study released Tuesday.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Health Reform Law: Will It Survive New Judicial Scrutiny? In the latest in a spate of challenges to the sweeping health care reform law, a Virginia judge said certain provisions, including an individual insurance coverage requirement, were unconstitutional. Betty Ann Bowser reports then Gwen Ifill speaks with Neera Tanden of the Center For American Progress and attorney David Rivkin.

	Dec. 13, 2010 Virginia Judge Set to Rule on Health Reform Challenge For health care reform watchers, all eyes are on Virginia today. Judge Henry Hudson will issue a ruling midday in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care reform law.

	Dec. 13, 2010 How Will the Nutrition Bill Change School Lunches? President Obama has signed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 into law, a major victory in First Lady Michelle Obama's crusade against child obesity and hunger.

	Dec. 12, 2010 Cuba Faces Economic Woes; Lauds Achievements in Health, Education Ray Suarez is back from Havana, Cuba, where he reported on the health system, medical diplomacy and the move towards economic reforms.

	Dec. 10, 2010 Health Reform Watch: Congress Passes 'Doc Fix,' Revisiting McAllen Congress gave Medicare doctors a one-year reprieve from a looming pay cut this week.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Surgeon General: Smoking Even Once Poses Health Risks Surgeon General Regina Benjamin speaks with Judy Woodruff about a new study on how even just one puff of one cigarette causes immediate harm to a person's lungs and lead to bigger health problems down the road.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Dance Helps Parkinson's Patients Harness Therapeutic Power of Movement Special correspondent Dave Iverson looks a unique program that uses dance as therapy for people with Parkinson's disease.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Congress Patches Payment Gap for Medicare Doctors Congress once again headed off a pay cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients by stopping a 25 percent decrease in the amount the federal government pays them to take care of seniors.

	Dec. 9, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: One Cigarette Causes Harm, Haiti Cholera Photo by Valentin OttoneJust One Cigarette Can Harm HealthThe chemicals from even one puff of a cigarette can cause immediate damage to the lungs and DNA, according to a new report issued by U.

	Dec. 7, 2010 In Cuba, Biotech Eyed for Potential Economic Boost Ray Suarez, who is reporting for the NewsHour's Global Health Unit in Cuba, speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the country's changing economy, its booming medical research industry and health care system. Suarez returns to Havana for the first time since the Cold War to see how it has changed.

	Dec. 6, 2010 Texas Considers Dropping Medicaid as States Face Budget Crisis For 45 years, the states and federal government's Medicaid program has provided health care to low income children, pregnant women, seniors and disabled adults. But the traditional health care safety net for some of America's most fragile citizens is in trouble like never before.

	Dec. 6, 2010 New Meningitis Vaccine Could be Model for Future Drugs The rollout of a new meningitis vaccine developed specifically with poor countries in mind began Monday in western Africa.

	Dec. 6, 2010 Employers Paying More, Workers Getting Less for Health Insurance 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.

	Dec. 3, 2010 Health Reform Watch: Health Care Helps Bring Down Deficit Plan Citing Health Care, Republicans Say No to Deficit PlanPresident Obama's bipartisan Deficit Commission failed to get the 14 votes necessary to send its deficit reduction plan to a full vote in Congress.

	Dec. 3, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: Getting Reacquainted with Havana All the stereotypes are still in place: Cubans love cigars, rum, music, and baseball. 1950s Chevys, Buicks, Plymouths, and 1970s Ladas and Zils from the Soviet Union still drive on the streets of Havana. Ray Suarez reports from Cuba.

	Dec. 2, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: World AIDS Day, Doctors Needed in Haiti The White House decorated for World AIDS Day.

	Dec. 1, 2010 World AIDS Day: Highlights from 2010 It has been a busy year in HIV/AIDS research and policy, producing a mix of good and bad news.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Scary Foods: Outbreaks That Helped Spur the Food Safety Bill 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 the Food and Drug Administration to oversee food production.

	Dec. 1, 2010 Former Surgeon General Koop Calls AIDS 'Forgotten Epidemic' Former Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop spoke with Ray Suarez for World AIDS Day.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2010 Health Reform Watch: No-Go for 1099 Repeal, Medicare Docs Sidestep Pay Cut 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.

	Nov. 30, 2010 News Wrap: New WikiLeaks Document Reveals U.S. Critique of Karzai In other news Tuesday, WikiLeaks released a memo in which a U.S. diplomat criticizes Afghan President Hamid Karzai for allegedly freeing dangerous detainees because of ties to powerful people.

	Nov. 30, 2010 New Guidelines Boost Vitamin D Recommendation for Bone Health A report released Tuesday raised the recommended amount of vitamin D that most U.S. adults should consume from 200 international units to 600 international units per day. The report, which also examined calcium intake, said that that level of vitamin D, together with sufficient calcium, is necessary to keep bones healthy.

	Nov. 26, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: HIV Breakthrough, Pope's Condom Remarks New Hope for Preventing HIV InfectionsA study published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week found that regular doses of an antiretroviral combination called Truvada helped protect healthy gay men from contracting HIV.

	Nov. 25, 2010 Making AIDS Drugs Affordable Here and Abroad Spencer Michels profiles the company that makes the HIV medicine, and the strides to make it affordable to those in the U.S. and poorer countries.

	Nov. 25, 2010 New Antiretroviral Could Reduce Risk of HIV Infection Ray Suarez looks at the latest advances in combating AIDS. New research suggests taking an antiretroviral while healthy could greatly reduce the risk of contracting HIV.

	Nov. 25, 2010 Art Program Aims to Help Children Affected by AIDS One in every eight adults in Mozambique is infected with HIV, and many children in the country have lost a parent, or both parents, to the disease.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Mozambique Looks to Battle Illnesses to Boost Kids' IQs, Economy In the final report of his series on health issues in Mozambique, Ray Suarez reports on the country's high levels of childhood mortality and the connections between kids' illnesses and intelligence levels.

	Nov. 24, 2010 Preview: Could Childhood Disease Lower Intelligence? A new study from the University of New Mexico suggests that children plagued with infectious disease at a young age may face a long-term consequence -- lower intelligence.

	Nov. 23, 2010 Frontline Examines Difficulty, Importance of End-of-Life Decisions The latest Frontline -- airing Tuesday on many PBS stations -- confronts the complicated end-of-life decisions that patients, families and doctors must face. This excerpt shows the tough decision-making surrounding one patient's grim prognosis at the Mount Sinai Medical Center intensive care unit in New York City.

	Nov. 23, 2010 High Costs of HIV Medication Cause 'Terrible Dilemma' in Mozambique In Mozambique, where 1 in 8 adults is living with HIV, the number of patients on antiretroviral drugs has expanded thanks to international AIDS funding, but a debate is emerging over whether foreign donors can continue to fund an ever-expanding pool of patients. Ray Suarez continues his series from the southern African nation.

	Nov. 23, 2010 News Wrap: Taliban Impostor Exposed in Afghan Peace Talks In other news Tuesday, peace talks in Afghanistan were dealt a major setback after reports surfaced that a man representing the Taliban was an impostor.

	Nov. 23, 2010 Preventing Mother to Child HIV Transmission in Mozambique More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year.

	Nov. 23, 2010 Preview: Sustaining Mozambique's HIV/AIDS Fight One out of every eight adults living in Mozambique is HIV positive, and most of them are on HIV medications called antiretrovirals.

	Nov. 22, 2010 In Mozambique, Signs of Growth Seen Amid Rampant Poverty New international investment and steady growth have made Mozambique a promising African economy, but little of that change has trickled down to the citizens, many of whom still struggle to afford staple foods.In the first of three reports, Ray Suarez explores how the growing economy has left many of the poorest people behind.

	Nov. 22, 2010 Under New Rules, Insurers Will Spend More on Patient Care 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.

	Nov. 22, 2010 Preview: Mozambique's Growth Not Benefitting Its Poorest Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, grappling with high rates of poverty, HIV and malnutrition.

	Nov. 19, 2010 Darvocet, Darvon Painkillers Pulled From Market at FDA's Request 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.

	Nov. 18, 2010 In California, Facing Down a Family Physician Shortage In the latest in a series on health reform, Betty Ann Bowser reports from California on what's being done to inspire medical students to address a shortage of primary care doctors.

	Nov. 18, 2010 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Cholera Crossing Borders Cases of cholera have been confirmed in two people in the Dominican Republic and in Miami. Both were recently in Haiti, where more than 1,100 people have now died from the waterborne illness, heightening fears of further international spread.

	Nov. 18, 2010 What's in the Senate Food Safety Bill? 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.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Frustration Boils Over in Haiti as Riots Disrupt Efforts to Contain Cholera The number of cholera deaths in Haiti climbed to 1,100 as riots broke out in two northern cities. Gwen Ifill speaks with Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles in Port-au-Prince, who says that the unrest is hampering efforts to contain the spread of the epidemic.

	Nov. 17, 2010 On Wednesday's NewsHour: Cholera in Haiti, Nuclear Treaty, Deficit Ideas On the NewsHour this Wednesday: An update on Haiti's cholera outbreak, a look at a stalled nuclear arms treaty, a report on an unusual take on the recession in Maine, two new views on cutting the deficit and a conversation with war photographer Tim Hetherington.

	Nov. 17, 2010 Medicare Chief Defends Health Reform in Senate Grilling 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.

	Nov. 17, 2010 EU in Talks Over Ireland's Finances; Germany Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack European leaders continued talks on how to tackle Ireland's troubled finances, paving the way for a possible bailout that could be worth as much as €100 billion.

	Nov. 16, 2010 New Medicare Center Aims to Test Ideas to Save Money, Improve Care 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 care.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts Betty Ann Bowser begins a new series on health reform's effects with a report from Massachusetts, where a major health care reform law passed four years ago and served as a model for the federal law.

	Nov. 15, 2010 Open Enrollment: What to Watch this Year 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.

	Nov. 15, 2010 For Massachusetts Doctors, Two Sides to Reform Massachusetts passed a comprehensive health care reform law in 2006 that proved to be a model for the national law passed this year. The NewsHour talks to two primary care doctors about how the law has affected their patients and practices.

	Nov. 12, 2010 News Wrap: Wall Street Ends Week Down on China Interest Rate Concerns In other news Friday, Wall Street fell for the week on worries that China may raise interest rates to curb inflation, which could slow Chinese growth and hurt the global economic recovery.

	Nov. 11, 2010 Global Health Watch: Cholera in Haiti, TB Numbers Leveling Off We are starting a new feature on the Rundown from our global health unit. Once a week, we'll be publishing a roundup of top health stories around the world you should know about.

	Nov. 11, 2010 In Massachusetts, A Health Care Reform Preview The NewsHour traveled to Massachusetts recently to see how a sweeping health care reform law passed in 2006 has affected health care access and costs.

	Nov. 10, 2010 Haiti Struggles to Rebuild From Earthquake, But Progress Is Slow Jon Snow of Independent Television News revisits some places he went after Haiti's deadly earthquake earlier this year to see how the recovery effort is going.

	Nov. 10, 2010 A Look at Cigarette Warnings Around the World The Food and Drug Administration unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages and ads on Wednesday.

	Nov. 9, 2010 In Pakistan, Volunteer Doctors Try to Fill Health Care Void After Floods Special correspondent Saima Mohsin traveled with a team from the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders as it worked to treat Pakistan's flood victims, many of whom have had little access to health care months after the waters first rose.

	Nov. 9, 2010 Cholera Reaches Port-au-Prince, More Cases Expected Cholera has officially spread to Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are living in crowded tent camps and slums, prime conditions for spreading the highly contagious disease.

	Nov. 9, 2010 Poll: In Election, Economic Concerns Trumped Views on Health Care Reform 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.

	Nov. 5, 2010 Research Shows CT Scans Can Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths A National Cancer Institute trial found that screening by 3-dimensional X-ray tests known as "spiral CT scans" reduced lung cancer deaths by 20 percent over five years. But the test has its drawbacks, including increased exposure to radiation and false positives. Ray Suarez talks to NCI's Harold Varmus about the research.

	Nov. 4, 2010 Haiti's Cholera Outbreak Could Worsen After Tropical Storm Ray Suarez talks to a NPR's Jason Beaubien in Port-au-Prince about concerns that rainwater could further the spread of cholera in Haiti.

	Nov. 4, 2010 Evacuations in Haiti as Tropical Storm Approaches Tropical Storm Tomas is heading toward Haiti, where more than a million people are still homeless after a deadly earthquake earlier this year. Kyle Morris of Independent Television News has more.

	Nov. 4, 2010 What Does a Republican House Mean for Health Care Reform? Many Republicans campaigned on a platform that included a plan to "repeal and replace" the health reform law. What happens now that they've regained control of the House? Jeffrey Brown gets three views on what's ahead in Washington.

	Nov. 4, 2010 News Wrap: Qantas Plane Shoots Flames During Flight, Lands Safely In other news Thursday, Australian airline Qantas grounded its fleet of Airbus A-380s after one of them blew an engine mid-flight. The plane, which was carrying 459 passengers, made an emergency landing safely in Singapore.

	Nov. 4, 2010 Storm Threatens to Worsen Haiti Cholera Outbreak A strengthening tropical storm is predicted to hit Haiti on Friday, bringing the threat of high winds and flooding, which could accelerate the spread of cholera.

	Nov. 4, 2010 What Does a GOP-Controlled House Mean for Health Care Reform? Many of the Republicans campaigned on a promise to "repeal and replace" the health care reform law, but a full-scale reversal would be nearly impossible for them to achieve.

	Nov. 3, 2010 In Myanmar, Aid Groups Assess Damage from Cyclone Giri Relief organizations responding to Cyclone Giri, which pounded western Myanmar on Friday, are finding homes and schools swept away and a need for emergency food and water in the saltwater soaked islands.

	Nov. 1, 2010 Brazil Elects First Female President Dilma Rousseff won Brazil's presidential runoff on Sunday, making her the first female president of South America's largest and most populous country. She campaigned on -- and now faces the challenges of -- improving Brazil's infrastructure, education and health care.

	Nov. 1, 2010 A Side Note on Herbal Supplements Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."



	OCTOBER Oct. 27, 2010 Pakistani Mothers, Babies Face Health Risks Special correspondent Saima Mohsin reports from Pakistan, where pregnant women and infants who survived the floods often lack sufficient nutrition and access to health care.

	Oct. 27, 2010 Tsunami, Volcano Cause Devastation in Indonesia In Indonesia, an earthquake triggered a massive tsunami on the island of Sumatra, followed by a volcanic eruption on Mount Merapi. Rescuers are struggling to reach those affected as the death toll continues to climb.

	Oct. 27, 2010 Ad Buys Show Mainly Republicans, Not Democrats, are Running on Reform 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.

	Oct. 27, 2010 Cholera Outbreak Highlights Haiti's Ongoing Sanitation Problems Deaths from Haiti's cholera outbreak are slowing, but health experts warn that the threat of further spread, fueled by unsanitary conditions, is still very real.

	Oct. 26, 2010 In Bosnia, Breast Cancer Fight Gives Women a Unifying Voice In a country still very much identified with its civil war that ended 15 years ago, the leading cause of death among Bosnian women is breast cancer. Special correspondent Kira Kay reports on efforts to stop the deadly disease.

	Oct. 26, 2010 Bosnian Divide Extends to Cancer Care Kira Kay reports from Bosnia on the surprisingly high levels of breast cancer in the country and the national elections -- and how the two stories intertwine.

	Oct. 25, 2010 Preview: Reporting on HIV in Mozambique Ray Suarez gives a preview of his series of Global Health Unit reports from one of the poorest countries in the world, Mozambique, where the number of cases of HIV and AIDS has strained medical and financial resources.

	Oct. 25, 2010 News Wrap: Fed Addresses Foreclosure Frenzy, Bloody Weekend in Mexico Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Central Bank is getting involved in the recent foreclosure mess caused by faulty paperwork. In Mexico, 10 people were killed at a rehab center in Tijuana in another bloody episode of drug violence.

	Oct. 25, 2010 'Origins' Explores the Science of Pregnancy, Fetal Development 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.

	Oct. 25, 2010 Monday: Haiti's Cholera Death Toll Hits 250; More Massacres in Mexico The death toll in Haiti's cholera epidemic topped 250 over the weekend as thousands more remained hospitalized and officials braced for the disease to spread into densely populated slums in urban areas.

	Oct. 22, 2010 CDC: 1 in 3 Americans Could Have Diabetes by 2050 As many as 1 in 3 American adults could have diabetes by the year 2050, according to a new analysis released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control.

	Oct. 22, 2010 Authorities Fear Cholera Outbreak Could Spread in Haiti Health officials fear a cholera outbreak in rural Haiti that has killed at least 142 people and sickened more than 1,500 will spread to other parts of Haiti, including the earthquake-ravaged capital Port-au-Prince.

	Oct. 22, 2010 Mozambique's Health Care Struggles Put Need for Basics Back in Focus MAPUTO \| A few weeks ago at the U.N., I interviewed the Health Minister of Mozambique, Paolo Ivo Garrido. By the time I got to Maputo in October, Garrido had been dismissed. In the near term, it doesn't matter that much. The country's problems are daunting, no matter who's running the health ministry.

	Oct. 22, 2010 WikiLeaks Close to Releasing War Documents; Cholera Outbreak in Haiti The WikiLeaks website is close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is "the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history." In Haiti, at least 142 people have died in a cholera outbreak.

	Oct. 21, 2010 What's Really in Herbal Supplements? In one of America's fastest-growing but least-regulated industries, consumers face a dizzying array of herbal treatment options. But studies about the effectiveness of these products are inconclusive, and the ingredients listed in labels are sometimes misleading. Paul Solman reports.

	Oct. 21, 2010 Regulators Approve Strict New Rules for Insurance Company Spending State health insurance officials approved rules that will guide how much money insurers must spend on patient care under the new health care reform law.

	Oct. 21, 2010 Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic As the government highlights the growing health risks of childhood obesity, Betty Ann Bowser reports from the Mississippi Delta on how so-called "food deserts" keep some communities from access to healthy food.

	Oct. 20, 2010 'Dollars for Docs' Tracks Pharmaceutical Companies' Spending 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.

	Oct. 20, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: A Clinic's Strains in Mozambique Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the U.S. It's among the poorest countries in the world. At a large and busy clinic, the pharmacist showed Ray Suarez empty pallets and dwindling stocks of life-saving anti-retroviral drugs for hundreds of that day's patients.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Study: Post-Menopausal Hormone Therapy Increases Cancer Risk A new study found that post-menopausal women who use hormone-replacement therapy are at a greater risk of getting aggressive cancers than those who don't. Gwen Ifill gets perspectives on the findings from the lead author of the study, Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, and Dr. Julie Gralow of The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Study: Hormone Therapy Leads to More Advanced Breast Cancer A study published Tuesday finds that breast cancer in post-menopausal women who took long-term hormone replacement therapies were, on average, more advanced and possibly more deadly than the cancers developed by women who did not take hormone therapy.

	Oct. 19, 2010 Photo from the Field: Waiting for HIV Care in Mozambique Women wait with their babies in the HIV ward of the Primeiro de Maio Centro de Saude in Maputo, Mozambique. Parents of HIV positive children waited for hours at the clinic to pick up more pediatric antiretroviral medication but were told to come back in a week because the clinic ran out of pills.

	Oct. 18, 2010 As Medicare Moves to Pay-for-Performance, Study Highlights Need for Better Data 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.

	Oct. 18, 2010 Food Insecurity a Chronic Problem in Mozambique In Mozambique, Maputo's streets were buzzing with commercial activity Monday and its beaches were packed over the weekend with families having picnics and friends sharing beers. But just last month, there was a very different scene: riots over a hike in food and water prices raged for three days and ended with 13 people dead.

	Oct. 18, 2010 The Power of Pink: Sports, Landmarks Host Breast Cancer Awareness Hue Seeing the White House illuminated in pink recently sparked a conversation in the newsroom about how the color seems ubiquitous around the world during this year's breast cancer awareness campaign.

	Oct. 18, 2010 Judge to Hear Arguments Against Health Care Law; France Warned of Threat A federal judge is hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by the Virginia attorney general challenging one of the major tenets of the health care reform law.

	Oct. 14, 2010 Judge Allows Multistate Health Reform Lawsuit to Move Forward 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.

	Oct. 14, 2010 Chilean Rescue Effort Holds Lessons in Spirit, Ingenuity Jeffrey Brown gets three views on the successful rescue of 33 trapped Chilean, what techniques were used to cause the rescue to run smoothly and what it means for Chile.

	Oct. 14, 2010 The Psychology of Confinement: An Interview with NASA Psychologist Al Holland NASA psychologist Al Holland has spent decades helping to prepare and support astronauts on long-term space missions, and used his expertise to advise the Chilean government on how to help the trapped miners.

	Oct. 13, 2010 California to Let Voters Decide on Marijuana Legalization Judy Muller of KCET reports from California on the a ballot initiative in the state to legalize marijuana.

	Oct. 12, 2010 Supreme Court Weighs Whether Vaccine Makers Can Be Sued Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal talks about Supreme Court arguments on whether drug companies that make vaccines can be sued.

	Oct. 12, 2010 Graphic: Chilean Miners' Trip to the Surface Thirty-three men have been trapped in a gold and copper mine in Copiapo, Chile, since it collapsed on Aug. 5. Starting late Tuesday, a pod painted in the colors of the Chilean flag will begin lifting them one-by-one to the surface in a process expected to last two days.

	Oct. 11, 2010 CDC, NIH Condemn 'Deeply Saddening' Guatemala Study The recent discovery that U.S. researchers intentionally infected Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s spurred angry responses and an apology from President Obama to Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom. Now the directors of the CDC and the National Institutes of Health are condemning the study as "regrettable and deeply saddening."

	Oct. 8, 2010 Does Your Lipitor Smell Funny? Check the Bottle If you are one of the millions who take Pfizer's heart drug Lipitor and happen to have one of the unlucky 90 count bottles of the 40mg pills you may notice an odd, musty odor.

	Oct. 7, 2010 News Wrap: Suicide Bombers Strike Sufi Muslim Shrine in Pakistan In other news Thursday, two suicide bombers killed at least eight people and wounded 65 others at a Sufi Muslim shrine in Karachi. In Southern China, floodwater forced 200,000 people from their homes in the worst flooding there in 50 years.

	Oct. 5, 2010 Health Reform Profiles: A 6-Month Check-Up More than six months after President Obama signed the health care reform bill, how is the overhaul impacting -- or not impacting -- the American public?

	Oct. 4, 2010 Researcher 'Floored' by Discovery of Intentional Infections in Guatemala Ray Suarez speaks with Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby about her discovery of how U.S. scientists did secret syphilis experiments on Guatemalans decades ago.

	Oct. 4, 2010 Nobel Prize Goes to Scientist Who Developed IVF Procedure In the first of this week's Nobel Prize announcements, British scientist Robert Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel for Medicine and Physiology Monday for his work developing the in-vitro fertilization method that led to the birth of the world's first "test-tube baby."

	Oct. 1, 2010 U.S. Apologizes for 'Reprehensible' 1940s Syphilis Study in Guatemala 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.

	Oct. 1, 2010 McDonald's Flap Puts Spotlight on Mini-Med Health Plans 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 its workers.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 30, 2010 Writers in Danger Offered Safe Haven to Practice Craft in Pittsburgh In Pittsburgh, a special program offers foreign writers whose lives are endangered to get a new start and write freely.

	Sept. 30, 2010 Johnson & Johnson Executives Face Congress Over Series of Recalls Johnson & Johnson executives were summoned to testify on Capitol Hill in the wake of a string of recalls that have left the company -- and the FDA -- under fire. Betty Ann Bowser updates the story.

	Sept. 30, 2010 Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer's, Journalist Says When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer's disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer's prevention. One easy way to help prevent it? Blueberries, she says.

	Sept. 24, 2010 FDA Proposes New Tobacco Warning Labels The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unveiled 36 proposed warning labels for cigarette packages and ads. 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 front and back of a pack of cigarettes and 20 percent of every cigarette ad.

	Sept. 23, 2010 For Scientists, Collaborative Efforts Could Speed Medical Advances Special correspondent Dave Iverson reports on a new push to get scientists to work together to find medical cures sooner.

	Sept. 23, 2010 Todd Park Envisions a More Open HHS Todd Park, the chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, says he wants to open up the agency's "treasure trove" of data to help government and consumers make better health decisions.

	Sept. 23, 2010 Democrats Fire Back at GOP Pledge to Repeal Health Reform Judy Woodruff gets two perspectives on Republicans' "Pledge to America" plans to repeal health care and cut government spending from House members Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, and Tom Price, a Georgia Republican.

	Sept. 23, 2010 GOP's Pledge to America Spells Out Goals for House Control Republican leaders unveiled their 2010 campaign platform Thursday, promising that if they win control of the House of Representatives to repeal the 6-month-old health reform law and undo other policies enacted by Democrats. Kwame Holman reports.

	Sept. 23, 2010 For Parkinson's Patients, 'Valley of Death' Separates Science From Cures The valley of death is the gap that sometimes exists between the world of pure science and the world of creating new treatments for a variety of diseases.

	Sept. 23, 2010 Republican 'Repeal and Replace' Strategy Faces Legislative Roadblocks 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 the effort faces legislative hurdles.

	Sept. 22, 2010 News Wrap: $40 Billion Pledged for Global Poverty Fight In other news Wednesday, more than 140 presidents, prime ministers and kings have been meeting at the United Nations to launch a $40 billion global strategy to help end poverty. Also, up to 5 million containers of infant formula will be recalled by Abbott Laboratories due to contamination.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Health Reform at Six Months: What Changes Are Taking Effect? Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at the impact of the health reform bill President Obama signed into law six months ago, what changes are set to take effect this week and how some Americans are already using the law's provisions to improve their health care.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Owners of Tainted Egg Farm Blasted at Congressional Hearing At a recent visit to the Wright County Egg farm, FDA inspectors found decaying rodent corpses, chicken carcasses, live mice and thousands of flies.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Obama Touts Health Reform's Benefits President Obama made a pitch for the benefits of health care reform on the eve of the law's six-month anniversary Wednesday.

	Sept. 22, 2010 Health Reform Law at 6 Months: What Changes Go Into Effect Now? The health reform law hits its 6-month anniversary Thursday, putting a first round of new consumer-protection provisions into effect.

	Sept. 21, 2010 Some Insurers to Stop Offering Child-Only Plans Ahead of New Rules A much-touted new rule banning insurers from denying coverage to children because of pre-existing conditions is about to go into effect. But this week, several major health insurance companies have announced that, in response to the rule, they plan to scrap their child-only health plans altogether.

	Sept. 20, 2010 How Safe Would Genetically Modified Salmon Be to Eat? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is in the process of deciding whether to allow genetically modified salmon to be sold to American consumers and how to label them if they are sold. Margaret Warner gets two perspectives.

	Sept. 16, 2010 In New Orleans, Clinic Caring for Underinsured Once Again Betty Ann Bowser reports from the Crescent City on one doctor's success in establishing clinics for the underinsured after Hurricane Katrina wiped out the city's main charity hospital.

	Sept. 16, 2010 In New Orleans, Rebuilding a Health System After a Hospital Is Destroyed When Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans five years ago, the city's big public hospital, Charity Hospital, was destroyed. On Thursday's NewsHour, Betty Ann Bowser reports on how doctors in New Orleans have worked to rebuild the city's health system over the past five years.

	Sept. 16, 2010 Charity Hospital Evacuation In September 2005, News Orleans' Charity Hospital was evacuated due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina. Patients were moved out of the hospital by military truck, airboat, and any other means possible. Mooney Bryant-Penland, a nurse at the hospital, took these photographs as the evacuation unfolded.

	Sept. 16, 2010 1 in 7 Americans Lived in Poverty in 2009, New Census Data Show 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.

	Sept. 15, 2010 Studies Ask: Which Men Benefit Most From Prostate Cancer Screening? 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.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Ahead of Elections, Lawsuits Revive Debate on Health Reform A judge in Florida listened to arguments filed by 20 attorneys general who are challenging the validity of a new health reform law. Gwen Ifill talks to reporters for more.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Rwanda Sees Gains Against Top Cause of Child Death: Pneumococcal Disease Pneumococcal disease is one of the leading causes of death for children around the world, killing more than 800,000 children younger than 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Update: Haitian Amputee Gets New Leg, New Reason to Dance When the NewsHour team met George Exantus, we were captivated by his story: a prize-winning competitive dancer, he had lost a leg after he was pinned under rubble in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Thanks to donations, he received the sophisticated prosthetic he thought he would never have.

	Sept. 14, 2010 Tuesday: Mideast Peace Talks Extended; Hiker Out of Iranian Prison Israeli-Palestinian peace talks ended without progress on the contentious issue of Jewish settlement construction; Iran released an American hiker more than a year after she was detained; and a federal judge begins hearing arguments in a lawsuit challenging the national health care law.

	Sept. 13, 2010 At Maine Camp, Veterans Take Time to Heal, Reconnect With Families Ray Suarez reports on a special camp in Maine dedicated to help veterans and their families to heal from the emotional wounds of terror and war.

	Sept. 13, 2010 In Congo, Attitudes About Rape as a Weapon Remain Tough to Change Gwen Ifill talks with two experts familiar with the sexual violence that has occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past decade.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Victims, Rapists Speak Out on Rape as Weapon of War in Congo Independent Television News reports on the ongoing use of violent rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Kieve Camp for Veterans in Maine Kieve Camp in Nobleboro, Maine, started by welcoming families of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and now helps families and veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

	Sept. 13, 2010 Camp in Maine Offers Veterans Time to Unwind, Heal Kieve Camp is unique place in Nobleboro, Maine. It began by offering a special type of quiet healing and respite for surviving family members of the victims of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and has since started doing the same for veterans if the Afghan and Iraq wars.

	Sept. 10, 2010 Fort Hood Program Seeks Better Care for Vets A new program at Fort Hood is designed to provide better treatment for wounded soldiers who have returned home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Ray Suarez reports.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Some Veterans With Brain Trauma Still Await Purple Hearts In a collaborative report, we examine why some veterans with traumatic brain injuries are having trouble getting awarded the Purple Heart.

	Sept. 9, 2010 At Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers' Mission Is to Heal A team from the NewsHour and London-based Independent Television News came to Fort Hood in Texas to take a look at the care given to soldiers returned from Afghanistan and Iraq, and those hurt on base, in training or while deployed.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Study: Health Care Spending Will Continue Rising, but Modestly In a new report that's sure to provide fresh ammunition to both sides of the health reform debate, a government estimate released today finds that the new health reform law will not curb the rising costs of care once it takes effect but will not substantially raise them either.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Scientists Use Scans to Better Understand Brain Maturity As children mature, their brains bloom madly with activity -- growing, pruning and rewiring. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine have created a "virtual machine" to study such brain development and to track young brains as they develop.

	Sept. 9, 2010 Fort Hood: Warriors in Transition Fort Hood, the largest Army base in the United States, houses a Wounded Warrior Transition Brigade, where injured soldiers are nursed back to health and returned to the field or to civilian life. Photos by Dan Sagalyn

	Sept. 8, 2010 Pillbox Project Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly identify what drug might have been ingested. The Pillbox project has already begun such a database.

	Sept. 8, 2010 New Genetic Mutation Linked to Ovarian Cancer 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.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Will Open Health Data Save Your Life? After one of health administrator Jim Traficant's two liver transplants, a doctor told him, "The surgery is a science. The medication is an art."

	Sept. 8, 2010 Health Reform Debate Returns to the Airwaves as Midterms Draw Closer 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.

	Sept. 8, 2010 Rise of a MegaCity: Bangladesh's Dhaka Sees Population Boom Nearly 500,000 migrants flow into Dhaka, Bangladesh, each year, leaving the countryside to try to make a living in the big city. It's part of a new landscape of "megacities," which GlobalPost is exploring in a new series.

	Sept. 7, 2010 Chile Dispatch: Trapped Miners Sent Small Luxuries, but Pine for More COPIAPO, Chile \| On Tuesday afternoon, a city of Copiapo truck dumped a fresh load of firewood next to a small cluster of tents where several trapped miners' families have spent the last month camping on the rocky ground.

	Sept. 7, 2010 News Wrap: Gunman Dressed as Iraqi Soldier Kills U.S. Troops In other news Tuesday, a gunman dressed as an Iraqi soldier killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded nine others in the first American military deaths since combat operations ended there last week. In Pakistan, a suicide car bomb killed at least 20 people when it detonated at a police compound.

	Sept. 7, 2010 1 in 5 American Adults Still Smoke, CDC Report Shows After decades of decline, the smoking rate in the United States has plateaued over the past five years.

	Sept. 4, 2010 Global Fund Investigates Possible Theft, Sale of Malaria Medication Malaria causes about 1 million deaths around the world each year, but not all the medication donated to fight the disease is reaching its intended targets.

	Sept. 2, 2010 News Wrap: Another Gulf Oil Rig Fire Extinguished; Workers Rescued Thirteen workers survived a Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion 100 miles south of Vermilion Bay in Louisiana. In Pakistan, thousands of Shiite Muslims mourned the loss of 35 people who were killed in a triple-bombing in Lahore.

	Sept. 2, 2010 5 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Teenagers Remember the Storm In the days following the flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, approximately 1.5 million people throughout the Gulf Coast were displaced from their homes, including 163,000 children. Some of those were young people who became separated from their siblings and parents.

	Sept. 2, 2010 Workers Paying More for Health Insurance as Cash-Strapped Companies Shift Costs Workers' health care costs jumped significantly this year even as overall premium prices rose only slightly, as recession-strapped companies shifted more of the health care cost burden to their employees.

	Sept. 1, 2010 FDA's Safety Role in Question After Egg Recall A massive egg recall over fears of a salmonella outbreak raises new questions on whether the Food and Drug Administration can handle its regulatory role. Betty Ann Bowser has more.

	Sept. 1, 2010 Text Messages Study Shows Fear Turned to Anger on 9/11 By analyzing a database of 500,000 text messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have created an hour-by-hour psychological profile of how some Americans were communicating on that day.

	Sept. 1, 2010 Early Retirees Get New Help With Health Insurance 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.

	Sept. 1, 2010 A Long Road Ahead in Pakistan Recovery Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye has been reporting from Pakistan all week. He talks about his impressions from the ground and what's ahead for Pakistan's many flood victims.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2010 Poll: Public Support Declining for Health Reform Law Despite the continuing efforts of the Obama administration to persuade a skeptical public to support the new health reform law, a poll released Tuesday shows that many voters do not like the changes and do not believe the law will ultimately help them with costs.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Ken Mehlman's Revelation, Strasburg's Unifying Effect Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks weigh in on whether holding a public leadership position as an openly gay man is really possible and pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg's season-ending arm injury.

	Aug. 27, 2010 Slide Show: Long Road Ahead for Pakistan Flood Victims NewsHour Special Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye is in Pakistan this week, reporting on the aftermath of devastating monsoon flooding that has left at least 8 million people in need of aid.

	Aug. 26, 2010 How Is Gulf Coast Mentally Coping With Devastation of Two Disasters? Physical damage from Hurricane Katrina is still evident in New Orleans while the psychological devastation is sometimes harder to detect. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser examines the mental impact of two disasters, Katrina and then the Gulf oil disaster, in the Greater New Orleans area.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Anxiety, Cave-In Concerns Among Mental Hurdles for Chilean Miners The good news that 33 trapped Chilean miners were still alive was soon tempered by the possibility that they may not be rescued until Christmas. Judy Woodruff speaks with University of Southern California professor Lawrence Palinkas about the psychological hurdles ahead for the miners.

	Aug. 26, 2010 News Wrap: Insurgents Kill 8 Police in Afghanistan In other news Thursday, militants attacked police officers at a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan killing eight of them. In Iraq, gunmen killed six pro-government Sunni militiamen in an ambush.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Waterborne Disease Threat Overwhelming Medical Workers in Pakistan Medical personnel in Pakistan are working to control the spread of flood-related waterborne disease, but they face a monumental task as the humanitarian crisis worsens. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports.

	Aug. 26, 2010 Louisiana to get $15 Million for Mental Health Services Recently, BP announced that it would give $52 million for mental health services in the states most affected by the spill, including $15 million for Louisiana.

	Aug. 26, 2010 At Louisiana Forum, Questions on Oil Spill's Long-Term Impact About 60 people gathered in Buras, La., last week to ask a panel of experts questions about the long-term impact of the spill on their lives and livelihoods. NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden co-moderated the forum with Louisiana Public Broadcasting's program "Louisiana Public Square."

	Aug. 24, 2010 Judge's Stem Cell Research Stoppage Debated A federal judge issued a ruling to halt human embryonic stem cell research and "preserve the status quo" from before President Obama expanded research guidelines. Judy Woodruff gets perspectives from Dr. Evan Snyder of the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and David Prentice of the Family Research Council.

	Aug. 23, 2010 Judge Temporarily Blocks Federally Funded Embroynic Stem Cell Research A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's guidelines expanding embryonic stem cell research.

	Aug. 23, 2010 News Wrap: Roadside Bombs Kill 5 NATO Soldiers in Afghanistan In other news Monday, attacks across Afghanistan killed five NATO soldiers, two of whom were Americans. In attacks on Sunday, four U.S. soldiers were killed.

	Aug. 23, 2010 Inedible Eggs: How Future Foodborne Illness Could Be Avoided After a salmonella outbreak led to more than half a billion eggs being recalled, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said new measures must be taken to ensure food safety laws are enforced to prevent future problems. Jeffrey Brown speaks with food safety expert Caroline Smith DeWaal and journalist Elizabeth Weise.

	Aug. 23, 2010 For Military Bastions, Iraq Troop Withdraw is Not the End Amid headlines of soldiers returning from Iraq, it's tempting to think of military communities filled with happily reunited families preparing to pick up where they left off. But in places such as Hopkinsville, Ky., deployments continue, as do the pressures on the local people and economies.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Disease Outbreaks Feared as Pakistan's Floodwaters Spread As the flooding in Pakistan continues to spread, more than 1,500 people have died and millions are homeless, many without access to clean water. The risk of disease outbreaks among the displaced population is high, said UNICEF's Robin Nandy. He talked to the NewsHour about the situation on the ground.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Disease Outbreaks a Major Risk in Pakistan Floods As the flooding in Pakistan continues to spread, more than 1,500 people have died and millions are homeless, many without access to clean water. The risk of disease outbreaks among the displaced population is high, said UNICEF's Robin Nandy. He talked to the NewsHour about the situation on the ground.

	Aug. 19, 2010 Which Eggs Are Suspected of Salmonella? Have you checked your eggs lately? The FDA is warning of a salmonella outbreak in some egg shells.

	Aug. 18, 2010 Alzheimer's Treatment Research Dealt Setback An effort to develop a treatment for Alzheimer's disease was halted after data showed that a new drug was doing more harm than good, leading to more memory loss and putting people at a higher risk for skin cancer. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Dr. Paul Aisen of the University of California, San Diego.

	Aug. 17, 2010 Study: Hearing Loss Up Among Teens Most people think of hearing loss as a problem that begins somewhere later in life, but a new study published Tuesday finds that America's teenagers are getting harder of hearing as well.

	Aug. 13, 2010 Study: Early Puberty in Girls on the Rise A growing body of research indicates puberty is starting earlier among girls in the United States and Europe, raising new questions about the roles of obesity and exposure to chemicals in accelerating development.

	Aug. 12, 2010 Spread of Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' Causes Global Concerns A new gene mutation that can make bacteria into "superbugs" capable of resisting almost all antibiotics is spreading from India and Pakistan and popping up around the globe, according to British researchers.

	Aug. 10, 2010 Spinal Fluid Test a New Tool for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease Doctors may be able to reliably predict a person's chance of developing Alzheimer's disease from a simple analysis of their cerebral spinal fluid, according to a study released Monday.

	Aug. 9, 2010 Heat Wave, Wildfires Pummel Russia As wildfires and a record-setting heatwave continue to pummel Russia Monday, death rates in Moscow are also rising as residents navigate smoke-laden streets and record temperatures.

	Aug. 6, 2010 Chefs Cook Up Ideas for Healthy School Lunches A pair of chefs has stepped out of their kitchens and into school cafeterias to lend their services in hopes of crafting healthier menus for school lunches. Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	Aug. 6, 2010 In Louisiana, Journalists and Cleanup Crews Bake in the Heat If you're not used to it, the heat and humidity along the Gulf Coast can be devastating. Correspondent Tom Bearden's not used to it, despite having made eight trips to the Gulf since April 28. He lives in Colorado, where the humidity rarely gets above 60 percent. Read more in his latest dispatch from Louisiana.

	Aug. 5, 2010 Examining Chemo Drugs' Potential Threats to Health Care Workers As a part of NewsHour Connect, which showcases some of the best public broadcasting reporting from around the country, Enrique Cerna of KCTS in Seattle reports on the dangers that chemotherapy drugs could pose to healthcare workers who handle them.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Heroin-Related Crimes Surge in Wisconsin As part of NewsHour Connect, which showcases the best of public broadcasting from around the country, Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television reports on the surge of heroin-related crimes there.

	Aug. 4, 2010 Pelosi Calls House Back to Work Next Week for Funding Bill Democrats overcame a Republican filibuster Wednesday to move legislation that would provide states with funding for Medicaid and education.

	Aug. 3, 2010 Katrina 5 Years Later: Housing Concerns and 'Toxic Trailers' A resident of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward mows his lawn in front of a FEMA trailer in 2006.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Sebelius: Health Reform Misinformation Persists; Medicare Solvency Now Stronger With more measures from the health care reform law set to take effect, more states are filing legal challenges as well. Judy Woodruff talks to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius for more on the latest health care reform developments and what consumers may see next.

	Aug. 2, 2010 New HealthCare.gov Site Aims to Teach Americans About Insurance Options 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.

	Aug. 2, 2010 Judge Allows Virginia Lawsuit Against Health Reform to Move Forward 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 July 29, 2010 Doctor Stresses Intuition of Touch, Not Technology Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on one doctor's mission to promote a hands-on approach to healing and diagnosis. He speaks with doctor and author Abraham Verghese.

	July 29, 2010 Keeping Disease at Bay in the Camps of Port-au-Prince The tent camps of Port-au-Prince have all the makings of disease breeding grounds; thousands of people living in temporary shelters, in very close contact, completely reliant on aid for clean water and sanitation services.

	July 23, 2010 Promising Science Highlights From 2010 AIDS Conference This year's International AIDS Conference, drawing to a close Friday, produced among other things a high-profile scientific breakthrough, endless policy discussions and plenty of new research to digest.

	July 22, 2010 UNAIDS: AIDS Funding Faltering at Critical Moment VIENNA, Austria \| Global AIDS leaders continue to call for sustaining and increasing HIV/AIDS funding in the face of the global economic crisis at the International AIDS Conference this week.

	July 21, 2010 Drug Use Accelerating HIV Epidemic in Eastern Europe VIENNA, Austria \| Europe now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world, due in large part to intravenous drug use, the World Health Organization told the International AIDS Conference in Vienna Wednesday.

	July 20, 2010 Study Reveals Potential Breakthrough for Reducing HIV Among Women A two-year study unveiled in Vienna found that HIV infections in females were cut by 39 percent by using a new vaginal gel. Margaret Warner speaks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for more.

	July 20, 2010 Study Shows Gel Holds Promise for Reducing HIV Risk In a big step forward for the field of HIV prevention, a new study shows for the first time a microbicide gel provided significant protection for women from HIV infection.

	July 19, 2010 News Wrap: Bombings Kill 2 Troops in Afghanistan In other news Monday, roadside bombings in Afghanistan raised the U.S. death toll for June to 42. Meanwhile, security was tightened in Kabul on the eve of an international aid donors summit.

	July 19, 2010 Special Olympics Enlisting Able-Bodied Youth to Reduce Bias Judy Woodruff reports on the scene at the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics 2010 USA National Games in Nebraska.

	July 16, 2010 New Early Alzheimer's Test Raises Hopes for Improved Treatment Margaret Warner reports on how a new test designed to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease can change the scope of treatments sooner for patients.

	July 16, 2010 Authorities Charge 94 Suspects With Medicare Fraud Federal authorities charged 94 health care providers with Medicare fraud Friday, and 36 of the accused have been arrested so far.

	July 15, 2010 In Haiti, Mental Health Still a Concern for Many Quake Survivors In the last of his week-long series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez examines the mental health problems survivors are having following January's devastating earthquake.

	July 15, 2010 Port-au-Prince Maternity Clinics Pushed to Limit It's nearly dusk in Port-au-Prince on a recent sweltering summer evening, and four women at the Health Center of Croix des Bouquets are in the early stages of labor.

	July 14, 2010 In Haiti, Amputees Face Different Kind of Healing As part of his latest series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez details the road ahead for citizens who lost limbs after the country's devastating earthquake in January.

	July 14, 2010 Diabetes Drug Avandia Draws Debate Over Risks, Medical Benefits Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the safety concerns surrounding the diabetes drug Avandia after U.S. health advisers recommended it stay on the market with increased warnings to consumers despite associated heart risks.

	July 14, 2010 States Face Layoffs, Cuts as Federal Medicaid Aid Stalls 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.

	July 14, 2010 Life in Haiti's Tent Cities More than 1,300 tent camps are housing an estimated 1.5 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake in January. Some camps are well serviced by a variety of NGOs, but other more informal camps have little support.

	July 14, 2010 Life in Haiti's Tent Cities All week the NewsHour is reporting on the state of recovery in Haiti, six months after a powerful earthquake devastated the impoverished island nation.

	July 13, 2010 New U.S. AIDS Strategy Aims to Reduce New Infections by 25% 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 HIV among high-risk populations like blacks, Hispanics and gay men.

	July 13, 2010 What Now in Haiti? President Preval Talks with Ray Suarez The temperature has been in the mid-90s, but the humidity makes it feel like it's over 100.

	July 12, 2010 Rules Change for Vets' PTSD Benefits New government rules will make it easier for military veterans to claim disability benefits for those diagnosed with PTSD. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	July 12, 2010 Six Months After Quake, Haiti Still Rebuilding Ray Suarez reports on the still-recovering Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, where some one million people still remain homeless.

	July 12, 2010 New PTSD Treatment Rules for Vets Come Too Late for Some When the Department of Veterans Affairs announced its changes for how military vets can quality for PTSD treatment Monday, it made us think back to a very powerful story we did in 2008 on the impact of these health issues on military families.

	July 12, 2010 News Wrap: Warrant Issued for President of Sudan In other news Monday, the International Criminal Court at The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Swiss authorities freed movie director Roman Polanski from electronic monitoring after rejecting extradition requests by the U.S.

	July 9, 2010 Oil Spill Takes Emotional Toll on Gulf Residents Citing the "unprecedented" nature of the BP oil spill disaster, federal and state medical officials expressed concern Friday about what they see as mounting mental health issues that people in the Gulf states are facing.

	July 9, 2010 Dispatch From Haiti: Getting Back to Work in Port-au-Prince PORT-AU-PRINCE \| Renette Saintjuste stocks a dizzying mix of items for her tiny makeshift shop in the Sant Sportif Dadadou tent camp in Haiti's capital.

	July 8, 2010 Scenes From Haiti, 6 Months After the Earthquake An estimated 1.5 million Haitians were displaced in January's earthquake. Six months later, the majority of that population is still living in tent settlements and the medical infrastructure is still fragile.

	July 8, 2010 Scenes from Haiti, Six Months After the Quake An estimated 1.5 million Haitians were displaced in January's earthquake. Six months later, the majority of that population is still living in tent settlements and the medical infrastructure is still fragile. A reporting team from the PBS NewsHour has returned to Haiti to assess where things stand.

	July 7, 2010 Scorching Heat Wave Waylays East Coast States Scorching heat and humidity gripped the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, pushing electricity use toward record levels and disrupting train travel. Gwen Ifill reports on how people are coping with the temperatures topping 100 degrees.

	July 7, 2010 Obama Uses Recess Appointment to Install New Medicare, Medicaid Chief 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.

	July 7, 2010 In Louisiana, 'Toxic Trailers' Return to House Oil Workers It was just a couple of weeks ago when I looked out the window of our van as we drove through southernmost Louisiana ... and wondered where all those mobile homes and travel trailers came from.

	July 7, 2010 Ray Suarez: Returning to the Scene of the Quake in Haiti Soon after January's earthquake rocked Haiti, Ray Suarez visited the stricken country to report on the aftermath. Now, Suarez is returning to see how things are faring six months later.

	July 6, 2010 High-Risk Patients, States Prepare for New Insurance Rules Starting this summer, high-risk patients with preexisting conditions will be able to apply for temporary insurance as part of the health care reform law passed in March. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the new program and why some states are opting out.

	July 5, 2010 San Francisco Ramps Up Care for City's Uninsured While the U.S. has struggled with an imperfect health care system, San Francisco has launched its own initiative to extend coverage to the more than 60,000 adult residents in the city without insurance. Spencer Michels reports.

	July 1, 2010 HHS Starts Accepting Applicants for High-Risk Pools for the Uninsured 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.



	JUNE June 29, 2010 Diabetes Drug Avandia May Pose Heart Risks, Studies Find 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.

	June 25, 2010 After Hurricanes, Gulf Residents Face New Mental Health Risks Over Oil Leak The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is taking another toll: the mental health of residents, even as the region is still coping with the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Gustav. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser details the problems as seen in the region's sizable Vietnamese community.

	June 24, 2010 A Decade on, Human Genome Research Yet to Directly Affect Many Patients Ten years after the cracking of the human genetic code, Jeffrey Brown talks to a scientist about advancements and setbacks in using the research to pinpoint the causes of illnesses and craft individualized therapies.

	June 24, 2010 Fake Drugs A Global Health Threat Fake drugs manufactured to resemble dozens of well-known pharmaceutical brands are making their way across international borders and threatening lives, the World Customs Organization said Thursday.

	June 23, 2010 Uncertainty Over Health Effects of Oil Cleanup Worry Some Along Gulf As the oil cleanup along the Gulf Coast continues, Betty Ann Bowser reports on the health worries related to the ongoing oil disaster that are arising for some coastal residents and cleanup workers.

	June 23, 2010 Study: Cell Phone Towers Not a Cancer Risk to Children There are still unanswered questions about cell phone use and cancer risks, but a new study could alleviate parents of at least one fear.

	June 21, 2010 Filmmaker Explores Intense Situations Faced by Doctors Without Borders Nearly 40 years ago, a group of French doctors and journalists began a humanitarian organization to bring medical aid to those who were most vulnerable. Doctors Without Borders (M�decins Sans Fronti�res) now dispatches nearly 27,000 medical professionals to nations suffering from humanitarian and political crises.

	June 21, 2010 Hurricane Season Could Bring More Misery to Haiti, Gulf Coast The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is projecting a busy 2010 hurricane season, with as many as seven major hurricanes possible.

	June 18, 2010 Senate Votes to Delay Medicare Payment Cuts, but Issues Remain The Senate on Friday passed a bill that will delay for six months a 21 percent pay cut to doctors who treat Medicare patients.

	June 18, 2010 Mali, Nepal, Guatemala to Benefit From Revamped Global Health Plan The State Department and USAID announced eight focus countries that will get extra help from Obama's proposed six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative Friday.

	June 17, 2010 Haiti's Health Care System Faces a 'Defining Moment' As Haiti continues to rebuild from January's earthquake, educating and training more Haitian doctors and nurses is essential to reviving and restructuring the country's hobbled health system, says the country's health minister.

	June 16, 2010 New Insurance Rules Under Scrutiny The Department of Health and Human Services announced new regulations Monday that it says will fulfill the Obama administration's health care reform promise that "if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.

	June 15, 2010 'New Recruits' Documents Young Entrepreneurs in the Field The PBS documentary "The New Recruits" follows three young business students to India, Pakistan and Kenya as they try to apply the concept of social enterprise to local populations. One such "recruit" speaks to Hari Sreenivasan about his experiences.

	June 11, 2010 Health Concerns Heighten as Oil Spill Spreads The sobering images of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are widely known: oil covered birds and sludge-choked coastal grasses. But ecosystems may not be the only ones to see negative effects -- what about the spill's possible health impact on humans?

	June 9, 2010 FDA Chief: Agency Is Committed to Improving on Food Safety Issues U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told the PBS NewsHour Wednesday that a recent report criticizing the agency for its handling of food safety issues was "very much on message and it reinforces the direction we have been moving our foods program over this past year."

	June 8, 2010 Obama Touts Health Care Reform Progress as Election Looms President Obama kicked off efforts to reinvigorate public support for health care reform, ahead of more changes taking effect and the midterm elections. Judy Woodruff gets an update on the how the law is being enacted from Susan Dentzer, editor of Health Affairs.

	June 7, 2010 Cancer Drug Treatment Reserach Highlights Oncology Conference Researchers reported new progress in the treatment of breast, skin, lung and ovarian cancers at a weekend meeting of top cancer experts in Chicago. Ray Suarez talks to American Society of Clinical Oncology President George Sledge for an update on the new medical advances.

	June 7, 2010 Seven Convicted in Deadly 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak in India A court in India has convicted seven former executives of a Union Carbide subsidiary of "causing death by negligence" for a gas leak at a company plant that killed an estimated 15,000 people in the 1980s.

	June 7, 2010 Forum: Obesity Becoming Global Problem Ray Suarez hosts an online forum with obesity experts and authors Barry Popkin and Michael Power on the causes of weight gain in societies around the world.

	June 4, 2010 Doctors Group Launches Ad Campaign Against Medicare Cuts The American Medical Association on Thursday launched a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign aimed at stopping a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians.

	June 3, 2010 Vaccination, Education Key to Stemming Asian Hepatitis Outbreaks Spencer Michels reports on the campaigns to fight hepatitis B among Asian populations worldwide. The potentially fatal liver disease is100 times more likely to afflict Asians than non-Asians.

	June 3, 2010 As China Prospers, New Health Concerns Emerge Ray Suarez wraps up his reporting trip to China on global health issues with a discussion about the health challenges facing the country's growing middle class.

	June 3, 2010 Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic As the government highlights the growing health risks of childhood obesity, Betty Ann Bowser reports from the Mississippi Delta on how so-called "food deserts" keep some communities from access to healthy food.

	June 3, 2010 Five Days in the (Food) Desert Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reflects on her reporting trip to the Mississippi Delta, where she experienced trying to find healthy food in a "food desert."

	June 3, 2010 In Mississippi, Growing Vegetables in a 'Food Desert' In the Mississippi Delta, a loose-knit group of teachers, farmers and community activists are trying to teach more students to grow their own vegetables.

	June 2, 2010 China Tries to Put Best Foot Forward With Shanghai World Expo As part of his series from China, Ray Suarez reports on the ongoing 2010 Shanghai Expo, where the large and decadent Chinese pavilion captures the country in transition.

	June 1, 2010 Ask Your Questions: Confronting the Global Obesity Problem On Tuesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez explores the growing rates of obesity in China, but Beijing is certainly not alone in dealing with this modern-day health crisis-- about 400 million adults are obese worldwide, and 1.

	June 1, 2010 For China's Growing Middle Class, Expanding Waistlines Pose Problem In the second in his series of reports from China on global health issues, Ray Suarez reports on the dramatic increase in obesity as the country's growing class of educated and well-paid consumers adopt some Western-style shopping and eating habits.

	June 1, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: Obesity on the Rise in China If one picture from China can tell a story of how this country has changed in the 21st century, it's one of a line of youths boarding a bus in front of a hospital for a field trip. It's a fat reduction hospital. The trip is to a nearby gym. And all the young people are obese.



	MAY May 31, 2010 China Faces Growing Health Crisis from Prevalent Tobacco Use In the first of three global health reports from China, Ray Suarez examines the work of anti-tobacco advocates in China, where the government -- which is a huge producer of tobacco products -- has done little to quash the deadly smoking epidemic.

	May 31, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: China's Conflict of Interest on Tobacco It was interesting, kind of retro, to be in a country where so many people still light up, where so many stores were selling cigarettes, and the telltale odor of smoke, or a just-stubbed out butt, seemed ever present.

	May 31, 2010 World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Rising Number of Female Smokers Women in the developing world could be the next growth market for tobacco companies, the World Health Organization warns on World No Tobacco Day.

	May 25, 2010 High-Risk Pools Set to Begin in July, But Funding, Fairness Questions Remain 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. The pools are a temporary fix; they're designed to last only until 2014, when new regulations will go into effect requiring insurance companies to accept all applicants.

	May 24, 2010 Lancet Study: Child Death Rates Dropping Around the World Fewer children are dying around the world each year and the decline in child deaths is accelerating, according to a study published Monday in the Lancet.

	May 20, 2010 WHO Plan Targets Role of Marketing, Pricing in Alcohol Abuse World health ministers agreed Thursday that alcohol advertising targeted to young people should be limited, and sponsorships regulated.

	May 19, 2010 Paramedics in the Line of Fire in Mexico's Drug War In the heart of the Mexican drug war in Juarez, emergency medical technicians face unique challenges as they respond to the bloodshed. Global Post reporter Ioan Grillo reports from Mexico.

	May 19, 2010 Novartis Employees Awarded $250 Million in Gender Bias Lawsuit Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG must pay $250 million in punitive damages after a federal jury in New York found the company consistently discriminated against its female employees.

	May 18, 2010 Frontline Examines Hidden Scars of Going to War in 'The Wounded Platoon' "The Wounded Platoon," the latest FRONTLINE documentary, explores the mental health implications of war by focusing on "the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry, and how the war followed them home."

	May 18, 2010 Wounded Warriors The 'Wounded Warrior' art therapy program at Pikes Peak Behavioral Health Group helps soldiers at Fort Carson work through physical and psychological trauma after they return from combat. Their artwork is currently on display at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs, CO.

	May 13, 2010 Reporter's Notebook: Turning Heads in China At five-and-a-half feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyes and a beard, I can walk unnoticed in great big chunks of the world.

	May 12, 2010 Mississippi Wages Fried Food Fight Against Childhood Obesity As First Lady Michelle Obama implements a national plan to end the U.S.'s childhood obesity epidemic, Betty Ann Bowser looks at the battle being waged in Mississippi against the fried foods that have become traditional staples in the state.

	May 12, 2010 In Mississipi, Childhood Obesity Hurts Military Recruiting High school senior DeaShaun Taylor wants to join the army when he graduates this spring.

	May 12, 2010 Through a Child's Lens: Two Years After the China Quake On May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 70,000 people dead and 18,000 missing. In an effort to document what life is like in the region now, the American Red Cross distributed 200 disposable cameras to students for a photo competition.

	May 12, 2010 Genetics and Athletics: Is It in You? Great athletes are often referred to as "naturals" in their respective sports, but how much of their talent can be traced back to DNA is still uncertain to scientists.

	May 11, 2010 First Lady Calls for Coordinated Effort to Reduce Childhood Obesity A federal task force called for marketers of sugary and other unhealthy foods to voluntarily limit their advertising to children on Tuesday.

	May 4, 2010 CNET Editor on 3G iPad, Competition in Tablet Market, Robotic Diet Assistant We spoke with CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood back when the iPad was unveiled following months of speculation. We brought her back to chat about the rollout of the 3G iPad and whether that would slow down the data network in tech-heavy areas.

	May 3, 2010 Q&A: Addressing Mental Health and Trauma in Haiti Nearly four months after the earthquake in Haiti that killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless, mental health workers are trying to help the survivors cope with their feelings of distress, loss and fear.



	APRIL April 30, 2010 WHO: Gonorrhea Could Become Untreatable Gonorrhea may soon become untreatable, due in large part to the misuse of the antibiotics currently used against the sexually transmitted disease, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.

	April 29, 2010 Insurance Industry to End Rescissions in May Major health insurers announced this week that they will end the controversial practice of dropping customers who become sick.

	April 27, 2010 35 Years After Vietnam War: The Path Back Home NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro recently reported from Vietnam on the stories of several Vietnamese-Americans, who returned to their country of birth, and what they found once they got there.

	April 26, 2010 Debating the Ethics of Rationing End-of-Life Care NewsHour analyst Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, moderated a Miller Center of Public Affairs debate on the ethics of rationing end-of-life health care after the issue gained prominence in the health care reform discussions. Here's an excerpt:

	April 21, 2010 'Too Fat to Fight': Report Says School Lunches a Threat to National Security A new report says that 27 percent of all Americans ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to join the military.

	April 20, 2010 News Wrap: FDA May Require Food Companies to Cut Sodium In other news Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration may consider new regulations to cut sodium content in food products to help stem the growing health consequences. Also, a military group told Congress that school lunches are to blame for the obesity epidemic that is hurting eligibility for the armed services.

	April 20, 2010 Insurers to Act Early to Fill Coverage Gap for Young Adults Thousands of college graduates won't have to worry about getting dropped from their parents' health insurance after they get their diplomas this spring.

	April 16, 2010 Marc Ambinder's Personal Journey in the 'Fat Nation' Hari Sreenivasan worked with The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder at ABC News for a few years. Usually, they talk politics, but this time they spoke about a subject far more personal: obesity.

	April 16, 2010 Gwen's Take: Debating the Debate I got a lot of mail this week, almost all of it online, and much of it angry. The reason? I tried to tell both sides of a story.

	April 16, 2010 Friday: Europe's Travel Delays Worsen; Same-sex Partners Get Hospital Rights A synopsis of the top stories of the day.

	April 15, 2010 Town Hall Spotlights Voter Frustrations in Tampa As part of a series spotlighting public opinion of government, Judy Woodruff moderates a town hall meeting on the economy, politics and more in Tampa.

	April 15, 2010 Full Video: Fla. Residents, Politicians Talk Taxes and Debt at Town Hall At a town hall meeting hosted by Judy Woodruff, West Central Florida residents asked federal, state and local government officials about the recession, partisanship, government spending and more.

	April 14, 2010 Investors Help Bring Sanitation to Kenya's Poor Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Kenya, where private capital is being used to help install toilets and sanitation facilities in the country's poorest areas.

	April 14, 2010 Spotlight City: Tax Day Town Hall in Tampa All week in Tampa, we've been exploring what Americans think about their government, including reactions to the foreclosure crisis, health care reform, federal spending and more.

	April 14, 2010 Study Finds Big Drop in Global Maternal Deaths The number of women dying from childbirth has dropped dramatically -- by about 35 percent -- around the world since 1980, according to a new study released Monday by the Lancet.

	April 14, 2010 Among Florida Retirees, Anger Over Health Care Reform Mike Glantz has never been particularly politically involved. But the 70-something decided he was bothered enough by what's going on in Washington to organize a "tea party" meeting in this central Florida community.

	April 13, 2010 Floridians Consider Health Reform's Merits Our Spotlight City coverage in Tampa looks at how the government's expanded role in health care will affect the lives and livelihoods of four Floridians.

	April 13, 2010 Health Reform Law Remains a Hot Topic in Florida As part the Spotlight City series from Tampa, Betty Ann Bowser reports on the public reaction to the new health care reform law and why it's still being debated in Florida.

	April 13, 2010 Spotlight City Highlights Floridians' Varied Views on Health Reform 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 'Frontline' Explores the Politics of Health Care in 'Obama's Deal' The "Frontline" report "Obama's Deal" premieres Tuesday on PBS, giving viewers an in-depth insider's view on the year-long, high-stakes health care reform debate.

	April 9, 2010 Tax Day Town Hall Meeting With Romer, Martinez: Ask Your Questions We want you to be part of a town hall meeting we're hosting in Tampa -- regardless of whether you happen to live in Florida or not.

	April 9, 2010 Brooks, Marcus on Legacy of John Paul Stevens Columnists David Brooks and Ruth Marcus sort through the top political stories of the week, including the retirement of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and the announcement by Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan that he will not seek re-election.

	April 9, 2010 Virginia Voters Examine Health Reform In the second of two reports on the implications of the new health care law, Betty Ann Bowser reports from Virginia as Rep. Tom Perriello meets with constituents.

	April 9, 2010 Who is Making Money in Our Health Care System? Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	April 8, 2010 Health Reform a Big Campaign Plank for Congressional Challengers In the first of two reports on the implications of the new health reform law for members of Congress this election season, Spencer Michels reports from California on how Republican challengers are making reform a key issue ahead of November.

	April 8, 2010 Will Health Care Reform Increase the National Debt? Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	April 7, 2010 Health Workers Push to Eradicate Guinea Worm Parasite in Sudan Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Sudan about a painful and debilitating parasite called the guinea worm and efforts by health workers and the Carter Center to eradicate it.

	April 7, 2010 Eradicating Guinea Worm, Step-by-Step Poverty rarely gets more degrading than when people are forced to drink from the same muddy ponds as livestock and wild animals. Yet this was a common scene on my most recent visit to Southern Sudan and rural Ethiopia.

	April 7, 2010 News Wrap: Obama Administration May Cancel Karzai Visit In other news Wednesday, the White House said it may rescind an invitation to the Afghan president due to strained relations and questions over his commitment to fighting terrorism. Also, the Thai government declared a state of emergency after protesters broke into Parliament, forcing lawmakers to flee by helicopter.

	April 2, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Americans' Attitudes Toward Health Reform Bill Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the political climate during Congress' spring break. As tourists flood to Washington for the National Cherry Blossom Festival, members of Congress are headed home to some districts where constituents are very dissatisfied with President Obama's health reform law.

	April 2, 2010 Can Genes Be Patented? Ruling Reignites Debate A federal court this week invalidated patents filed by biotech companies on the human genome, igniting debate on exactly who owns genetic research. Jeffrey Brown gets two points of view on the legal implications of the case.

	April 2, 2010 Health Reform Implementation Begins with High-Risk Pools 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 in a new insurance high-risk pool program.

	April 1, 2010 In Peru, 'Elite' AIDS Patients Boost Vaccine Research Efforts In the final report in his series about health issues in Peru, Ray Suarez reports on the country's war on AIDS through research on rare patients whose bodies can effectively suppress the virus.

	April 1, 2010 Health Care Reform Challenges Continue from Many States With 14 state governments suing over health care reform, Judy Woodruff gets opposing views about the constitutionality of the new federal law.

	April 1, 2010 News Wrap: New England Floodwaters Recede In other news Thursday, floodwater began to recede in New England's hard-hit communities, leaving enormous damage in its wake. Also, new federal rules for gas mileage and auto emissions became final.

	April 1, 2010 Life as an HIV Elite Controller Washington, D.C., resident Bob Hoff has been HIV positive for more than 25 years, but has no detectable viral load and has never had to take medication. Over the years he has seen many friends die of AIDS, but his disease has never progressed.

	April 1, 2010 States Mount Challenges to Health Reform Law 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.

	April 1, 2010 State Challenges to Health Care Reform Legislators in 38 states have introduced legislation opposing the new health care reform law signed by President Obama, and attorneys general in 14 states have filed lawsuits against the federal government challenging its constitutionality. Explore details on the legislative and legal challenges in your state.

	April 1, 2010 HIV: A Killer... Under Control? Ray Suarez writes about meeting several HIV elite controllers, people who have been HIV positive for years but have no viral load and do not progress.

	April 1, 2010 Chart: States Challenge Health Care Reform Legislators in 38 states have introduced legislation opposing the new health care reform law signed by President Obama, and attorneys general in 14 states have filed lawsuits against the federal government challenging its constitutionality. Explore details of the legislative and legal challenges in your state.



	MARCH March 31, 2010 Peru Eyes Innovations in Rural Maternity Health As part of his continuing series on Peru, Ray Suarez reports on how government strategies to reduce deaths from childbirth among indigenous women who live far from health services could also help women in other Latin American countries.

	March 31, 2010 How Do Other Countries Afford Universal Health Care? Paul Solman answers your questions on business and economic news on "The Business Desk."

	March 31, 2010 Loans Provide Opportunity for TB Patients in Peru During Oscar Ccencho Huamani's three-year battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, he was forced to quit his job because he was too weak to work. Like so many other recovered TB patients living in Peru, he needed an income desperately to buy food and stay healthy.

	March 30, 2010 Health Care May Grant Obama Legacy as 'Reformer' In the wake of the passage of health care reform, Jim Lehrer talks to historians Ellen Fitzpatrick and Richard Norton Smith and columnists Michael Gerson and Clarence Page about what the victory means for the Obama presidency.

	March 30, 2010 New Law Changes Student Loan Landscape President Obama enacted a sweeping remake of the student lending market by signing the final piece of the health care overhaul into law. Jeffrey Brown talks to a higher education reporter about how the new law will impact college students and their universities.

	March 30, 2010 Politico: Obama's Post-Reform Poll Bump Appears Fleeting Now that President Obama has shepherded historic health care reform legislation into law, will that translate into a higher approval rating? Politico reporter Josh Gerstein spoke with us about what the health care victory may or may not do for President Obama's popularity.

	March 30, 2010 Obama Signs Health Care, Student Loan Changes Into Law 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.

	March 30, 2010 Tuesday: Obama to Sign Overhaul to Health Care, Student Loan Systems President Barack Obama will cap the overhaul to health care on Tuesday when he travels from the White House to a local community college to sign the package of "fixes" to the legislation passed by Congress last week.

	March 29, 2010 Sebelius Seeks to Quell Debate on Health Coverage for Children Providing coverage to children with pre-existing conditions is a cornerstone of the new health law, and central to President Obama's argument for reform.

	March 29, 2010 In Peru, Life for the Life-Givers Imagine entering the final weeks of pregnancy knowing if there were problems in labor and childbirth, you were hours, sometimes days, from the nearest medical help.

	March 29, 2010 Berwick Picked to Head Medicare, Medicaid Transition 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.

	March 26, 2010 Shields and Brooks Tackle the Aftermath of Health Reform Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the week, including the passage of health care reform and how it may shape the political landscape looking toward the midterm elections.

	March 26, 2010 News Wrap: White House Unveils Mortgage Plan In other news Friday, the White House unveiled its new initiatives to help homeowners at risk for foreclosure and Congress sent the final installment of the health care bill to President Obama, with a few adjustments.

	March 26, 2010 Susan Dentzer Answers Your Questions about Health Reform 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.

	March 26, 2010 Gwen's Take: Translating the History of Health Reform I have a little hobby as a journalist. I love to listen to how people use words. That sounds simpler than it is. It requires the listener to be skeptical rather than cynical, yet to cheerfully expose the meaning behind the meaning.

	March 26, 2010 Friday: Iraq to Release Election Results; House Approves Senate Fixes Supporters of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad demand a vote recount ahead of the final results for the country's general election.

	March 25, 2010 Rep. Mike Pence Details GOP View on Health Reform Jeffrey Brown talks to Indiana Republican Rep. Mike Pence about the GOP view of health care reform as the reconciliation changes move back to the House for a final vote.

	March 25, 2010 Rahm Emanuel on Health Care and the Obama Agenda With Congress poised to finish its changes to the new health care law, Jim Lehrer talks to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel about the public reaction and what's next on the president's agenda.

	March 25, 2010 A Flurry of Final Activity on Health Reform Democrats and Republicans denounced threats and vandalism aimed at lawmakers who voted for the new health care law, as the changes from the reconciliation process were sent the bill back to the House for a final vote. Ray Suarez reports.

	March 25, 2010 Peru Weighs Low Cost Options to Tackle Deadly Cervical Cancer Cervical cancer is one of the main causes of death for women in Peru, where screening for the disease is sporadic. Now, health workers are considering low-tech and low-cost options that could make a difference in poor rural areas.

	March 25, 2010 Obama Touts Health Care Reform, Challenges Republicans on Repeal Fight 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.

	March 25, 2010 Senate Clears Fixes to Health Care Bill The U.S. Senate has passed a package of fixes to the health care reform bill signed into law by President Obama this week, clearing the way for a final vote on the reconciliation measure by the House later today.

	March 25, 2010 With Menu Labeling Law, Diners Will Soon Know Calorie Counts Diners will soon begin getting a lot more information about the calorie counts in their fast food and other restaurant meals -- a provision in the newly-passed health care reform bill will require all restaurant chains with more than 20 locations to post food calorie counts on their menus.

	March 25, 2010 Thursday: Health Bill Heads Back to House; Lawmakers Receive Threats Just when House Democrats thought they were out, Senate Republicans pulled them back in - at least temporarily. Health care reform is headed back for a second vote in the House after GOP lawmakers in the Senate early Thursday morning identified two minor provisions that violate the rules of reconciliation.

	March 24, 2010 Excerpts: Pelosi on Health Reform as a Model for Future Legislation Fresh off the passage of sweeping health care reform legislation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke with Jim Lehrer Wednesday about the political battle over the bill, what it means for the American public and why lawmakers were so sharply divided along party lines during the debate.

	March 24, 2010 Health Reform: What Are the Changes to Medicare? Gwen Ifill talks to NPR reporter Julie Rovner about how changes to Medicare, including new taxes and adjustments in prescription drug coverage, under health care reform may impact Americans over the age of 65.

	March 24, 2010 Newsmaker: Speaker Pelosi on Finishing Health Care's Uphill Climb After Sunday's historic vote on health care reforms in the House, Jim Lehrer talks to Speaker Nancy Pelosi about finding enough votes to pass President Obama's signature domestic issue.

	March 24, 2010 Senate Republicans Push Back on Health Care Fixes Republicans proposed a long list of amendments during Senate debate on a package of changes to the new health care bill, as Democrats attempt to finish the legislation. Ray Suarez reports.

	March 24, 2010 President Obama Signs Executive Order on Abortion 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.

	March 24, 2010 Patchwork Nation: Healthcare Aside, Economy Still Dominant The headlines may be all about health care reform this week, but throughout the United States, the biggest story continues to be the sputtering economy.

	March 24, 2010 Wednesday: Obama to Sign Order on Abortion; Senate Picks Up Debate A day after signing health care reform into law, President Barack Obama on Wednesday will sign an executive order reaffirming restrictions on federal funding for abortions.

	March 23, 2010 Health Reform: What Changes for the Uninsured? As part of continuing coverage on the impact of health care legislation, Ray Suarez talks to Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs, about how the new regulations and penalties will impact coverage for people without insurance.

	March 23, 2010 Republicans Take Aim at Health Reform Reconciliation Bill President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care reform bill into law today, as the Senate began debate on its companion measure. Jim Lehrer talks to Arizona Republican Jon Kyl about efforts to stall the final stage of health care's passage and challenges to its constitutionality.

	March 23, 2010 Politico Editor: Health Reform Push Will Reverberate in 2010 Elections As we start to look closer at the political fallout from health care reform, Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how the legislative battle over the bill in Congress will now shift to a political battle during the 2010 mid-term elections.

	March 23, 2010 What You Should Know About Health Care Reform: Two Views President Obama signed health care reform into law in a White House ceremony Tuesday. Two players in the debate over reform offer their views on what Americans need to know about the bill.

	March 23, 2010 The International Response to Health Care Reform Editorial pages of newspapers around the world commented on the United States' new health care reform law. Read a roundup of what they had to say.

	March 23, 2010 President Obama Signs Health Reform Into Law 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. Watch excerpts of the ceremony.

	March 23, 2010 Q&A: Norm Ornstein on the Reconciliation Vote Norm Ornstein, congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a regular NewsHour guest, discusses the details of the reconciliation vote on health care reform coming up in the Senate.

	March 23, 2010 Tuesday: Obama Set to Sign Health Bill, Meet With Israel's Netanyahu President Barack Obama is set to put into law the most sweeping piece of social legislation in decades Tuesday when he puts his signature on the health care overhaul bill in a White House ceremony.

	March 22, 2010 Axelrod: Health Care Reform Now a Reality In a newsmaker interview, Judy Woodruff talks to senior White House adviser David Axelrod about the long political push to pass health care reform, the role of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and what public opinion polls say about the overhaul.

	March 22, 2010 Obama Poised to Sign Health Reform Bill The House's Sunday night vote on health care sets the stage for the Senate and President Barack Obama to complete the passage of the historic reforms. Jeffrey Brown talks to Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs, about what the legislation will mean for the American public.

	March 22, 2010 Health Reform: What to Expect, and When The health reform bill sets a timeline for phasing in reform that's several years long. Some provisions will take effect quickly, many will be phased in over the next four years and one major item won't kick in until 2018.

	March 22, 2010 A Reader's Guide to Health Reform A brief guide to some of the most interesting articles about reform that have been penned over the course of the 14-month-long debate, including stories about costs, limitations, and unintended consequences -- and how reform could affect you.

	March 22, 2010 President Obama, Democrats Pass Historic Health Care Bill. Now What? President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden embrace in the White House following Sunday night's vote passing health care reform.

	March 21, 2010 House Passes Historic Health Care Reform Legislation 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 decade.

	March 21, 2010 Live-blogging the House Health Reform Debate Read updates and watch excerpts of the House floor debate on the health care reform and reconciliation bills.

	March 20, 2010 Democrats Inch Closer to Pushing Health Reform Over Finish Line With the hours ticking down before a pivotal vote on the fate of health reform, President Obama made a trip to Capitol Hill Saturday to rally the House Democratic caucus one final time in his push to persuade undecided Democrats to vote for the bill.

	March 19, 2010 Shields and Brooks Tackle Nervousness over Pending Health Reform Vote Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including the nervousness behind Democrats' cautious optimism before the potential weekend health care reform vote in the House.

	March 19, 2010 Democrats Strike Optimistic Tone Ahead of House Vote on Reform House Democrats are taking final headcounts on health care reform in the run-up to a possible Sunday vote, as President Barack Obama rallied public support at a Virginia university on Friday. Kwame Holman reports.

	March 19, 2010 Chart: Compare the House, Senate and Reconciliation Bills House Democrats have unveiled a package of amendments to the Senate version of health care reform legislation, aimed at bringing the Senate bill closer to the version the House passed last November. Compare the three bills.

	March 19, 2010 As Health Vote Nears, Obama Continues Public Push for Reform President Obama delivered Friday an impassioned closing argument for health care reform, telling a crowd in suburban Virginia that "the insurance industry will continue to run amok" if legislation is defeated.

	March 19, 2010 Gwen's Take: Health Care Deadlines, Schmedlines... We enter another weekend with yet another health care deadline hanging low on Washington's horizon. It will be neither the first nor the last time that gauntlets have been thrown down.

	March 19, 2010 Friday: Health Care Vote Likely Sunday; Diplomats Condemn Israeli Settlement March Madness is in full swing this weekend, but a true buzzer beater might be on the House floor Sunday, when what is likely the Democrats' last best chance to pass health care reform comes to a vote. Friday will be a day of heavy lobbying by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

	March 18, 2010 Democrats, GOP Prep for Possible Weekend Vote on Health Reform House Democrats are preparing for a vote on health care legislation, after the Congressional Budget Office reported the bill will cost $940 billion but would cut more than expected from the deficit. Jeffrey Brown talks to two health and policy experts about the cost of the legislation.

	March 18, 2010 Preview: Peru Profits From Resources, Geography Ray Suarez recently traveled to Peru for a series of reports that will examine the country's health issues as well its economy -- including its evolution from a widely erratic marketplace to a more stable economy that encourages private investment and new trade partnerships.

	March 18, 2010 CBO: $940 Billion Health Care Bill Would Trim Deficit Over Next Decade 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 population, according to an estimate released Thursday by the Congressional Budget Office.

	March 18, 2010 Thursday: Democrats Say Health Bill Will Cut Deficit; Vote Might Be Sunday Thursday may be the day House Democratic leaders unveil the fixes they are seeking to the Senate health care bill, setting up a vote on the legislation as early Sunday.

	March 17, 2010 Democrats Pressure Holdouts as Health Reform Vote Looms At least one formerly opposed Democrat, Ohio's Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has said he will vote in favor of the health care reform bill when it comes up for a vote, possibly this week. Judy Woodruff talks to a New York Times reporter about whether others will follow suit.

	March 17, 2010 Undecided Democrats Caught in Crossfire of Health Reform Ads As Democratic lawmakers work to push health care legislation over the finish line, millions of dollars are being spent on television ads in the districts of Democratic members who could cast the deciding vote.

	March 17, 2010 Democrats Count Votes, Deal With Health Reform Hurdles 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.

	March 17, 2010 Patchwork Nation: A Tea Party Census The Tea Party movement was in the news again Tuesday as some 1,000 followers came to Washington to oppose Democrats' final effort to pass health care reform.

	March 17, 2010 Wednesday: Lawmakers Debate 'Deem and Pass'; al-Maliki Wants Recount It's Saint Patrick's Day, and President Barack Obama is marking the holiday with a meeting with Ireland's prime minister, a lunch with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and then an interview about health care reform with Fox News.

	March 16, 2010 Political Scramble Intensifies on Health Reform Bill House Democrats continued the hunt for the 216 votes needed to pass the health care reform bill. Gwen Ifill talks to a health care reporter about how lawmakers may maneuver to push the legislation over the finish line.

	March 16, 2010 Politico's Gordon: White House Pulling Out All the Stops to Pass Health Reform Craig Gordon, White House editor for Politico, spoke with us about the possible final week for the health care reform debate as President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rally Democrats to secure final passage of health care reform in the House of Representatives.

	March 16, 2010 Peru: Growth in a Time of Recession Peru was once a stereotypical victim of multiple Latin American diseases. Poorly performing state industries ran up huge losses, driving the state to over-borrow and further weaken an already shaky currency.

	March 16, 2010 Tuesday: Pelosi Makes Push for Vote; Mitchell Postpones Middle East Trip With the House of Representatives inching closer to a historic vote on health care reform, Democratic lawmakers are intensifying their efforts to secure the 216 votes needed in the chamber to pass a bill.

	March 15, 2010 Twisting Arms and Counting Votes: Obama, Democrats Gear Up for Final Reform Push President Barack Obama made the case for health care reform Monday in Ohio, putting muscle behind congressional leadership as they look to secure votes to pass the reform bill. Kwame Holman reports.

	March 15, 2010 Obama Pushes Health Reform in Ohio as Democrats Scramble for 216 Votes 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 case for reform at a rally near Cleveland.

	March 15, 2010 How Obama Tailors Health Care Reform Pitch for Different Audiences This week could make or break the Democratic health reform plan. In hopes of the effort succeeding, President Obama has stepped up his involvement considerably in recent weeks.

	March 15, 2010 Monday: Health Care Reform; Financial Regulation; 'No Child Left Behind' Supporters of a comprehensive health care reform bill are nearing the endgame, as the fate of the legislation may finally be decided this week.

	March 12, 2010 Ground Zero Workers Weigh $657 Million Settlement Offer Thousands of workers who labored at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may be eligible to split up to $657.5 million in settlement money for damage to their health from working in the dust and debris.

	March 12, 2010 Shields, Brooks: Presidency 'At Risk' in Outcome of Health Reform Effort Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including the rift between the White House and the Supreme Court over President Obama's State of the Union and the ongoing negotiations to pass health care.

	March 12, 2010 News Wrap: 9/11 Rescue Workers Offered Settlement In other news Friday, thousands of emergency personnel who suffered health problems because of their work following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are considering a settlement offer, and the president has delayed his Asia trip to urge lawmakers to finalize health reform legislation.

	March 12, 2010 FDA Adds Black-Box Warning to Plavix The Food and Drug Administration has issued its strictest safety warning for the anti-clotting medication Plavix after determining the popular blood thinner may leave some patients at risk for heart attack or stroke.

	March 12, 2010 Prof. Offers Left a Guide to 'Answer Back' Professor David Coates thinks today's liberals need a guidebook on how to fight conservative arguments. So he wrote one for them.

	March 12, 2010 Obama to Delay International Trip for Final Health Reform Push 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.

	March 11, 2010 Democrats Inch Health Care Reform Negotiations Forward House and Senate Democrats moved a step closer to final agreement on health care legislation with hours of closed-door negations Thursday. Jim Lehrer talks to NPR reporter Julie Rovner about the price tag and the hurdles facing the bill.

	March 11, 2010 Dodd to Unveil Financial Reform Without GOP Support At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Sen. Chris Dodd denied that the political ramifications of reconciliation being used in the health care debate motivated him to push a financial reform bill forward without GOP support.

	March 11, 2010 Thursday: House Finalizing Health Care Deal; Early Election Results From Iraq House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is meeting with fellow Democrats Thursday morning to outline key elements of a final health care reform package.

	March 10, 2010 White House Pushes Insurers to Cooperate on Reforms The Obama administration is continuing to pressure the health insurance industry for cooperation as it tries to pass health care reform. Jim Lehrer gets two views on the health reform debate from the insurance industry and a leading reform advocate.

	March 10, 2010 President Obama Calls for New Program to Fight Medicare and Medicaid Fraud 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 garnered bipartisan support at the his health care reform summit last month.

	March 10, 2010 Wednesday: Obama Pitches Health Care; Settlement 'Undermines' Peace Talks President Barack Obama takes his push for health care reform back on the road Wednesday, as he looks to rally lawmakers to act on legislation before he leaves for an overseas trip March 18.

	March 9, 2010 Politico Editor: Pelosi Faces Tough Task on Health Reform Vote Politico Deputy Managing Editor Tim Grieve spoke with me Tuesday about House Speaker's Nancy Pelosi's tough task of getting enough House Democrats to again vote for politically controversial health care reform legislation.

	March 8, 2010 Obama Targets Insurers in Health Reform Push During a Monday appearance in Philadelphia, President Barack Obama took on insurance companies and struck back at Republicans in a bid to propel his health reform proposal forward. Ray Suarez talks to two health policy experts.

	March 8, 2010 Ray Suarez: Peru Making Gains Despite Global Economic Crisis Just back from a reporting trip to Peru, Ray Suarez sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to share his observations of the South American country, which is experiencing economic growth despite the global recession.

	March 5, 2010 Friday's Headlines: Jobless Rate Holds at 9.7%; Obama Presses for Health Bill The U.S. unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.7 percent in February, as employers cut a smaller than expected 36,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday. The report also revised job loss figures for December and January to show 35,000 fewer jobs lost than previously reported.

	March 4, 2010 Food Center in Sudan NewsHour producer Nicole See describes a visit to a Doctors Without Borders field hospital in a remote part of south Sudan.

	March 4, 2010 Children in Sudan Rely on Field Hospital for Food In February, NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro and producer Nicole See visited a Doctors Without Borders hospital in a remote part of southern Sudan, where patients often walk for miles to get treatment.

	March 4, 2010 Thursday's Headlines: Bombings in Iraq; Parties Weigh Health Care Reconciliation A series of blasts targeting voters in Baghdad killed 17 people Thursday, as many Iraqis cast early ballots ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections.

	March 3, 2010 Obama Directs Congress to Finish Health Care Reform As President Obama pushed for Congress to complete health care reform legislation in the next few weeks, Jim Lehrer talks to Washington Post reporter Ceci Connolly and political analyst Norm Ornstein about the tactics Democrats might use to try to pass their reform plans without Republican support.

	March 3, 2010 GOP Prepares for Senate Rule Battle on Health Reform President Obama said Wednesday he wants a final up or down vote on health care reform, and Democratic leaders say they are ready to push the measure through without bipartisan support if necessary. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	March 3, 2010 Obama Tells Congress to 'Finish Its Work' on Health Reform 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.

	March 3, 2010 Understand the New Prostate Cancer Guidelines Before Your Next Dr. Visit "Talk to your doctor." It's a phrase ingrained in our brains at the end of every pharmaceutical advertisement on television. But on Wednesday, the American Cancer Society said men considering getting tested for prostate cancer should talk to their doctors because perhaps they don't need to be.

	March 3, 2010 Wednesday's Headlines: Obama to Outline Health Care Plan, Ask for Vote President Barack Obama will outline his plan to move ahead on health reform legislation in a speech Wednesday afternoon and is expected to call for an up-or-down vote on an overhaul package.

	March 2, 2010 Obama Signals Openness to GOP Reform Proposals President Obama said Tuesday that he would consider incorporating four Republican ideas for health care reform into the Democrats' legislation.

	March 2, 2010 Politico Reporter: President Will Say 'I Want My Vote' on Health Care Reform President Obama is expected to announce his preferred way forward on health care reform Wednesday.

	March 1, 2010 Obama's Health Care Summit: Your Questions Answered 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.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 26, 2010 Shields, Brooks Consider Reconciliation's Future Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks sort through the top political stories of the past week, including President Obama's health reform summit and how the political parties are weighing potential gains and drawbacks from Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass reform.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Could Budget Reconciliation Buoy Health Reform? As Democrats prepare to move ahead with health reform, Kwame Holman offers a primer on how they may use Senate rules to advance the legislation without Republican support.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Health Reform's Next Step: 23rd Use of Reconciliation? As Democrats weigh the next steps for health reform on the heels of a bipartisan summit on the stalled legislation, one option under discussion is a rarely used Senate procedure known as reconciliation.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Health Care Reform: The Highlight Reel It's been a long year of contentious congressional negotiations, raucous town hall meetings and battle lines being drawn over President Obama's push for health care reform.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Reporter: Deep Divisions Remain After Health Reform Summit In the wake of President Obama's marathon health care reform summit on Thursday, we spoke with Kaiser Health News reporter Mary Agnes Carey about what comes next in the overhaul push.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Lima Women Find Opportunity in Knitting Circle Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit.

	Feb. 26, 2010 Friday's Headlines: 17 Killed in Kabul; Mixed Reaction to Health Summit One day after the Afghan government raised its flag in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, militants killed at least 17 people in a series of attacks in Kabul.

	Feb. 25, 2010 After Obama's Summit, Any Minds or Votes Changed? President Barack Obama clashed with Republicans over the merits of health care reform legislation during a televised summit Thursday. Judy Woodruff talks to health and policy reporters about whether the summit will move health legislation forward.

	Feb. 25, 2010 At Long-Awaited Summit, Parties Clash Over Health Reform President Barack Obama convened a televised summit on health care reform legislation Thursday. Judy Woodruff reports.

	Feb. 25, 2010 Ask Experts Your Questions on the Health Care Summit We asked our panel of experts to weigh in with their reactions to Thursday's summit on health care.

	Feb. 25, 2010 Live-blogging the Health Care Summit The Rundown is following President Obama's bipartisan health care reform summit Thursday and offering updates and insights from the NewsHour news desk and correspondent Judy Woodruff, as well as commentary and opinion from three analysts, throughout the event.

	Feb. 25, 2010 Reactions to #HCRSummit Around the Web Did the health reform summit change minds? It's still hard to say.

	Feb. 25, 2010 All Eyes Are on the White House as Health Care Summit Kicks Off A reasoned discussion, a boxing bout, a pro wrestling match, reality TV. Thursday's bipartisan health care reform talks are being called all of these things. Call it what you want, but one thing is for sure: The stakes are high for leaders from both political parties.

	Feb. 24, 2010 Health Care Models Bubble up in Local Communities On Thursday, President Barack Obama will try to jumpstart his health care reform push at a bipartisan White House health care summit.

	Feb. 23, 2010 Politico Reporter: Obama, GOP Set to 'Out-Reasonable' Each Other Ahead of this Thursday's bipartisan health care reform summit convened by President Obama, we spoke with Politico reporter Craig Gordon about the president's new health reform proposals, how Democrats will try to sell his plan and whether there's any room for common ground on reform between Democrats and Republicans.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Obama Pitches Insurance Rate Agency in Run-up to Summit Days before a bipartisan health care summit convenes, the White House unveiled a revised health care proposal Monday featuring a new insurance rate agency. Judy Woodruff sits down with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., to discuss the possible outcome of the summit and of the reforms.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Dissecting President Obama's Health Care Reform Wish List After President Obama rolled out his health care reform plan on Monday, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser stopped by The Rundown to talk about what specific changes he's seeking in the lead-up to Thursday's bipartisan health reform summit.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Is Bipartisan Health Care Reform Possible? As President Barack Obama's Thursday health reform summit approaches, four analysts weigh in on whether a bipartisan reform bill is possible in the current political climate and what such a bill might include.

	Feb. 22, 2010 White House Unveils New Health Care Proposal In an "opening bid" leading to this week's health reform summit, President Obama released his own version Monday morning of a health reform proposal that he hopes to pass later this spring.

	Feb. 22, 2010 Monday's Headlines: Health Care Plans; Afghan Civilians Killed; Toyota Hearing The Obama administration on Monday is set to outline a package of proposals aimed at salvaging the stalled health care reform effort, including a measure that would provide the federal government new powers to block excessive hikes in insurance premiums.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Recession Fuels More Enrollees, Financial Troubles for State Medicaid Since its founding in 1965, Medicaid has served as a health insurance safety net for people living at or below the federal poverty level: the nation's poorest children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and senior citizens with low incomes living in nursing homes.

	Feb. 19, 2010 Personalized Genetic Test Offers New Way to Track Cancer By mapping the genetic code of malignant tumors, researchers have developed a new technique to identify and track cancer: a blood test derived from a patient's unique DNA.

	Feb. 18, 2010 U.N. Under-Secretary General Updates Needs in Haiti Nearly 600,000 people are still without shelter as the rains begin to fall in Port-au-Prince. Ray Suarez speaks to Under-Secretary General John Holmes of the United Nations about Haiti's long journey of rebuilding ahead and the state of the relief effort.

	Feb. 18, 2010 Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world.

	Feb. 18, 2010 News Wrap: Texas Plane Crash Being Investigated In other news, a small plane that crashed into a building in Austin, Texas, is being investigated as a possible suicide attack. Also, NATO forces continued their fight against the Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan with growing concern over sniper fire and in Pakistan, at least 29 people were killed in a mosque bombing.

	Feb. 18, 2010 Sebelius: Insurance Rate Hikes Justify Health Care Reform Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius unveiled a new government report Thursday that warned of a double-digit spike in health insurance premiums.

	Feb. 17, 2010 Economic Cost of Haiti Quake Could Hit $14 Billion Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank.

	Feb. 15, 2010 Health Reform Advocates Target Insurance Rate Hikes Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced they will delay premium hikes for consumers in California's individual insurance market, but reform advocates hope the backlash over the proposed 39 percent rate hike will push Congress to take action? Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	Feb. 15, 2010 Cancer Doctor: Future of Treatment is Personalized Medicine Dr. John Mendelsohn, president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, says that when he was born, only a third of cancer patients lived five years or more. Now, two-thirds live that long.

	Feb. 12, 2010 Aid Groups Hope Showers, Latrines Stop Disease Preventing the spread of disease in Haiti's quake-damaged cities, where thousands have taken refuge in temporary camps, is a formidable task in a country that already posed sanitation challenges. William Fellows, UNICEF's global water, sanitation and hygiene coordinator, explains.

	Feb. 12, 2010 Patchwork Nation: County Obesity Rates Show Hard Work Ahead Every first lady takes on a mission during her time in the White House, and Michelle Obama this week said that hers would be childhood obesity with the program "Let's Move."

	Feb. 11, 2010 Pressure Mounts on Anthem Blue Cross to Explain Rate Hike Proposal 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.

	Feb. 11, 2010 Former President Clinton Hospitalized, Undergoes Heart Procedure Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized Thursday in New York after complaining about chest pain.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Psychiatrists Propose Revisions to Diagnosis Manual Health experts are taking a fresh look at how some mental illnesses are diagnosed. Planned revisions to the field of psychiatry's primary manual would be the first in a decade.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Psychiatrists to Revise Mental Illness Manual 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, diagnose and treat mental illness.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Olympic Athletes, Fans Offered H1N1 Vaccination by Host B.C. British Columbia is offering an interesting gift to athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Vancouver-- a free H1N1 shot.

	Feb. 10, 2010 Two Hours in Haiti: Relief Flights Held to Rapid Pace For weeks following the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, a steady stream of airplanes stuffed with medical and other relief supplies shuttled in and out of the Port-au-Prince airport.

	Feb. 9, 2010 Excerpts: Michelle Obama on Why She Chose Childhood Obesity as Her Major Project First lady Michelle Obama launched a nationwide campaign Tuesday to fight childhood obesity, part of her effort to encourage healthier habits and exercise in America's young people.

	Feb. 9, 2010 Michelle Obama: Team Effort Needed to Halt Childhood Obesity In an interview with Jim Lehrer, first lady Michelle Obama said it's critically important for the future of the country to bring childhood obesity under control and encourage more physical fitness.

	Feb. 9, 2010 First Lady Kicks Off Campaign Against Childhood Obesity Michelle Obama launched a new program Tuesday aimed at eliminating childhood obesity within one generation. The "Let's Move" initiative, which seeks to reshape childhood eating and exercise habits, marks her first major public policy effort as first lady.

	Feb. 9, 2010 Politico Reporter: Obama Seeking Visual Proof of Bipartisan Efforts President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would be open to starting over on health care reform and incorporating ideas from the Republican minority -- as long as the final bill fulfills his goals of extending coverage, ending insurance company abuses and lowering costs.

	Feb. 8, 2010 'Checklist Manifesto' Author Pairs Simplicity With Lifesaving Could the straightforward checklists used by airline pilots also help save lives in the operating room? Dr. Atul Gawande's book, "The Checklist Manifesto," examines how lists can reduce risk in the medical field and beyond.

	Feb. 8, 2010 In Haiti, Recovery Hinges on Fixing Government Nearly a month after the earthquake in Haiti, the government in Port-au-Prince remains tattered. Ray Suarez takes a closer look at the state of Haiti's government and what it means for rebuilding efforts.

	Feb. 8, 2010 Aid Groups in Haiti Launch Massive Vaccination Effort With conditions on the ground ripe for a disease outbreak, aid groups in Haiti have launched a campaign to vaccinate more than 100,000 people against measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Emma Murphy of ITN reports.

	Feb. 8, 2010 Surgical Checklist Saves Lives, Dr. Atul Gawande's Research Shows 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.

	Feb. 8, 2010 Monday's Headlines: Obama to Host Bipartisan Health Care Reform Talks President Barack Obama has invited Republican and Democratic leaders to the White House to discuss health care legislation later this month.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Health Care Spending Continued Climb in 2009 Health care spending grew to 17 percent of the U.S. economy last year. Betty Ann Bowser examines the impact of the figures amid questions on the future of a legislative reform push.

	Feb. 5, 2010 Health Care Costs Rise as Reform Remains in Standstill 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.

	Feb. 4, 2010 New York Times Reporter Assesses Vaccine Study's Retraction In the wake of The Lancet medical journal fully retracting its 1998 study suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, we spoke with New York Times public health reporter Gardiner Harris for some perspective on the significance.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Haiti Looks to Rebuild Shattered Government Haiti's leaders are turning toward rebuilding its shattered government as earthquake recovery continues. Ray Suarez reports.

	Feb. 4, 2010 News Wrap: Stocks Plunge Ahead of January Jobs Report In other news Thursday, stocks fell across the board on fears over the January unemployment report out Friday, and Senate Democrats announced plans to pass a jobs bill as early as next week.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Health Spending Sees Record Jump as Government Share of Spending Increases 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.

	Feb. 4, 2010 Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link This week, the British medical journal the Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that helped set off the debate over the safety of vaccines and whether they may be connected to later diagnoses of autism in children.

	Feb. 3, 2010 House May Take Up Slice of Health Reform; Larger Bill's Fate Still Unclear The House of Representatives may vote next week on a bill to remove the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption.

	Feb. 3, 2010 Haiti Scrambles to Find Shelter for Quake Survivors Haiti's heavy spring rains are getting closer, but as Ray Suarez reports, millions of earthquake survivors are still living in Port-au-Prince under rigged up tarps and bedsheets.

	Feb. 3, 2010 Extended Interviews: 'Theater of War' A dramatic performance project called "Theater of War" uses ancient Greek tragedies for a very special goal: To link ancient and modern warriors in an understanding of war's pain and mental agony.

	Feb. 2, 2010 Haiti's Quake Leaves Behind a Generation of Child Amputees In the wake of last month's horrifying earthquake, Port-au-Prince's hospitals are packed full of children with missing limbs. Emma Murphy of Independent Television News reports.

	Feb. 1, 2010 In the Weeds: Regulations Lag as Medical Marijuana Grows Medical marijuana is booming in Colorado. In Denver alone, there are more dispensaries legally selling the drug than there are Starbucks. But as medical marijuana use expands, regulation has struggled to keep pace.



	JANUARY Jan. 29, 2010 Gates Pledges $10 Billion for Vaccines 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.

	Jan. 28, 2010 Pelosi: Health Care Reform Will Advance 'On Many Fronts' 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.

	Jan. 27, 2010 Two Weeks On, Most Haitians Still Lack Basics Two weeks into the recovery effort in Haiti, thousands of survivors are still struggling to simply exist. Ray Suarez speaks with Margaret Warner from Haiti about the uneven relief effort.

	Jan. 26, 2010 On Eve of State of the Union, Democrats' Next Move on Health Reform Unclear The State of the Union address was supposed to be a moment of triumph for President Obama. But last week's election of Republican Scott Brown to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat has thrown ice water on the prospect of passing the President's top legislative initiative.

	Jan. 26, 2010 The NewsHour in Haiti The PBS NewsHour has a team on the ground in Haiti reporting on the country's next steps in caring for its wounded and homeless, after January's devastating quake. Producer Joanne Elgart Jennings shares her observations from the field.

	Jan. 25, 2010 Ray Suarez: Haiti's Injured Make Their Way to Cange What constitutes good news in the midst of a tragedy like Haiti's? Today the NewsHour team headed out to Haiti's massive central plateau to see an operation that has stretched its modest resources to fit an oversized disaster.

	Jan. 25, 2010 Conference Looks to Future of Haiti Reconstruction Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive sought international commitments to aid his country in recovery from this month's devastating earthquake, saying it would take at least 5 to 10 years of reconstruction efforts.

	Jan. 24, 2010 Ray Suarez: Scenes of Loss and Resilience in Haiti Ray Suarez and a team from the NewsHour are in Port-au-Prince, reporting on the aftermath of an earthquake that has ravaged the Haitian captial and turned the eyes of the world back to the story of Haiti's larger struggle for survival.

	Jan. 22, 2010 In Ohio, Obama Pushes Jobs Plan and Health Care At a townhall-style event outside Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, President Barack Obama admitted that his agenda, including the health care reform effort, had hit "a little bit of a buzz saw," but he vowed to keep pushing for a health care bill to pass Congress and to continue efforts focused on job growth.

	Jan. 22, 2010 Scaled-Back Health Reform: Is It Possible, Would It Work? Democrats in Congress are considering trying to pass a scaled-back version of health care reform in the wake of Republican Scott Brown's upset Senate victory in Massachusetts Tuesday. Health care analysts and advocates weigh in on the options.

	Jan. 21, 2010 News Wrap: Senate's Reform Bill Won't Pass House, Warns Pelosi In other news, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that the Senate health care bill is unlikely to succeed in the House unless significantly altered, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Internet companies to resist censorship worldwide.

	Jan. 21, 2010 Pelosi Says Senate Reform Bill Won't Pass House as Written 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.

	Jan. 20, 2010 'Comfort' Hospital Ship Arrives to Bolster Haiti Response Relief efforts were ramped up today in Haiti with the arrival of the U.S. Navy hospital ship "Comfort," which is equipped with 550 medical staff. Margaret Warner speaks with NPR reporter Jason Beaubien for the latest on the relief efforts in the Port-au-Prince area.

	Jan. 20, 2010 Aftershock Renews Fears For Haiti Quake Survivors Jon Snow of Independent Television News looks at the ongoing relief efforts in Port-au-Prince and the suffering endured by thousands of victims fighting to survive.

	Jan. 20, 2010 Aftershock Rattles Haiti One Week After Quake A powerful 6.0 aftershock rippled through Haiti as victims continue to be rescued and aid workers struggle to aid survivors of last week's earthquake.

	Jan. 20, 2010 Democrats Conflicted on Next Steps for Reform 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.

	Jan. 19, 2010 Pelosi: Health Reform Talks 'On Track' as Democrats Eye Mass. Race 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 crucial 60th vote for reform in the Senate.

	Jan. 18, 2010 Democrats Consider Backup Plan for Health Reform as Mass. Race Remains Tight As the Massachusetts Senate race remains tight, Democrats have been discussing their "plan B" -- looking for a way to pass health reform legislation with only 59 Democratic votes in the Senate.

	Jan. 15, 2010 NewsHour Coverage of Haiti, On-air and Online Find NewsHour broadcast and online coverage of the earthquake diaster in Haiti.

	Jan. 15, 2010 Health Care Reform Could Hinge on Close Mass. Senate Race Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post spoke with Hari Sreenivasan about the special election in Massachusetts to fill the U.S. Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. Democrats are scrambling amid fears that a Republican pickup could allow the party to stop health care reform.

	Jan. 15, 2010 Democrats Say Health Reform Compromise Is Near Democratic lawmakers headed back to the White House Friday afternoon for another round of negotiations on health care reform. NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser discusses the week's developments.

	Jan. 14, 2010 News Wrap: Deal Reached on Taxing 'Cadillac' Plans In other news, President Obama and union leaders reached an agreement on taxing high-cost health care plans, and a suicide bomber killed 20 people in Afghanistan.

	Jan. 14, 2010 White House, Unions Reach Tentative Deal on 'Cadillac' Tax 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.

	Jan. 14, 2010 Hours From Epicenter, 'Secondary Stresses' for Haitian Hospital We received an e-mail Wednesday from Ian Rawson, managing director of Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti -- a 100-bed referral hospital in central Haiti's Artibonite Valley three hours north of Port-au-Prince -- about what he was witnessing.

	Jan. 14, 2010 Haiti at Risk for Disease Outbreaks Treating the injured is still the first priority in Port au Prince, but experts are raising the alarm about the urgent need to address other health issues before it's too late.

	Jan. 11, 2010 Despite Years of Crushing Poverty, Hope Grows in Haiti In the next installment of a series on fragile states, special correspondent Kira Kay reports on Haiti's struggle to overcome years of political turmoil and severe poverty.

	Jan. 11, 2010 Democrats Wrangle Over Taxing 'Cadillac' Insurance Plans Gwen Ifill speaks with economists about the ongoing debate over taxing so-called "Cadillac" health care insurance plans.

	Jan. 11, 2010 Tax on Cadillac Plans: Necessary Cost-control or Unfair Burden? Questions and answers about the "Cadillac" health insurance tax, including who would pay it and which plans would be affected.

	Jan. 8, 2010 Shields and Brooks on Televising Health Care Talks, Obama Lobbying Rules In this edition of The Rundown with Mark and David, columnists Mark Shields and David Shields discuss C-SPAN's push to have Congress' final health reform bill negotiations be televised and the balance of power between lobbyists and congressional staffers.

	Jan. 7, 2010 With H1N1 Vaccine Now Abundant, Flu Fears Ease With the H1N1 vaccine no longer in short supply, the crowds that once lined clinics nationwide are now gone. But has the rush to get vaccinated slowed too soon? Ray Suarez reports.

	Jan. 7, 2010 Abortion, 'Cadillac' Tax Remain Sticking Points in Health Reform Negotiations The House and Senate began negotiations this week to iron out the differences between their versions of health care reform. NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner discusses the state of the negotiations.

	Jan. 7, 2010 EPA Proposes Stricter Smog Limits The Environmental Protection Agency proposed stricter new limits on smog Thursday that could have big health benefits, but could also cost up to $90 billion for corporations and the government to implement.

	Jan. 7, 2010 H1N1 Vaccine Reaching Poorer Nations as Flu Fears Continue to Wane Developing nations will begin receiving donated H1N1 vaccine Thursday, just as the U.S. shortage is waning and some European nations find themselves with more vaccine than they can handle.

	Jan. 6, 2010 An Interview With Francesco Clark of 'This Emotional Life' Seven and a half years ago, Francesco Clark survived a tragic swimming pool accident that severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed. While it took him a long time to overcome a deep depression, he is getting stronger by the day.

	Jan. 5, 2010 Health Reform Talks Resume; Dems to Bypass Formal Conference 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.

	Jan. 1, 2010 Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight with Free Surgeries Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics that subsidizes sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients and provides top-of-the-line care for patients who can pay.

	Jan. 1, 2010 Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight With Free Surgeries A second look at a Fred de Sam Lazaro report from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics, the largest such system in the world.