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	2011 DECEMBER Dec. 23, 2011 Army's Mental Resilience Program: Your Questions Answered Viewers submitted many questions about our report on the largest psychological program in the Army's history. Col. Marsha Lilly of the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Public Affairs Office and critic Bryant Welch, a psychotherapist, answer some below.

	Dec. 23, 2011 If It's Not a War on Cancer, What Is It? On this 40th Anniversary of the "War on Cancer," many are questioning the old metaphor.

	Dec. 22, 2011 Fearing Bioterrorism, Government Panel Asks: What Research Should Be Secret? How much research about the deadly bird flu virus should be available to the public? Ray Suarez discusses the question that many in the science, bioterrorism and national security fields are considering with Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Bruce Alberts of the journal Science.

	Dec. 22, 2011 If It's Not a War on Cancer, What Is It? It was President Nixon's "Christmas gift to the nation." On Dec. 23, 1971, he faced the television cameras in the East Room of the White House and declared "total national commitment" to finding a cure for cancer and the funds -- "whatever is necessary" -- for the "conquest" of the disease. What he didn't call it was a "war."

	Dec. 21, 2011 An Imam with an HIV Prevention Mission Imam Mohamed Ziani talks about HIV prevention at his mosque and teaches other imams how to do the same in their communities.

	Dec. 19, 2011 California Hospital Chain Eyed for Possibly Bilking Medicare for Millions Americans spends more than $500 billion every year on Medicare, and as the cost of health care rises, many are examining how that money is spent. NewsHour's partner The Center for Investigative Reporting conducted a year-long probe into one prominent hospital chain's bills to Medicare. California Watch's Lance Williams reports.

	Dec. 15, 2011 Spare Parts for Humans: Tissue Engineers Aim for Lab-Grown Limbs, Lungs and More A new research breakthrough has enabled scientists to grow human tissue to repair or replace organs, and someday, maybe even limbs. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports.

	Dec. 14, 2011 Army Program Aims to Build Troops' Mental Resilience to Stress In 2009, the Army launched a program designed to help the country's 1.4 million people in uniform cope after tours in Iraq or Afghanistan. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the goals of the $140 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness initiative, and the controversy it has created.

	Dec. 14, 2011 Submit Questions About New Army Mental Resilience Program On Wednesday's NewsHour, Betty Ann Bowser profiles the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, which was launched in 2009 with the intent of boosting the mental toughness of every man and woman in uniform.

	Dec. 12, 2011 The Army's Newest Drill: Building Mental and Emotional Resilience The program -- the largest of its kind in the Army's history -- was launched in 2009 with the intent of boosting the mental toughness of every man and woman in uniform. Army officials hope to reverse the number of troops suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and, all too often, suicide.

	Dec. 7, 2011 'A Big Surprise' as Sebelius Nixes Plan B for Young Girls Without Prescription In a very public disagreement Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blocked the Food and Drug Administration from allowing girls under 17 to buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription. Jeffrey Brown discusses the controversy with Rob Stein of The Washington Post.

	Dec. 7, 2011 Plan B to Remain Off-Limits to Many Teens The Food and Drug Administration was preparing to announce Wednesday that it would lift the age restriction requiring teens under 17 to have a prescription for the drug. But at the last minute, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled the decision.

	Dec. 6, 2011 Death of NHL 'Enforcer' Boogaard Puts Spotlight on Repeated Head Trauma Brain research done after the death of Derek Boogaard, a National Hockey League brawler who was just 28, found that he had a degenerative condition similar to Alzheimer's caused by repeated head trauma. Jeffrey Brown speaks with The New York Times' John Branch and Dr. Robert Cantu for more on the issues raised by the death.

	Dec. 6, 2011 Possible Compromise on Labeling of Combat-Related PTSD Some Army officers and mental health advocates have been calling for a change in the "PTSD" moniker on the basis that calling it a "disorder" is stigmatizing soldiers and preventing them from getting the help they need.

	Dec. 5, 2011 Surge of Young Nurses Could Help Reverse Shortage According to a report published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, young registered nurses are now entering the workforce at a rate not seen since the 1970s. So what does that mean for an aging U.S. population that will need health care?

	Dec. 2, 2011 Study: Few Healthy Food Choices At Calif. Children's Hospitals Researchers with the UCLA School of Medicine and RAND Corporation visited the state's 14 major children's hospitals last year and found many less-than-ideal food options. According to their study published Thursday in Academic Pediatrics, only 7 percent of hospital entrees were deemed healthy.

	Dec. 1, 2011 When Will We See an AIDS-Free Generation? On World AIDS Day, President Obama pledged Thursday to provide HIV treatment for millions more around the world. Jeffrey Brown discusses the state of the epidemic with U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, clinic director Dr. Patricia Nkansah-Asamoah and David Ernesto Munar of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

	Dec. 1, 2011 Obama Pledges More Support for HIV Treatment President Obama marked World AIDS Day Thursday by pledging a stepped-up effort to reach more victims of the pandemic that began 30 years ago and has since infected an estimated 66 million people worldwide. Jeffrey Brown reports.

	Dec. 1, 2011 For HIV Advocates, 'Unprecedented' Moment Collides with Fiscal Worries As the United States marks World AIDS Day, the mixture of hope and uncertainty is particularly potent for patients: At the very moment it seems the technology and know-how may finally be in place to bring about a virtual end to the epidemic in the U.S., advocates say their funding base has never been more uncertain.

	Dec. 1, 2011 An Illustrated History of AIDS The colorful posters have graced walls and subways in London, New York, and Paris. But they weren't ads for the latest haute couture -- they were all once part of public health campaigns aimed at raising awareness of AIDS. Dr. Edward Atwater, 85, began collecting the posters more than two decades ago.



	NOVEMBER Nov. 30, 2011 As Lipitor's Patent Expires, Is Era of 'Blockbuster Drugs' Over? After 14 years on the market, the most profitable prescription drug in history, Lipitor, is going generic as patients, doctors and the pharmaceutical industry wait to see what will happen. Margaret Warner discusses the implications with Dr. Jerry Avorn of Harvard Medical School.

	Nov. 25, 2011 Why Does Health Care Cost So Much in the United States? Staying healthy in the United States is expensive. In fact, in 2009, the average annual cost of healthcare was $7,960 per person -- two and a half times what it was in Japan for the same year. A new OECD comparing health care costs in 34 countries provides some surprising data about disparities in the cost of health care.

	Nov. 24, 2011 What's on the Menu in School Cafeterias? Lawmakers recently weighed in on what's in school lunches, a battle that attracted a great deal of attention from the food industry. Judy Woodruff reports.

	Nov. 23, 2011 Why Medicare Chief Don Berwick Was Destined to Step Down Dr. Donald Berwick, the man who has been both praised and reviled as the country's Medicare chief, will step down from his job on December 2nd. The White House announced that Marilyn Tavenner, Berwick's principal deputy and formerly Virginia's top health official, to suceed him.

	Nov. 23, 2011 From Lincoln to Obama: The White House Celebrates Thanksgiving A meal shared by Pilgrims and American Indians might get most of the credit for the creation of Thanksgiving, but it was Abraham Lincoln who officially proclaimed the last Thursday in November a holiday, back in 1864. This slide show documents some of the highlights of the presidents' Thanksgiving celebrations.

	Nov. 23, 2011 Does Eating Turkey Actually Make Us Sleepy? Is turkey the sole culprit behind our drowsy spells after Thanksgiving dinner? Or are other side dishes in on the act, too? We turn to Dr. Howard Markel of the University of Michigan for some answers ahead of this year's holiday meal.

	Nov. 21, 2011 As Supercommittee Games End, Some Bets on Future of Health Care Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health News gives us her best guesses on how much the health care industry will change in the post-supercommittee world.

	Nov. 18, 2011 FDA Revokes Avastin Approval The Food and Drug Administration officially pulled the plug on its approval for the use of the drug Avastin in breast cancer treatment.

	Nov. 17, 2011 Kids with Toothaches: Lost in the Health Care Debate Somewhat lost in the war of words over health care reform is a stepchild of the debate: dental care. A bad situation is getting worse, especially in California, where Medi-Cal cuts have meant less care for kids.

	Nov. 17, 2011 How Have Medicaid Dental Benefits Changed in Your State? Since 1982, every state has provided health benefits to low-income Americans through Medicaid. But in times of economic stress, the optional Medicaid dental benefits often become a prime target for cost-cutting politicians. The map below illustrates the evolution of state Medicaid dental benefits in the last decade.

	Nov. 16, 2011 Live Chat Friday at 1 p.m. ET: Lack of Dental Care for Americans The lack of access to dental care is a problem that affects millions of Americans, Betty Ann Bowser and the NewsHour's health team are reporting in a series this week. Panelists from the American Dental Association, Alaska's Dental Health Aide Therapist program and Remote Area Medical will participate in a live chat Friday.

	Nov. 16, 2011 Program Brings Dental Care to Remote Alaskans, but Some Dentists Are Skeptical A program to train dental therapists to perform basic care in rural Alaska has been met with both praise and skepticism. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser continues her series of reports on dental costs, coverage and access for Americans.

	Nov. 16, 2011 At Tipping Point of Dental Pain, Mother Makes a Tough Choice A "quick trip" to the dentist usually means a one-hour flight across southern Alaska for Eva Malvich. But that's nothing compared with her other dental adventures. Several weeks ago, the 42-year-old mother of three had to quit her job of 19 years and cash out her retirement savings to pay for a full-scale dental overhaul.

	Nov. 15, 2011 Millions of Americans Face Life Without Dental Care The lack of access to dental care is a problem that affects millions of Americans. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	Nov. 14, 2011 In Alaska, Sesame Chicken With a Side of Perspective Somehow sesame chicken is never going to be quite the same ... and it's all because of Alaska. Trust me.Our health unit recently went there to do a couple of stories, not on the health effects of Chinese food, but on access to dental care in the United States.

	Nov. 14, 2011 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Health Reform Challenge The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law.

	Nov. 11, 2011 Is Top-Dollar Treatment Getting Americans the Best Health Care in the World? The new report from the Commonwealth Fund painted a pretty dismal picture of the American health care industry this week. But if you don't have time to read the whole thing, these four graphics -- based on a poll of more than 18,000 adults in the United States and 10 other high-income countries -- should do the trick.

	Nov. 10, 2011 Bringing Dental Relief for Appalachia's Poorest Grundy, Va., is one of more than 4,600 places in the country currently experiencing an acute dental shortage. So each fall, hundreds of dentists from throughout the state converge on the town for a "Mission of Mercy" for the area's uninsured. In two days, they extracted 900 teeth.

	Nov. 10, 2011 5 Big Questions Before Supreme Court on Health Reform Law The Supreme Court now has six petitions asking the justices to review and answer important constitutional questions about the Obama administration's signature social policy success -- the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

	Nov. 10, 2011 Why Are Medical Costs So High? Paul Solman answer's a readers question about why health care costs so much.

	Nov. 8, 2011 California Raids Threaten Medical Marijuana Regulation In 16 states, marijuana use is legal for medical purposes, but authorities say state laws do not protect growers from federal prosecution. Special correspondent Michael Montgomery of KQED San Francisco looks at how that conflict is playing out in one California community.

	Nov. 8, 2011 A Solution to Rural Alaska's Dental Problems? The need for dental care in rural Alaska is huge. According to a recent CDC report, the rate of cavities among rural Alaska Native children is four and a half times greater than the general population of U.S. children of the same age.

	Nov. 7, 2011 News Wrap: Jury Finds Doctor Guilty in Michael Jackson's Death In other news Monday, a Los Angeles jury found Michael Jackson's doctor guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Dr. Conrad Murray showed little reaction as he was convicted of administering dangerous amounts of the anesthetic propofol then leaving the pop star unattended.

	Nov. 4, 2011 Army General Calls for Changing Name of PTSD Some members of the Army hope that renaming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, as an injury will encourage more soldiers to seek help.

	Nov. 4, 2011 Rewriting the Textbook on Disease Looking at a patient's medical history and genomic information, it may soon be possible to prescribe a tailored treatment plan, recommend ways to avoid kidney failure, blindness and amputation -- even determine if the patient's siblings and children are likely to develop diabetes later in life.

	Nov. 2, 2011 Painkiller 'Epidemic' Deepens in U.S. Doctors prescribed enough pain medication last year to partially numb every American adult around-the-clock for a month.



	OCTOBER Oct. 31, 2011 For Some Patients, Drug Shortage Creates Life-and-Death Situation Across the country, doctors and patients are struggling to get their hands on some essential prescription drugs that are in dangerously short supply. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on President Obama's idea for tackling part of the problem.

	Oct. 31, 2011 Obama Orders FDA to Zero In on Drug Shortage Crisis President Obama called for swift government action Monday against a drug shortage crisis that's increasingly left doctors and hospitals scrambling for life-saving medications -- often including those used in cancer and emergency treatment.

	Oct. 28, 2011 Snapshot: A Day in Toksook Bay, Alaska "It's not the end of the world," David Lefner told us, "but you can see it from here. That was our greeting as we stepped off our flight in Bethel, Alaska. It was our last stop before boarding the tiny charter plane that would take us to Toksook Bay, 115 miles to the west.

	Oct. 27, 2011 Military Photographer: 'The Medic Could Not Get There Fast Enough' Generations of Stacy Pearsall's family have worn uniforms: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. So it probably wasn't much of surprise when she asked her parents to join the Air Force at age 17. She served as a combat photographer. Here, she describes a firefight where she got the final injury that ended her military career.

	Oct. 27, 2011 Toksook Bay, Alaska A collection of photos from The NewsHour's trip to Toksook Bay in October, 2011.

	Oct. 26, 2011 Why Do Some People Live Past 100? Genome May Hold Clues to Longevity Scientists call them supercontrols: people who have lived past 100, and have somehow evaded the age-related diseases most can't escape after a century of life, such as heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's disease. A new research contest is seeking looking for answers in the human genome.

	Oct. 25, 2011 Kids Increasingly Staring at Glowing Screens, Study Finds How much time are our youngest children spending in front of screens? Jeffrey Brown discusses new studies that chronicle the increasing use of digital devices by young children -- and the resulting health effects -- with James Steyer of Common Sense Media and Dr. Ari Brown of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

	Oct. 25, 2011 Boys, Young Men Should Get HPV Vaccine, CDC Panel Says A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel has recommended for the first time that boys and young men get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, known as HPV, to protect them from cancers resulting from sexual activity. Jeffrey Brown discusses the new recommendation with Rob Stein of The Washington Post.

	Oct. 25, 2011 Bath Salts: What You Should Know About Latest DEA-Banned Drug No more picking up "Bliss," "Cloud Nine" or "Hurricane Charlie" at the corner grocery store. The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a temporary ban on U.S. sales of the street drug more generically known as "bath salts."

	Oct. 20, 2011 Patients, Doctors Face Tough Questions Amid Changes in Prostate Cancer Screening There have been plenty of questions and reactions in the medical community since a government panel recommended changing the way men are screened for prostate cancer. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on some of the responses among patients and doctors.

	Oct. 20, 2011 PSA Firestorm: Mammogram Debate, Part 2? Two years ago, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force advised questioned the benefit of routine mammograms for women under 50. And just this month it warned all men to avoid prostate cancer screening. Comparisons are being made, but how far can they be taken?

	Oct. 20, 2011 HHS Releases Final Regulations For ACOs The Obama administration has released its much-awaited final rule for Medicare accountable care organizations, making it easier for doctors and hospitals to participate.

	Oct. 19, 2011 Report: U.S. Health Care Not Improving America's health care system is not getting any better even as it gets more expensive, according to the third comprehensive scorecard issued by the Commonwealth Fund, one of the country's biggest health care foundations.

	Oct. 18, 2011 Vaccine Could Become 'Another Very Powerful Weapon' to Fight Malaria An experimental vaccine against malaria, an oftentimes-deadly disease that half the world is exposed to, is still in trials, but it could be in production by 2015. Jeffrey Brown discusses the potential impact of the vaccine with GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty.

	Oct. 18, 2011 New Vaccine Aims to Take Major Bite out of Malaria's Toll in Africa Scientists are on the cusp of having the world's first vaccine against malaria, a disease that kills nearly 800,000 people each year. Lawrence McGinty of Independent Television News reports.

	Oct. 17, 2011 Cocaine Has a History With Rubber Gloves, Beverages, Freud's Nightmares Dr. Howard Markel's new book, "An Anatomy of Addiction," looks at Dr. Sigmund Freud and Dr. William Halsted's blinding cocaine habit. But it also explores other tidbits from cocaine's history, including how rubber surgical gloves were invented to impress a girl and how Pope Leo XIII carried around a flask of cocaine wine.

	Oct. 17, 2011 Cocaine: How 'Miracle Drug' Nearly Destroyed Sigmund Freud, William Halsted In "An Anatomy of Addiction," medical historian Howard Markel details the cocaine addictions of Sigmund Freud and William Halsted, both medical revolutionaries a century ago. Betty Ann Bowser and Markel discuss what their stories tell us about one of modern medicine's first miracle drugs and the timeless nature of addiction.

	Oct. 17, 2011 PSA Testing Controversy Reignites 'Over-Screening' Debate A week after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force released a draft of its decision to no longer recommend routine PSA screening for seemingly healthy men -- largely because it's not entirely clear whether the test leads to life-saving treatment -- a heated battle over the issue continues to rage within the health care world.

	Oct. 14, 2011 What the Death of the CLASS Act Means for Long-Term Disability Care Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; Getty ImagesThe Obama administration reversed course on a major provision of its landmark health care reform law Friday when Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that the CLASS Act will need to be scrapped.

	Oct. 13, 2011 Search for Alzheimer's Cure Leads Researchers to Colombian Highlands The search for a cure for Alzheimer's disease has taken researchers to a remote region in the Colombian Highlands. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports.

	Oct. 13, 2011 Reconstructing Black Death: Why Was Plague Microbe so Deadly? Researchers announced Wednesday that they've managed to reconstruct the genome of the Black Death, the illness that wiped out around half of Europe's population in just a few years in the mid-1300s. Ray Suarez discusses the developments with geneticist Hendrick Poinar of McMaster University.

	Oct. 13, 2011 Black Death's DNA Decoded Using Teeth From London's 'Plague Pits' An international consortium of researchers announced this week that they've managed to reconstruct the genome of Black Death -- the "great-grandmother" of modern plagues and the same illness that wiped out around half of Europe in just a few years in the mid-1300s.

	Oct. 11, 2011 Academia and Big Pharma Partner to Put New Drugs on the Market Big Pharma and university scientists are hopeful that a wave of new research collaborations between the two will speed up the drug discovery process and help put new drugs on a relatively stagnant market.

	Oct. 10, 2011 In Denver, An Urban Garden Grows Healthier Foods - And Attitudes In a low-income neighborhood in Denver, it used to be impossible to find fresh fruit or vegetables. But Coby Gould and his colleagues hope to give the community healthy, affordable produce options at the Growhaus, a budding urban garden in the neighborhood.

	Oct. 7, 2011 Panel's Pitch to Nix Routine Prostate Cancer Tests Draws Strong Reaction The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said Friday that prostate specific antigen tests, known as PSAs, that are done to detect prostate cancer could be doing more harm than good. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest controversial recommendation from the influential panel with The Washington Post's Rob Stein.

	Oct. 7, 2011 Advisory Panel: Essential Health Benefits Package Must Be Affordable The government moved a step closer Friday toward defining what "essential benefits" would be offered by companies selling coverage to millions of Americans in new insurance exchanges.

	Oct. 5, 2011 Treating the Psychological Scars of Liberia's Conflict After a brutal civil war, an estimated 40 percent of Liberians suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, but mental health is just now becoming a priority in the West African nation.

	Oct. 5, 2011 Text-Messaging for Health Still Has Its Challenges At first glance, text-messaging health alerts to poor, rural populations with widespread mobile phone use is a no-brainer. But what about the challenges of providing useful information and the simple act of re-charging phones in isolated spots?

	Oct. 5, 2011 Memphis Hospital Teams Up With Churches to Deliver Care Two mainstays of the Memphis community -- the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare and nearly 400 local churches -- have teamed up for an innovative program that helps keep church members healthy while reducing health-care costs.

	Oct. 3, 2011 Nobels Honor Immune System Research Paving Way for New Vaccines, Treatments American Bruce Beutler and Luxembourg-born Jules Hoffmann shared this year's Nobel Prize in medicine with Canadian-born Ralph Steinman, who died on Friday, for their discoveries related to the immune system. Jeffrey Brown discusses their work with Dr. Anthony Fauci of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.



	SEPTEMBER Sept. 28, 2011 White House Asks the Supreme Court to Consider Health Reform The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Wednesday to decide whether the president's landmark health care law is constitutional, saying that the Justice Department would appeal the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the federal government cannot mandate that all Americans buy health insurance.

	Sept. 28, 2011 CDC Chief: Source of Deadly Listeria in Contaminated Cantaloupes Still Unknown The Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that at least 13 people have died so far from listeria found in contaminated cantaloupes. Gwen Ifill discusses the deadliest outbreak of foodborne disease in more than a decade with the CDC's director, Dr. Thomas Frieden.

	Sept. 28, 2011 Galveston: The Mother of All U.S. Natural Disasters To this day, Galveston's storm of 1900 stands as the deadliest natural disaster to ever hit the United States. Betty Ann Bowser speaks with Dwayne Jones, executive director of the Galveston Historical Foundation, about the hurricane that will forever be known here as the "Great Storm."

	Sept. 28, 2011 Number of Deaths from Cantaloupe-Linked Listeria Rises Health officials say 13 people across eight states have died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria and at least 72 people in 18 states were sickened.

	Sept. 27, 2011 What's Behind 9% Jump in Employer-Paid Health Insurance Premiums? A survey released Tuesday by The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that annual health insurance premiums for a family of four climbed $15,000 this year. Judy Woodruff discusses what's causing health insurance costs to rise with Susan Dentzer of Health Affairs.

	Sept. 27, 2011 Survey: Health Care Premiums Soar for Many Employees Premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage shot up 9 percent last year. That's significantly more than the average increase in wages, according to a new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Education Trust.

	Sept. 23, 2011 'Contagion' Reality Check: CDC Experts Explore Some of the Film's Scenarios So just how plausible is some of the science represented in "Contagion"? A group of Centers for Disease Control experts helped the NewsHour sort through some of the facts.

	Sept. 22, 2011 Galveston Aims to Build a Healthier City After Ike's Wave of Destruction Three years after Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, Galveston is still rebuilding. But this time area residents want to make the city a healthier place to live. Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	Sept. 22, 2011 The Mixed Blessings of Hurricanes When I became a journalist, I knew firsthand what the word hurricane meant. And that has served me well through many that I have covered. It seems like every time we do a story about one of these terrible and yet awesome events Mother Nature brings, we meet heroic people.

	Sept. 21, 2011 Galveston: Healthier After Disaster? Three years after devastation from Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Tex., officials are determined to build the island back stronger -- and healthier -- than ever before.

	Sept. 21, 2011 Preview: Can Galveston Rebuild Healthier After Disaster? After Hurricane Ike slammed Galveston in 2008, city health officials declared 569 units of public housing - including all of nearby Magnolia Homes - unfit for human occupation. Planners see the ongoing recovery efforts as an opportunity to make the city a poster child for "Building Back Stronger" - and healthier.

	Sept. 20, 2011 Can Food Industry, Governments Work Together to Fight Obesity? Food and beverage companies that make fatty, sugary products tend to not be viewed kindly by public health workers on the front lines, locked in an unending battle with obesity and its related diseases.

	Sept. 20, 2011 How Obama Plans To Cut Health Programs By $320 Billion President Obama proposed $320 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, largely by changing how the federal government pays health providers, slashing payments to drug companies, and dramatically changing the way it splits the costs of Medicaid with the states, according to the White House

	Sept. 16, 2011 How Carefully Do You Choose Your Health Care Provider? If you're like most Americans, you probably didn't take your hospital for a "test spin," you didn't bother with the consumer ratings, and you certainly didn't look beneath the hood to make sure everything's running smoothly.

	Sept. 15, 2011 Walter Reed Closes the Door on an Era After more than a century, the storied Walter Reed Army Medical Center is closing its doors. Patients are being transferred to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland, which will officially become Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

	Sept. 15, 2011 CDC: New Lung Cancer Cases Decline Across U.S. The rates of new lung cancer cases dropped significantly in the United States between 1999 and 2008, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

	Sept. 14, 2011 Domestic Abuse Hidden but Pervasive in China About 64 percent of Chinese adults have experienced violence at home at some point, according to a recent study, but it remains a taboo topic.

	Sept. 13, 2011 Economic Check-Up Dismal for Many U.S. Families American families continued to take an economic pounding in 2010, with median household income declining, health insurance rates remaining dreary and the number of Americans living in poverty reaching a 52-year high, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday.

	Sept. 12, 2011 Insulin Spritz Shows Promise for People With Early Signs of Alzheimer's A small study published Tuesday in the Archives of Neurology found preliminary evidence that spraying critical insulin deep into the nose could help delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Ray Suarez speaks with University of Washington School of Medicine professor Suzanne Craft, who led the study.

	Sept. 12, 2011 Study Shows Insulin Spray Boosts Memory in Alzheimer's Patients Researchers have been exploring the use of an insulin nasal spray for some time, but a new study out Monday provides the best indications yet that such a treatment might provide some hope for helping at least early stage Alzheimer's patients.

	Sept. 12, 2011 Testosterone Plummets When Men Become Fathers, Study Finds Published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that testosterone production drops as males are forced to shift priorities, duties and mindset when they transition into fatherhood.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Remembering the Smell of 9/11 Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reflects on covering the aftermath of 9/11 in New York, remembering peoples' tragic stories of loss and one thing she hasn't been able to shake: the smell.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Appeals Court Throws Out Health Reform Challenge In one of the biggest victories for President Obama's health care reform overhaul, a federal appeals court dismissed two high-profile cases questioning the law's constitutionality.

	Sept. 8, 2011 Health Reform Supporters Fret Over New Rules Publicly, consumer and patient advocates continue to cheer for last year's health care law. But behind the scenes, some worry that they are losing a few key battles to the insurance and business communities.

	Sept. 5, 2011 Discrimination Haunts Pregnant Women with HIV HIV-positive women in Kenya face resistance when they want to become mothers.



	AUGUST Aug. 31, 2011 The Best and Worst Countries for Babies From1990 to 2009, annual newborn deaths decreased from 4.6 million to 3.3 million worldwide. Find out which countries with a population over 1 million performed best and which were the worst.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Brazil's Shifting Views of Church, Abortion and Lifestyle Today, in what remains the world's largest Roman Catholic country, 80 percent of women of childbearing age are on some form of artificial contraception, long forbidden by the Church.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Poll: Many Employees Don't Want Changes In Their Health Insurance Employees love to gripe about rising health care costs, but a new poll finds most are not willing to sacrifice to pay less for their insurance.

	Aug. 30, 2011 Augmented Reality Expands Borders of Tech Landscape Augmented reality software places computer-generated images on top of real world environments, such as a smartphone's camera or a live television broadcast. The technology could shape everything from food safety procedures to crime scene investigation.

	Aug. 29, 2011 Drug Hoarders, Manufacturing Cuts Exacerbate Shortage of Key Medications More than 180 critical drugs are in short supply across the United States. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the factors behind the shortages of key medications that are creating major problems for doctors and patients.

	Aug. 29, 2011 Emergency Departments Struggle With Growing Drug Shortages The number of medications on the Food and Drug Administration's shortage list keeps growing. And while calcium chloride and potassium phosphate aren't drug names the average American would recognize, they're critical to patients visiting the emergency room every day.

	Aug. 29, 2011 Drug Prices Soar as Hospital Suppliers are Forced into 'Gray Market' The gray market is an expanding world fueled by a deepening drug-shortage crisis in which secondary retailers buy up medication outside of the normal, tightly controlled distribution channels to resell at exorbitant mark-ups.

	Aug. 26, 2011 The Anatomy of Coney Island Hospital's Hurricane Evacuation Hurricane Irene sent Coney Island Hospital -- the biggest employer in southern Brooklyn -- scrambling to complete the facility's first full-scale evacuation.

	Aug. 26, 2011 Cars of the Future May Keep Us Safe Behind the Wheel at Any Age The MIT AgeLab's latest creation is the "Aware Car," with $1.5 million dollars worth of medical, computer, camera and robotic equipment which will sense and predict a driver's performance -- and even intervene to prevent accidents.

	Aug. 25, 2011 Obesity Rates Rising Worldwide, Half of U.S. Could Be Obese by 2030 The world is getting fatter, and packing on the pounds is not just for wealthy nations anymore. Obesity is sweeping into low and middle-income countries, reports the World Health Organization's obesity center.

	Aug. 25, 2011 For Legendary Coach Summitt, Next Opponent Is Dementia Diagnosis Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in college basketball history, has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's. Hari Sreenivasan talks to her son Tyler Summitt and The Washington Post's Sally Jenkins about how the coach is coping and staying focused on her team after 37 seasons leading the University of Tennessee's Lady Vols.

	Aug. 24, 2011 Healthy Eating: Good for Your Body, Bad for Your Bottom Line? If you want your dinner plate to come anywhere close to the new MyPlate federal guidelines -- the same ones that toppled the food pyramid earlier this summer -- get ready to fork over some cash in the check-out line, according to a recent report published in the journal Health Affairs.

	Aug. 23, 2011 Doctors, Patients Assess Effectiveness of Medical Marijuana Sixteen states have passed laws that allow patients to use medical marijuana to treat side effects of various illnesses, but now some states are moving to either limit or repeal those laws. Special correspondent Anna Rau of Montana PBS reports on the experiences of patients and doctors.

	Aug. 23, 2011 Foreign Drug Testing Raises Ethical Questions Peek inside any American family's medicine cabinet and you're likely to find a drug that was tested in a foreign country. Pharmaceutical companies have been shifting research overseas for years and the number of foreign trials has skyrocketed.

	Aug. 22, 2011 Brain-Eating Amoeba Lurk in U.S. Lakes. But Should You Worry? Three people have died in recent weeks after attacks from a single-celled organism called Naegleria fowleri. But health experts say infection, while almost always fatal, is extremely rare.

	Aug. 22, 2011 Overtreating Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa In countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa, health workers often treat patients for malaria even when a test indicates the parasite isn't present. The practice worries many health experts.

	Aug. 19, 2011 Study: Black Researchers Receive Fewer NIH Grants A new study by the National Institutes of Health found a disturbing gap between the number of grants awarded to white scientists and those awarded to black scientists.

	Aug. 18, 2011 WHO: Libya Facing Medical Supply Crisis The World Health Organization is rushing to secure medical supplies for Libya now that millions in Gadhafi's government assets can be used for urgent health needs.

	Aug. 17, 2011 Proposed Rules Call for 'Apples-to-Apples' Health Insurance Comparison Finding the cheapest insurance plan for diabetes or breast cancer patients may soon be just as easy as flipping soup cans to compare calorie counts and sodium content.

	Aug. 16, 2011 5 Months After Meltdown, Fukushima Citizens Still Face Radioactive Risks Five months after the deadly tsunami and Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, Japanese authorities have acknowledged that they misled residents about the radioactive dangers. John Sparks of Independent Television News gets an inside look at the area and reports on how citizens are dealing with the ongoing risks.

	Aug. 16, 2011 Study: Smoking, Bladder Cancer Link Higher in Women than Previously Thought Cigarettes may be linked to half of all bladder cancer cases for women in the United States, scientists from National Cancer Institute announced Tuesday. The new findings show the risk rate for women on par with that of men.

	Aug. 12, 2011 News Wrap: Appeals Court Rules Part of Health Care Law Unconstitutional In other news Friday, a federal appeals court in Atlanta ruled that Americans do not have to buy health insurance despite a mandate in President Obama's health care overhaul signed into law last year. The judges left the rest of the law intact. Also, the U.S. Postal Service is looking to lay off as many as 120,000 workers.

	Aug. 12, 2011 Americans Can't Be Forced to Buy Insurance, 11th Circuit Rules The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Friday that the federal government cannot force individuals to purchase health insurance under President Obama's landmark health overhaul.

	Aug. 11, 2011 Top Health Reform Player Berwick's Overhaul Vision Draws Praise, Rebuke As a leading player in the implementation of President Obama's health reform law, Donald Berwick has come under fire for his vision of fundamental changes to the U.S. health care system. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the controversy surrounding Berwick and his goals.

	Aug. 11, 2011 Berwick Recess Appointment Part of a 'Fundamentally Broken' System If most Americans haven't heard much about the man who now oversees two of the nation's biggest entitlement programs -- Medicare and Medicaid -- it's in part due to the political fight surrounding his appointment.

	Aug. 11, 2011 Secretary Sebelius Answers Your Questions on Health Insurance Exchanges HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius answers your questions about the big changes coming to the insurance marketplace when the new health insurance exchanges take effect in 2014.

	Aug. 9, 2011 Tweeting Your Health Woes Could Help Fight Disease According to a recent slate of independent studies, Twitter can accurately track the spread of a virus or disease -- and do it much faster than traditional surveillance methods.

	Aug. 9, 2011 Global Rise in C-Sections Troubles Experts C-section rates are skyrocketing in some of the world's poorest countries for reasons that may have little to do with the health of the mother or the child.

	Aug. 8, 2011 Telling the Story Behind Cancer Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," a history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived.

	Aug. 8, 2011 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? Desalinization of ocean water has been a dream and goal of scientist for decades, but the project takes on more urgency as the fast-growing world population's water needs outstrip supply. The technology is developing, but not without costs.

	Aug. 5, 2011 Mapping the Human Brain For this week's Science Nation, Miles O'Brien reports on a neuroanatomist who is using real brains to build three-dimensional brain maps.

	Aug. 4, 2011 How Will Debt-Ceiling Deal Affect Medicare for Patients, Doctors? At least one sector of the economy seems to have boycotted the national sigh of relief that accompanied the 11th-hour debt deal this week. With unspecified cuts to Medicare looming, most doctors and hospital employees say they'll keep holding their breath.

	Aug. 4, 2011 Panetta to Address Defense Cuts; Salmonella Sparks Turkey Recall Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta will hold his first press conference Thursday since he took on the head the job at the Pentagon after the retirement of Robert Gates earlier this year.

	Aug. 3, 2011 Haiti Braces for Storm, Cholera Surge A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic that has already killed more than 5,800.

	Aug. 3, 2011 'Made in India' Explores the Business of Surrogacy, From America to India On Thursday's NewsHour, we feature an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and the reproductive outsourcing business that brings them together.

	Aug. 2, 2011 Health Insurance Exchange 101 What exactly is a Health Insurance Exchange? Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News sits down with Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the purpose of the new electronic marketplaces and the upcoming impact they will have on millions of Americans.

	Aug. 2, 2011 Utah's Health Insurance Experiment Built Around Small Businesses Under the federal health care reform law, all states will be required to set up a health insurance exchange starting in 2014. Betty Ann Bowser reports on one state that is ahead of the game, and how the new system is helping small businesses.

	Aug. 2, 2011 Questions About Health Insurance Exchanges? Ask Secretary Sebelius On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour broadcast, we'll hear from health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser about Utah's health insurance exchange. Online, we ask Julie Appleby our own questions about the new online marketplaces. But now is your chance to ask HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius your own questions.

	Aug. 1, 2011 Birth Control Will Soon Be Co-Pay Free for Most U.S. Women In just one year, the price tag for birth control, yearly check-ups, breastfeeding support, and domestic violence screening will virtually disappear for American women.



	JULY July 29, 2011 Heat Advisory: When Exercise Could Be Bad For Your Health Each year, about 6,000 Americans are rushed to the emergency room after overheating during a sport or recreational activity, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

	July 28, 2011 How Much Will Health Reform Cost? Not Much, Study Finds The government may be picking up the tab for nearly half of the nation's health care expenses by the end of the decade -- a 4 percent hike from current levels -- but very little of that will be due to the health care reform law, according to a report published in the journal Health Affairs.

	July 27, 2011 Hepatitis Risk Spikes for Drug Users More than 2 billion people around the world are infected with hepatitis, a staggering figure that equals nearly one-third of the globe's population.

	July 27, 2011 Country Living May Hurt Your Health Americans may want to reconsider the notion that moving to the countryside makes them healthier. Rural residents have more difficulty accessing health care and are more likely to battle chronic disease than those in cities and suburbs, according to a new study.

	July 27, 2011 Health Care Reform Inches Closer to Supreme Court The Thomas Moore Law Center formally asked the Supreme Court Tuesday to reverse an appeals court decision upholding the health care reform law.

	July 26, 2011 Drugs Help Keep Seniors from Emergency Care, Study Finds Seniors with access to affordable prescription drugs require less spending on emergency and short-term nursing care, according to a new study of Medicare Part D.

	July 26, 2011 A Day in the Life of Japan's 'Nuclear Gypsies' More than 2,500 contract workers, lured by the promise of guaranteed work during an economic downturn, brave dangerously high radiation at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

	July 25, 2011 East Africa Famine: How to Help U.N. agencies are calling for $1.6 billion from donor countries to help speed food aid to malnourished and starving refugees in East Africa.

	July 25, 2011 Escaping the Epicenter of Eastern Africa's Famine More than 11 million people are in need of aid due to the worst drought to hit Eastern Africa in 60 years. Kenya and Ethiopia are struggling to absorb refugees from hardest-hit Somalia who are desperate for any food and water.

	July 22, 2011 Global Health Twitter Roundup Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Be sure to send us your suggestions, and you can nominate organizations for our weekly "one way to help" feature.

	July 22, 2011 Texting to Track Malaria Supplies Mobile phones are pervasive in the developing world, and now a new wave of mobile technology is dramatically changing the way health care workers provide services to rural communities in these regions.

	July 21, 2011 Soaring Food Costs Hit Indonesian Families' Budgets The price of rice has risen 25 percent in less than a year in Indonesia, and more families have stunted or malnourished children as a results of soaring costs.

	July 21, 2011 Medical Apps Slated for FDA Checkup This week, the Food and Drug Administration began seeking input on proposed guidelines that would allow it to regulate the ballooning market for "mobile medical apps," which are already used to monitor heart rate, dosage, and even conduct ultrasounds.

	July 21, 2011 Life in the Post Food-Surplus World Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem.

	July 20, 2011 Indonesian Plant Shows Promise for Male Birth Control A plant that reduces fertility, long used by Indonesian men, is being tested as a possible daily male birth control pill.

	July 20, 2011 Birth Control Set to Become More Accessible Under Health Law This week, a panel from the Institute of Medicine recommended complete coverage for birth control and FDA-approved contraception for women. Jeffrey Brown discusses what services could be covered under the health care reform law signed by President Obama last year with NPR's Julie Rovner.

	July 20, 2011 Sperm 'Cloak' Could Be a Factor in Some Male Infertility Cases A missing protein may be the culprit in millions of cases of male infertility, according to a new report released Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

	July 20, 2011 Wanted: New Birth Control Choices for Men Condoms or a vasectomy? Those are the choices for sexually active men who want to control their own fertility -- at least for now.

	July 19, 2011 Women Should Get Free Birth Control, HHS-Backed Group Urges Birth-control pills are among the contraceptives that could be offered at no cost to Americans.

	July 19, 2011 Slide Show: Indonesia's Rise Not Lifting Everyone Indonesia is fast becoming an economic power and has the fourth largest population in the world, behind the United States. A growing number of Indonesians can afford to shop in malls and eat Western food, but not everyone has benefited from Indonesia's growth.

	July 19, 2011 Indonesia Rising: A Country's Evolution Indonesia has 240 million people living on 6,000 islands, belonging to hundreds of ethnic groups. The evolving democracy continues to grow its economy.

	July 18, 2011 Secondhand Smoke Tied to Teen Hearing Trouble, Study Finds Most scientists agree secondhand smoke is bad for young lungs, but a new study shows it may also be going to the heads of adolescents.

	July 18, 2011 Indonesia's Mentally Ill Face Neglect, Mistreatment A shortage of health workers, lack of treatment options and widespread misconceptions about psychological disorders often leads to poor and inhuman treatment of mentally ill patients in Indonesia. Ray Suarez reports.

	July 18, 2011 Tsunami-Devastated Aceh an Epicenter of Mental Health Woes The December 2004 tsunami that killed more than 200,000 and wiped-out thousands of communities on the shores of the Indian Ocean was especially devastating to the people of Aceh, Indonesia.

	July 18, 2011 'Cooking Matters' Finds Recipe to Combat Food Insecurity Non-profit Cooking Matters is offering free cooking classes to low-income families in the Aurora, Colo., part of a national effort to teach skills for healthier eating on a limited budget.

	July 15, 2011 Global Health Twitter Roundup Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development.

	July 14, 2011 Sneak Peek: Indonesia Series Explores Rising Power's Major Health Challenges Ray Suarez speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about his series on the country's economic situation, food insecurity, mental health treatment problems and research into male birth control. The first report airs Monday on the NewsHour, but you can watch each report online first.

	July 13, 2011 Rationing Care or Controlling Costs? Medicare Board Takes Heat on the Hill Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spent two days on Capitol Hill this week, defending a board that some charge will ration Medicare.

	July 13, 2011 Studies: HIV Meds Can Help Prevent New Infections HIV-negative men and women who took a daily pill used to treat the disease reduced their risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 60 percent, new studies show.

	July 11, 2011 New Rules Unveiled for Health Care Exchanges Saying "flexibility is the name of the game," Department of Health and Human Services officials unveiled a broad framework for states to follow as they build their health insurance exchanges under the health reform law.

	July 11, 2011 Record Drought Threatens Millions in Eastern Africa More than 10 million people are desperately in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, the World Food Program estimated this week, as the worst drought in 60 years continues to ravage eastern Africa.

	July 11, 2011 Drought Threatens Horn of Africa Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes in Somalia and Ethiopia due to severe drought and food shortages.

	July 8, 2011 Big Sky Country Struggles With Yellowstone Oil Spill Aftermath In Montana, contractors have been working 12 hours a day to soak up what they can of the estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil that escaped into the Yellowstone River from a broken ExxonMobil pipeline. Correspondent Tom Bearden reports from Laurel, Mont., on the cleanup effort and health concerns for humans and wildlife.

	July 8, 2011 As Cuts Loom, Study Finds Medicaid Works Medicaid makes a big difference to the health and financial stability of the poor, a new study concludes.

	July 8, 2011 Global Health Twitter Round Up Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers.

	July 7, 2011 Budget Battle Closes in on Medicare, Medicaid Few details have emerged from the closed-door deficit reduction talks, but members of both parties now admit one thing: Changes could be on the way for Medicare and Medicaid.

	July 7, 2011 Drug Long Used by Vets Could Boost Fight Against Malaria A drug commonly used to combat heart worms in pets in the United States is becoming a versatile parasite-fighting treatment in regions stricken by tropical disease.

	July 6, 2011 Malawi's Muslim Communities Embrace Family Planning Muslim leaders and U.S. health workers in Malawi are partnering to shift attitudes towards family planning.

	July 5, 2011 Medicare Coverage of Pricey Cancer Drugs Spark 'Rationing' Debate As health care costs play an ever-increasing role in Washington's budget drama, Medicare officials announced last week they will continue to pay for two extremely expensive cancer treatments despite lingering questions about their effectiveness.

	July 5, 2011 Teaching the Importance of Breastfeeding The Indonesian Breastfeeding Center in Jakarta offers training classes for healthcare workers and for families.

	July 5, 2011 New Indonesia Law: Allow Breastfeeding, or Face Punishment In many impoverished parts of the developing world, breastfeeding can be a matter of life or death. That's because in the absence of breastfeeding, the water available to mix with formula is often contaminated and can cause a host of health problems for infants, including diarrhea and infection.

	July 4, 2011 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 has this encore report.

	July 4, 2011 The 9 Deadly Diseases That Plagued George Washington George Washington is a mainstay of history books for fighting everything from the British Empire to a cherry tree, but his private battles may have been the fiercest.

	July 1, 2011 Global Health Twitter Roundup The NewsHour's global health unit is starting a new feature, highlighting what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week.



	JUNE June 30, 2011 Denver Hospital Sets the Bar for Patient Safety As many as 96,000 people are estimated to die every year from an infection or a medical mistake after going into the hospital. And almost all of those deaths are preventable. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from a Denver hospital that has the lowest mortality rate of any academic medical center in the country.

	June 30, 2011 Doctors Tell Congress How to Rein in Prescription Drug Abuse More than 125 physicians descended on Capitol Hill this week to demand some relief in their fight against prescription drug addiction.

	June 30, 2011 Treatment for Deadly 'Sleeping Sickness' Shows Promise A new treatment for sleeping sickness, a neglected disease found in remote communities in Africa, is being developed through an innovative partnership.

	June 30, 2011 Jakarta Gridlock Creates a Public Health Nightmare More than 1,000 die each year in auto accidents in Jakarta, where population growth and lack of public transportation have created a traffic crisis.

	June 29, 2011 Health Reform Law's Supporters Encouraged by Appeals Court Ruling In the legal saga playing out over the health reform law, the Obama administration picked up a victory Wednesday: For the first time, a federal appeals court ruled on the case and voted 2-1 that the measure is constitutional.

	June 29, 2011 CT Scans Can Help Reduce Lung Cancer Deaths, Study Finds It's official: CT scans reduce the risk of death for heavy smokers with lung cancer by 20 percent compared to chest X-rays.

	June 29, 2011 The Socio-Economic Significance of Food Deserts What difference does living in a food desert make? Is it simply a matter of inconvenience? If food deserts only mean that people need to walk farther or rely on public transportation in order to buy healthy foods like fruits and vegetables, is that so bad? In a word, yes.

	June 29, 2011 Reporter's Notebook: Indonesia's Grand Goals, and Vulnerability Jakarta, the vast and sprawling capital is a tough place for uneducated people to make a living, yet they continue to pour in from every corner of the country, Ray Suarez reports during a recent reporting trip to Indonesia.

	June 29, 2011 Obama to Hold News Conference Amid Debt Ceiling Talks The last time President Obama held a major news conference, an earthquake and tsunami had just struck Japan, the revolt in Libya was a month old, a budget deal had yet to be hammered out to avert a government shutdown, the unemployment rate was below 9 percent, and the president had yet to declare he is running for re-election.

	June 28, 2011 Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope for Overcoming Impairments Scientists are creating a new generation of artificial body parts to help people with disabilities see, walk, swim, grip and run among other things. Miles O'Brien reports on the latest advances in prosthetics.

	June 28, 2011 High Food Prices Hit Small Indonesian Town Hard If you want to see how rising global food prices are affecting real people, follow the long dusty road to the small fishing village of Marunda, Indonesia.

	June 28, 2011 Food Prices Hit Small Town Indonesia Families in Marunda, Indonesia are facing declining salaries just as global food prices are on the rise.

	June 27, 2011 Study: BPA Makes Male Mice Less Masculine A new study released Monday shows that exposure to a common ingredient in plastic bottles and packaging can cause male mice to act like females. The lead author of the study discusses its significance for humans.

	June 27, 2011 Diabetes Cases Double, Highest Rates in Oceania and Middle East A new global study shows prevalence of diabetes has climbed steeply since 1980, and the number of cases worldwide is much higher than shown in previous estimates.

	June 24, 2011 Indonesians Looking for Improvement at Home, Watching U.S. Closely The NewsHour's global health team is currently in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, to produce a series of stories that will air next month.

	June 23, 2011 15 Tips to Combat Obesity in Babies Chubby cheeks for babies may not be so cute after all. A report released Thursday afternoon by the Institute of Medicine offers a stark reminder that obese babies often become obese adults -- and a series of simple steps could help reverse the trend.

	June 23, 2011 Reporter's Notebook: Indonesia's Mentally Ill, Caged and Bound Ray Suarez reports on a reporting trip to Cianjur, Indonesia, to visit some of the country's mentally ill, misunderstood and mistreated.

	June 22, 2011 New Clues to Deadly Strength of Germany E. Coli Strain A deadly strain of E. coli in Europe combined the abilities of two known pathogens to create a dangerous, virulent blend, new research shows.

	June 22, 2011 FDA Lays Out Global Strategy to Monitor for Dangerous Foods, Drugs In an unusual special report Monday, the Food and Drug Administration laid out a strategy it hopes will help it do a better job of policing America's food and drug supply.

	June 21, 2011 Cigarette Warnings Get Graphic, but Will Smokers Be Deterred? The biggest change to cigarette pack health warnings in 25 years came Tuesday when the FDA released nine graphic color images that will cover the entire top half of cigarette packs beginning next year. Margaret Warner discusses the new warnings with FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg.

	June 21, 2011 Snake Genome Suggests Treatments for Human Heart Disease Snakes have been around for some 150 million years, but their ancient physiology might hold some important clues to developing new drugs.

	June 21, 2011 New Cigarette Warning Labels Pack More Visual Punch Graphic images of diseased lungs, discolored teeth and dead bodies will soon greet smokers every time they reach for a cigarette. On Tuesday morning, the Food and Drug Administration unveiled nine new warning labels that will cover the upper half of every cigarette package starting in October 2012.

	June 21, 2011 Refugee Hot Zones Around the World The UN Refugee Agency released new 2010 data on the countries hosting the largest numbers of refugees and the countries producing large refugee populations.

	June 20, 2011 Study: Food Allergies in Children Becoming More Common, Severe A new study out Monday find that children's food allergies are now more common, and more severe. Gwen Ifill discusses the findings with Dr. Ruchi Gupta, the lead author of the study.

	June 20, 2011 Study: Severe Food Allergies More Common Among Children One in 13 American children have a food allergy -- far more than previously reported, according to a study released Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

	June 20, 2011 Medicare Advisory Group Urges Closer Look at Costs for MRIs, CT Scans With fresh attention on the powers of a new independent panel that will be created under the health reform law, there's been growing debate around a recommendation from an existing panel -- one calling for reduced payments and fewer MRIs.

	June 17, 2011 When Eating Well Is a Matter of Where You Live Patchwork Nation looks at "food deserts" around the country, where geography affects diet.

	June 17, 2011 Imprisoned Iranian Doctors Honored for HIV Work Two Iranian brothers who promoted compassionate HIV care and were imprisoned by the government were awarded the 2011 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights Thursday night.

	June 16, 2011 Certain Antibiotics Spur Widening Reports of Severe Side Effects A class of antibiotics called quinolones is raising concerns after some patients report becoming very ill after taking them. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports.

	June 16, 2011 Q&A: Head of the Global Health Initiative Talks Next Moves The Obama administration's Global Health Initiative is marking its first anniversary at work in eight focus countries, and is preparing to expand to 20 more by the end of the summer.

	June 15, 2011 'Fracking' for Natural Gas Continues to Raise Health Concerns Energy companies are increasingly scouring the U.S. for natural gas deposits. As they do, one of the extraction methods they are using, known as fracking, is coming under sharp scrutiny for potential health consequences from the chemicals involved. Tom Bearden reports from Colorado.

	June 15, 2011 In Many Countries, Cancer Patients Face Stigma, Misperceptions A growing body of research looks at perceptions of cancer and the stigma for patients, both self-inflicted and from their communities.

	June 14, 2011 New FDA Guidelines Help Consumers Spot Sunscreen Effectiveness The FDA announced Tuesday a series of changes in what consumers will see on sunscreen labels beginning next summer. Judy Woodruff discusses the new rules with The Skin Cancer Foundation's Dr. Ali Hendi.

	June 14, 2011 FDA Issues New Effectiveness Guidelines for Sunscreen The Food and Drug Administration released new regulations Tuesday for sunscreens that will require the products to be tested for protection against two types of sun exposure that cause sunburn, premature aging of the skin and skin cancer.

	June 10, 2011 Dance Helps Parkinson's Patients Harness Therapeutic Power of Movement Special correspondent Dave Iverson looks at a unique program that uses dance as therapy for people with Parkinson's disease.

	June 10, 2011 5 Global Health Headlines: Escaping Syria, Aids at 30, Viagra as a Weapon? The NewsHour's global health beat rounds up key stories from the week.

	June 10, 2011 Health Reform Headlines: Legal, Messaging Battles In this week's roundup of the top health reform news, an appeals court considered the legality of the individual mandate, and Democrats and Republicans sparred over the meaning of fresh polls.

	June 8, 2011 26 States Challenge Health Care Law in Court A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta heard arguments Wednesday on whether to reverse a Florida judge's ruling that struck down the Obama administration's health care law.

	June 7, 2011 AIDS at 30: Who's at Greatest Risk of Infection Now? In the spring of 1981, young gay men in New York and California were being sickened by rare forms of pneumonia and cancer, and the unknown disease fueled fears across society. What we now know as HIV/AIDS was once considered a death sentence. Ray Suarez reports on the state of the disease, plus the risks, treatment and research.

	June 7, 2011 30 Years of HIV/AIDS: Progress, but No Answer This week marks 30 years that the HIV virus has been with us.

	June 6, 2011 New Promise Shown in Treatments for Melanoma, Breast Cancer Two studies have doctors energized about the prospects for treating people with advanced cases of deadly skin cancer and the prospects for a new breast cancer drug. Judy Woodruff discusses the latest developments with Dr. George Sledge of The American Society of Clinical Oncology.

	June 6, 2011 Essay: Treating the Earliest Cases of AIDS It's been 30 years since the first reported case of AIDS, leading many in the medical community to reflect on the challenges of the earliest days of the crisis.

	June 6, 2011 AIDS at 30: In Early Years, Uncertainty Fueled Fear and Confusion When AIDS began sweeping through communities in the early 1980s, little was known about the disease -- except its deadly cost.

	June 6, 2011 Studies Show Promise for Treating Melanoma Two studies showed that new drug therapy options may extend the lives of patients with late-stage melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

	June 6, 2011 Sprouts? Cucumbers? Authorities Still Searching for Source of E. Coli Bacteria like E. coli can flourish on certain types of farms. Here's a look at why.

	June 6, 2011 Six Killed in Yemen Violence, German Farm Likely Source of E. Coli Outbreak Also: Humala, Fujimori split by narrow margin in Peru presidential runoff, five U.S. troops killed in Baghdad.

	June 3, 2011 Jack Kevorkian, Doctor who Brought Assisted Suicide to National Spotlight, Dies Dr. Jack Kevorkian died Friday at a Michigan hospital while being treated for pneumonia and kidney problems. He was 83. Ray Suarez reports on the man who brought the issue of doctor-assisted suicide into the national spotlight.

	June 3, 2011 Health Reform Headlines: 'Romneycare,' Medicare Debate Shortly after Mitt Romney launched his official bid for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, he raised one of the issues likely to haunt his bid for the White House: health care reform.

	June 3, 2011 Excerpt: Kevorkian on First Assisted Suicide in 1990 In this excerpt from a June 1990 NewsHour interview, Kevorkian explains and defends his actions in his first assisted suicide case, which involved Janet Adkins, a Portland woman with Alzheimer's disease.

	June 3, 2011 5 Top Global Health Stories: E. Coli Strikes Europe, Possible Cell Phone-Cancer At least 18 people have died and more than 1,700 have been sickened in Germany from an outbreak of a new strain of E. coli. Though the first cases were discovered in early May, the source of the outbreak has not yet been confirmed.

	June 2, 2011 Europe's Deadly E. Coli Outbreak a 'Wake-Up Call' Over Global Food Distribution A new strain of E. coli is sickening hundreds throughout Europe and leaving health officials baffled. Ray Suarez discusses the outbreak's global impact with attorney Bill Marler, who has worked on foodborne illness cases, and Cornell University food science professor Robert Gravani.

	June 2, 2011 In Europe, Fingers Pointing Over Origin of Deadly, Costly New E. Coli Strain A deadly new strain of E. coli is sickening hundreds throughout Europe and so far baffling researchers and health officials. Ray Suarez reports on the outbreak that has many Europeans concerned about the contents of their salads and soups.

	June 2, 2011 Plate Pushing Vegetables, Fruit Ousts Food Pyramid The government scrapped its food pyramid Thursday, replacing it with MyPlate, a campaign that encourages Americans to fill up half their diet with fruits and vegetables, and avoid sugary drinks and oversized portions.

	June 2, 2011 Toxic E. Coli Outbreak in Europe Baffles Officials, Casts Doubt on Produce A toxic new strain of E. coli bacteria that appears to have originated in Germany has concerned people avoiding salads -- and health officials scratching their heads.

	June 2, 2011 E.Coli Strain Outbreak in Europe Grows, Clashes Escalate in Yemen's Capital Also: Google says email hack originated in China, 15 more reported dead in Syria clashes, Massachusetts tornadoes kill 4.



	MAY May 31, 2011 Neurosurgeon: 'Your Cell Phone Is Not Necessarily a Safe Device' A World Health Organization panel of 31 scientists raised some concerns Tuesday when they reported that cell phones are "possibly carcinogenic" and may be associated with "some risk" for brain cancer. But the group also called for further study. Jeffery Brown discusses concerns and precautions with neurosurgeon Keith Black.

	May 30, 2011 Vatican Maintains Stance on Condoms at HIV/AIDS Summit At a weekend HIV/AIDS conference at the Vatican, the Catholic Church stood firm on its stance against the use of condoms to protect against the transmission of HIV. Ray Suarez and the NewsHour's Global Health Unit report from Rome.

	May 30, 2011 World Week Ahead: Vatican's Study on HIV; Mediation Talks in Libya In this week's top news from around the globe, the NewsHour has a team in Vatican City, reporting on a meeting about the care of people with HIV/AIDS. And later in the week, the U.N. Security Council meets on the continuing struggle in Libya.

	May 30, 2011 Vatican Holds Line on Condoms at Conference An AIDS conference hosted at the Vatican over the weekend quickly stamped out any lingering speculation that the Church might shift or broaden its policy against use of condoms to protect from HIV.

	May 27, 2011 Catholic Church Looks to Lead Conversation on Combating HIV/AIDS Amid its controversial stance over condom use, the Catholic Church is hosting a two-day conference on the global fight against HIV/AIDS. Reporting from Rome, Ray Suarez previews the conference.

	May 27, 2011 Study: 'Good' Cholesterol-Boosting Drug Fails to Reduce Heart Attacks, Strokes A new study found that a popular drugs that boosts HDL, also known as "good" cholesterol, does little to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Margaret Warner discusses what the results mean for medicating patients with high cholesterol with the Cleveland Clinic's chief of cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Stephen Nissen.

	May 27, 2011 Health Reform Headlines: Medicaid Support, Vermont's Universal Health Care Bill A look at the biggest stories in health reform this week.

	May 27, 2011 Vatican Hosts AIDS Meeting In Wake Of Condom Controversy The NewsHour's global health unit is in Rome this week to report on a two-day conference being hosted by the Vatican on the global fight against AIDS.

	May 26, 2011 Are Nurse Practitioners the Solution to Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors? As more Americans become covered by health insurance, the need for primary care is on the rise, but there is a shortage of primary-care physicians. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from Philadelphia on the growing role of nurse practitioners as primary caregivers.

	May 26, 2011 In Colorado, Health Care Law Creates Nurse-Run Clinic Sheridan Health Services opened in March with a $1.5 million grant from the federal health care reform law. The funding is part of an effort to increase the availability of primary care services nationwide by opening more clinics staffed by nurse practitioners, not doctors.

	May 26, 2011 GOP Seeks to Move Budget Debate Beyond Medicare One day after seeing an electoral rebuke to the House GOP budget proposal that overhauls Medicare into a voucher-like system for future beneficiaries, only five Republican Senators defected in support of it after Democrats forced a vote on it Wednesday night.

	May 25, 2011 Study: One in Five Young Adults Suffers from Hypertension Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that nearly one in five young adults between the ages of 24 and 32 has high blood pressure, also referred to as hypertension.

	May 24, 2011 Political Debate Over Accountable Care Organizations Heats Up Ever since the federal government rolled out its proposed rules for setting up Accountable Care Organizations in March, it's been one piece of bad news after another for the Obama administration. Now comes another blow on the political front.

	May 23, 2011 Pakistani Program Offers Affordable Health Insurance to Help Urban Poor One program in Pakistan is attempting to combat urban poverty, the root of many Pakistanis' problems, by providing affordable health insurance. Special correspondent Saima Mohsin reports from the nation's largest city, Karachi.

	May 23, 2011 How to Improve Medical Care? Doctors' Group Counts the Ways It might not be "Late Show" material, but the National Physicians Alliance is hoping its new David Letterman-inspired Top 5 Lists in Primary Care will still grab Americans' attention just the same.

	May 23, 2011 Audit Finds Widespread Use Of Anti-Psychotic Drugs In Nursing Homes As the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Daniel Levinson is the person at the federal government who's in charge of protecting the integrity of programs like Medicare and Medicaid. That means he's also supposed to keep an eye on how those big budget health programs are working for you and me.

	May 20, 2011 Top Global Health Stories: Docters in Bahrain Report Abuse, Paralyzed Man Stands Among this week's top global health stories, more than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for their role in aiding protestors, say human rights groups, and many are still locked up facing military trials.

	May 19, 2011 Study: Electrical Stimulation in Spine Helps Paraplegic Man Stand Again For the first time, a man completely paralyzed from the chest down regained the ability to take several steps with support and stand on his own thanks to electric stimulation to his spinal cord, new research published in the Lancet shows.

	May 19, 2011 Top 5 Health Reform Headlines A roundup of the latest news from the world of health care policy, from controversy about rising health insurance premiums to flaws in electronic medical records.

	May 19, 2011 Health Reform Pop Quiz! Can you tell the difference between the Massachusetts health reform law and the Affordable Care Act? A quiz from Politifact tests your knowledge.

	May 19, 2011 HHS Steps Up Efforts to Curb Health Insurance Premium Hikes The Department of Health and Human Services finalized regulations Thursday that will require insurance companies to disclose and justify rate increases above 10 percent.

	May 19, 2011 Giffords Recovering 'Really Well' Post Surgery, Mark Kelly Reports Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recovering well after a piece of her skull was repaired during surgery in Houston on Wednesday, reports her husband Mark Kelly, in an interview Thursday morning from space.

	May 18, 2011 Doctors Detained in Bahrain Face Accusations of Medical Abuses More than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for their role in aiding protestors, say human rights groups, and many are still locked up facing military trials.

	May 17, 2011 Study: Early Treatment 'Extremely Impressive' in Preventing HIV Spread Dramatic findings from a new clinical study show early HIV-AIDS treatment can help prevent the spread of the disease between sexual partners. Ray Suarez discusses what the findings suggest about using drugs for prevention of the disease with Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

	May 17, 2011 Report: Push for Electronic Medical Records Overlooks Security Gaps As the Obama administration pushes ahead with plans to increase the use of electronic medical records, two internal reports released Tuesday by the Department of Health and Human Services revealed "significant concerns" about security gaps in the system.

	May 17, 2011 Romney Hits the Jackpot in Las Vegas Fund-raiser Mitt Romney's haul from his Las Vegas call-day exists, for the time being, in a vacuum, without any other figures for comparison. And that was precisely the campaign's goal as it set out to boast financial prowess, intimidate the opposition and build momentum for Romney's second attempt at winning the White House.

	May 16, 2011 Early HIV Treatment an Effective -- But Costly -- Prevention Method A new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases showes that early treatment of HIV can help stop spread of the disease to sexual partners at an astonishingly high rate.

	May 16, 2011 Gingrich Calls GOP Budget 'Right Wing Social Engineering' Former House speaker Newt Gingrich broke from his party leadership on the Hill by stiff-arming the budget drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and passed last month in the House.

	May 13, 2011 Medicare, Social Security May Exhaust Funds Sooner Than Expected The trustees who oversee the finances of Medicare and Social Security said Friday that both programs will exhaust their trust funds sooner than previously expected.

	May 13, 2011 Top Five Global Health Headlines: HIV Prevention Breakthrough The key to slowing the spread of the HIV epidemic could lie in the medicines already being used to treat HIV positive patients, researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced this week.

	May 12, 2011 Romney Aims to Tackle His Health Care Conundrum Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has a tough assignment Thursday when he takes the stage at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to discuss health care.

	May 11, 2011 Ukraine Struggles to Curb HIV Epidemic Amid Drug Shortages, Political Hurdles Ukraine has the highest HIV infection rate in Europe and now there are fears its epidemic could spread to neighboring countries. Special correspondent Kira Kay reports from Ukraine on the health issue.

	May 11, 2011 Slide Show: The Japan Crisis, 2 Months Later It has been two months since a catastrophic earthquake rocked Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and critically damaging the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

	May 11, 2011 In Wake of Duerson Case, 5 Questions About Football and Brain Injury Just before he took his life this winter, former football great David Duerson sent a text message to his ex-wife -- and wrote a suicide note as well -- that would call attention once again to some big questions surrounding football and the possibility of permanent brain injury among some players.

	May 10, 2011 Study: 44 Million Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under GOP Plan A new study released Tuesday by two nonpartisan organizations added new fuel to the debate over debt and spending when the report found that debt reduction proposals by House Republicans lawmakers could leave up to 44 million more low-income and disabled Americans without health insurance.

	May 10, 2011 The Making of a Memory Master: An Interview with Joshua Foer Hari Sreenivasan caught up with journalist-turned mental athlete Joshua Foer recently to discuss the neuroscience and history of memory and Foer's recent book, "Moonwalking with Einstein."

	May 10, 2011 Appeals Court Hears Virginia Health Care Reform Challenges The legal battle over the new health care reform law has moved to Richmond, Virginia, with the first oral arguments in a federal appeals court for cases brought by Virginia's Attorney General, Republican Ken Cuccinelli, and Liberty University.

	May 9, 2011 Autism Prevalence May Be Far Higher Than Believed, Study Finds For the first time, researchers have studied an entire population sample and found that one in 38 children exhibited symptoms of Autism.

	May 6, 2011 Another Look at 'Health for Sale' You may have seen our story this week on a new exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art called "Health for Sale: Posters from the William H. Helfand Collection." Here's a closer look at some of the posters.

	May 6, 2011 Top 5 Headlines in Health Reform Here's a roundup of what's been happening in health reform this week.

	May 6, 2011 New Plan Aims to Shift How Hospitals Are Paid for Medicare Patients The federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalizing a new reimbursement plan that will determine how hospitals get paid to take care of Medicare patients.

	May 5, 2011 Philadelphia 'Health for Sale' Exhibit Retraces Medicinal History in Vintage Ads The Philadelphia Museum of Art is featuring an exhibit of vintage medical posters that advertise cures for all kinds of ailments. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the advertisements-turned-art.

	May 5, 2011 Top Global Health Headlines: Pakistani Aid After Bin Laden; Doctors Detained The revelation that Osama bin Laden was living in a Pakistani city not far from Islamabad prior to his death has some members of Congress questioning the United States' nearly $1.3 billion in annual aid to the country.

	May 5, 2011 Q&A: Are Drug Shortages Multiplying? If you're a patient in the emergency room, or fighting a long battle with cancer, there's a chance your doctors may not have access to the best drugs to treat you because of rising prescription drug shortages.

	May 4, 2011 House Votes to Cut Funding for State Health Insurance Exchanges House Republicans advanced their latest bill to dismantle the new health care law, with a Tuesday night vote to defund state health insurance exchanges.

	May 4, 2011 China Tries to Kick the Public Smoking Habit When the NewsHour's global health team visited China last year for stories on tobacco, obesity and other health issues, they found a smoker's paradise and an anti-tobacco advocate's nightmare.

	May 3, 2011 Accountable Care Organizations in Health Reform Decoded Anybody who's got more than one medical condition knows the drill. You go to the cardiologist with a heart problem. You go to the orthopedic surgeon if your back hurts. You find an oncologist if you need chemotherapy.



	APRIL April 29, 2011 This Week in Health Reform Republicans have spent much of their two-week congressional recess fending off questions from voters about their new budget proposal, which includes a revamping of the Medicare system.

	April 29, 2011 Global Health Headlines: Food Aid to be Sent to North Korea Also: China's aging population poses challenges for health care providers and the work force, and a new cervical vaccine campaign kicks off in Rwanda,

	April 28, 2011 In Nigerian Maternity Wards, Preventable Causes Claim Many Lives In "The Edge of Joy," filmmaker Dawn Shapiro goes inside a busy maternity ward in Nigeria, where maternal deaths are among the world's highest. The documentary is the first in a series of independently produced films from around the world aired in a partnership between The Economist magazine and the NewsHour.

	April 28, 2011 Giffords Travels to Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch as Recovery Progresses Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery from a gunshot wound marks a milestone as she travels to watch husband Mark Kelly command Space Shuttle Endeavour's final flight. Despite regaining some abilities, she face many more challenges. Ray Suarez discusses her recovery with the National Rehabilitation Hospital's William Garmoe.

	April 28, 2011 New Screening Test May Detect Autism in 1-Year-Olds Can a brief checklist help pediatricians detect autism as early as an infant's first-year checkup? New research released on Thursday in the Journal of Pediatrics, indicates that in some cases, it probably can.

	April 28, 2011 Economist Film Project: Death at Birth in Nigeria We're announcing the start of something new: A partnership with the Economist magazine to showcase the art of filmmaking, called the Economist Film Project.

	April 27, 2011 Report: African-American Women at Higher Risk for Maternal Death in Calif. In California, African-American women are dying of pregnancy related-causes at rates seen in some developing countries, and at four times the rate of white women and other ethnic groups in the state.

	April 26, 2011 Autism Now: MacNeil Answers Viewer-Submitted Questions on Series In response to Robert MacNeil's six-part Autism Now series, the NewsHour received scores of questions, compliments and concerns via our website, social media and voicemail. Hari Sreenivasan discusses some viewers' comments and questions with MacNeil.

	April 26, 2011 Supreme Court Takes Up Case on Data Mining by Drug Companies Are prescription-drug records confidential medical data, or can drug companies use them to market their products? The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday on some states' laws aimed at curbing the marketing process known as "data mining." Ray Suarez reviews the arguments with the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle.

	April 26, 2011 Supreme Court Considers Prescription Privacy Case Should states be allowed to impose restrictions on drug companies that use purchased private prescription information to market their products?

	April 25, 2011 Autism Now: How Should We Address Deepening 'National Health Emergency'? Governments, educators, families and public health officials face mounting challenges in dealing with autism as the prevalence in the U.S. continues to grow. In the concluding segment in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil explores these issues and possible solutions in a roundtable with four autism researchers and advocates.

	April 22, 2011 Autism Now: For Adults With Autism, Few Support Options Past Age 21 Although federal law mandates educational services for children with autism, there are virtually no support services provided once they become adults. In the fifth report in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil profiles a young man in New Jersey -- and his family -- as they face an uncertain future for him.

	April 22, 2011 Top Five Global Health Headlines Humanitarian Needs in LibyaThe Libyan army may be scaling back in the besieged city of Misrata, the Associated Press reported Monday, after a bloody weekend of intense fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions.

	April 22, 2011 Autism Now: Bridget Taylor Extended Interview Below is an extended transcript excerpt from the Autism Now series, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Bridget Taylor, director of the Alpine Learning Group in Alpine, N.J., on adults with autism.

	April 22, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Peter Gerhardt Extended Interview Below is an extended transcript excerpt from the Autism Now series, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. Peter Gerhardt, director of adolescent education, McCarton School, New York City, on adults with autism.

	April 22, 2011 Autism 101 and Resources As part of the NewsHour's Autism Now series, here's a look at the basics on autism: what it is, how it is treated and key resources. Those looking for more information can also call the Autism Response Team at Autism Speaks at 888-AUTISM 2.

	April 21, 2011 Autism Now: Demand for Educational Resources for Children Outstrips Supply For public school systems, the demand for special educational and treatment resources for children with autism often outpaces what is available. In the fourth report in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil looks at how two schools in the New York City area handle teaching children and teens with autism.

	April 21, 2011 Obama vs. Ryan Plans: What Medicare Costs Are Saved, Shifted? Controlling mounting Medicare costs has become a central flash point in the budget deficit battle. Judy Woodruff discusses the brewing Medicare debate with Gail Wilensky, a former Medicare oversight official in the first Bush administration, and Chris Jennings, a former senior health adviser to President Clinton.

	April 21, 2011 Autism Now: Rima Ritholtz Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series of reports, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Rima Ritholtz, principal of Bronx autism charter school PS 176, on the schooling and treatment options for those with autism.

	April 21, 2011 Autism Now: Jessie Mojica Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Jesse Mojica, director of education policy for the Bronx borough president, on treatment and education for children with the disorder.

	April 21, 2011 Autism Now: Julie Fisher Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Julie Fisher, director of the Charter School for Autism in New York City, on treatment and schooling for children with the disorder.

	April 21, 2011 Judy Woodruff: Arts and Autism Our co-founder Robert MacNeil's reports this week on autism are drawing a large response from NewsHour viewers, reminding us of the power of effective story-telling and the huge interest in this condition that has touched so many families.

	April 20, 2011 Autism's Causes: How Close Are We to Solving the Puzzle? The rise in the number of reported autism cases has caused a surge in research to find the causes. For the latest thinking, Robert MacNeil speaks with four leading researchers about the issue. It's part three of the Autism Now series of reports.

	April 20, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Craig Newschaffer Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. Craig Newschaffer, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Drexel University, on the causes of autism.

	April 20, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Martha Herbert Extended Interview Below is an extended transcript excerpt from the Autism Now series, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. Martha Herbert, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who discussed autism's causes and appeared in the third report in the series.

	April 20, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Gerald Fishbach Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. Gerald Fishbach, science director of the Simons Foundation in New York, on the causes of autism.

	April 20, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. David Amaral Extended Interview Below is an extended transcript excerpt from the Autism Now series, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. David Amaral, research director at the MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis, on the causes of autism.

	April 20, 2011 Global Fund Hit by Millions of Dollars in Malaria Drug Thefts Millions of dollars worth of malaria medication donated through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria may have stolen, according to internal documents obtained by the Associated Press.

	April 20, 2011 Autism Now: Join a Live Chat Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET As part of the PBS NewsHour's ongoing Autism Now series, join us Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT) for an online panel discussion, hosted by correspondent Hari Sreenivasan about the state of autism research, treatment, understanding and more.

	April 19, 2011 Prescription Drug Abuse Targeted as a 'Public Health Crisis' The Obama administration launched a major campaign Tuesday to combat prescription drug abuse, which it says is the nation's fastest growing drug problem.

	April 19, 2011 Autism Now: Exploring the 'Phenomenal' Increase in U.S. Prevalence In the second report in his Autism Now series, Robert MacNeil investigates why the number of children with autism is increasing in the U.S. He meets children at different points on the autism spectrum and gets several views on the increase in prevalence -- from better diagnosis to a variety of environmental factors.

	April 19, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Irva Hertz-Piccotto Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series of reports, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Irva Hertz-Piccotto, chief of the division of environmental health at U.C Davis and a faculty member at the Mind Institute, on the prevalence of autism.

	April 19, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Sally Rogers Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Sally Rogers, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the MIND Institute, on the prevalence of autism.

	April 19, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Richard Grinker Extended Interview As part of our Autism Now series, below is an extended transcript excerpt, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology at George Washington University, on the prevalence of autism.

	April 18, 2011 Autism Now: Robert MacNeil Shares Grandson Nick's Story In the first of six reports in his Autism Now series, former NewsHour anchor Robert MacNeil takes viewers on a visit with his 6-year-old grandson, Nick, to see how autism affects the whole family. Nick experiences autism not just as a brain-development disorder, but also as physical ailments affecting his whole body.

	April 18, 2011 Autism Now: Dr. Timothy Buie Extended Interview Below is an extended transcript excerpt from the Autism Now series, edited for length, relevance and clarity, with Dr. Timothy Buie, associate in pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, who examined Robert MacNeil's grandson, Nick, for gastrointestinal problems, and appeared in the first report in the series.

	April 18, 2011 Escalating Misrata Siege Prompts Evacuations, Calls for Humanitarian Aid As attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces intensify on the rebel-held city of Misrata, the city's port has become a lifeline for supplies coming in and evacuees desperate to leave.

	April 15, 2011 Autism Now: MacNeil, Lehrer Discuss 'National Emergency' Explored in Series NewsHour founder and former anchor Robert MacNeil's six-part series on the puzzling prevalence of autism in the U.S. starts to air Monday on the PBS NewsHour. MacNeil speaks with Jim Lehrer about what's explored in the series and describes how autism has affected his family.

	April 15, 2011 A Year After BP Oil Spill Began, No Easy Answers on Gulf Coast's Future Nearly a year ago, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and triggered a massive oil spill before the leaking well was plugged. Tom Bearden returned to the Gulf to assess the environmental damage and found significant reports of erosion.

	April 15, 2011 Autism Now Series: A Viewer's Guide The PBS NewsHour is launching a special series of reports, both on-air and online, about a puzzling disorder that touches many lives across the U.S.: Autism Now will take a unique -- and uniquely personal -- look at how the condition impacts families, schools and communities.

	April 15, 2011 Meeting 'Autism's First Child' As part of the upcoming "Autism Now" series, we asked series producer Caren Zucker to re-introduce us to the story of Donald -- the first person ever diagnosed with autism -- which she wrote about with her colleague John Donovan in the October 2010 Atlantic magazine.

	April 14, 2011 China Struggles With Health Care Reform Amid Growing Demand Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports from China on the country's efforts to improve health care for its population, the world's largest.

	April 14, 2011 Top Five Global Health Headlines Budget deal includes cuts to foreign aid, study says half of world's 2.6 million stillbirths are preventable, Japan raises nuclear alert level, Clinton releases statement on "atrocities" in Libya, and agency head warns of effects of suspended AIDS funds.

	April 14, 2011 Colorado's Paradox: Healthy Adults, Unhealthy Children The Colorado Health Foundation's 2010 Report Card showed that the Rocky Mountain state is a health paradox -- with a population of healthy adults, but unhealthy children. .

	April 13, 2011 In China, Factory Workers Allege Poisoning From iPhone Production Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports from the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, where some factory workers say they've been poisoned by exposure to a toxic chemical while working at an Apple iPhone assembly plant.

	April 13, 2011 Autism Diagnoses Bring Slew of Costs for Families As part of the PBS NewsHour's Autism Now series, which begins airing on April 18, we explore some of the basics of autism, including the costs of treatment and therapy.

	April 12, 2011 New Initiative Aims to Reduce Medical Errors, Accidents Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday that her department will spend $1 billion dollars on a new program designed to cut down on medical mistakes, preventable injuries and infections in American hospitals.

	April 12, 2011 Obama Administration Introduces Plan to Reduce Preventable Medical Errors The Obama administration announced a new patient-safety program Tuesday on the heels of medical journal Health Affairs publishing a study showing that one in three people admitted to hospitals suffers a medical error or accident. Margaret Warner talks with Heath Affairs' Susan Dentzer about the study and the new plan.

	April 12, 2011 Autism Lesson Plan: Do You Have a Friend Who Thinks in Pictures? This lesson plan asks students to listen to facts about autism, and then design and create tools to assist their peers and friends with autism in social settings, such as the classroom or on a field trip, using what they have learned about the disorder.

	April 12, 2011 Seasonal Rains Bring Rise in Cholera Cases in Haiti The months-long rainy season is just beginning in Haiti, boosting the number of cases of cholera just as critical sanitation services are in limbo.

	April 12, 2011 Report: Medicare Patients Spend Less Time in Hospital for End-of-Life Care A new report released Tuesday by the Dartmouth Atlas Project shows that elderly Medicare patients are spending fewer days in the hospital at the end of life, but the care they received is more aggressive and expensive.

	April 8, 2011 Health Care Issues Key in Budget Battle All the week's budget negotiations are, in a sense, just a prelude to the real fight. Wrangling over next year's budget is just beginning.

	April 7, 2011 New Study Finds Medical Error Rates are Underreported When someone goes into the hospital for treatment for one condition, but acquires another one they didn't bargain for -- such as a bloodstream infection or a complication from the wrong medication -- it's called an "adverse event.

	April 7, 2011 Global Health Headlines: Superbug in India, Tobacco Warnings A drug-resistant superbug was found in about a quarter of samples taken from tap water and puddles in New Delhi, indicating the bacteria is circulating widely in the area.

	April 6, 2011 Estrogen Study Lead Researcher on Risks, Benefits of Hormone-Replacement Therapy Once a popular treatment for menopause symptoms, hormone-replacement therapy had come under scrutiny for raising the risk of certain diseases, but a new study found a reduced risk of breast cancer and other benefits for some women. Jeffrey Brown discusses the latest findings with Dr. Andrea LaCroix, the study's lead author.

	April 5, 2011 A Young Vet and His Dog In this web exclusive video, we profile 26 year old Chris Goehner, who deployed twice to Iraq. He's one of the 18 1/2 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan vets who have suffered from PTSD or major depression since coming home. Today, Goehner's PTSD is under control thanks to a Labrador-Retriever mix service dog named Pele.

	April 5, 2011 Latino Weight Boom on the Horizon If we consulted the health statistics, we might not be too surprised to find that the United States has the highest rate of obesity, at 30.6 percent. What country, would you guess, is number two? It's Mexico, with an adult obesity rate of 23 percent.

	April 5, 2011 Ryan Risks Political Backlash With GOP Budget Rollout As Congress wrangles over relatively minuscule reductions in non-defense discretionary spending for the remainder of the fiscal year, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is taking the long view Tuesday as he rolls out the House Republican budget for FY 2012 and puts a marker down on major reforms to Medicaid and Medicare.

	April 1, 2011 Robert MacNeil Returns to NewsHour for Autism Now For the first time in more than 15 years, Robert MacNeil is returning to the program he co-founded, with a major series of reports: Autism Now.

	April 1, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Radiation Fears, Teen Deaths, Measles Epidemic Japanese officials are debating expanding a 12-mile evacuation radius around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.



	MARCH March 31, 2011 Medicare Rules Will Guide Hospitals, Doctors Toward More Cooperation Medicare will encourage doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to team up to provide more coordinated care for patients, according to federal guidelines released Thursday.

	March 30, 2011 How Healthy Is Your County? A Few Miles Can Make a Big Difference What difference can a few miles make? It may be the difference between living a healthy life and struggling against a sea of health problems, according to a new study that ranks the relative health of counties.

	March 25, 2011 Health Reform Headlines The health reform law turned one this week, and opponents and proponents of the bill each used the occasion to advance their messages.

	March 24, 2011 Slide Show: Tuberculosis a Silent Killer Health officials are drawing attention to the 22 countries that contribute 80 percent of the global burden of tuberculosis on March 24, designated World TB Day.

	March 24, 2011 Tuberculosis a Silent Killer Around the Globe Thursday is World TB Day, bringing attention to the disease that kills an estimated 1.7 million people each year. Photographers look at the toll of the disease in Brazil, Afghanistan and India.

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

	March 23, 2011 Political Checklist: Health Reform's Uncertain Future and Conflict in Libya The Political Checklist is back this week, and Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and David Chalian look into how public opinion regarding President Obama's signature health insurance reform law is reverberating in American politics one year after it was signed into law.

	March 23, 2011 The Morning Line: Health Care Reform Turns One A lot has happened in the year since President Obama signed health reform into law. And despite all the campaign rhetoric, legislative battles and legal action, public opinion seems to be right where it was when the president put ink to paper and Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed the occasion to be "a big [bleeping] deal."

	March 22, 2011 Adding Up Health Reform, One Year Later One year in, politicians and policy-makers are still debating the legality and the long-term affects of the health care reform law. Meanwhile, most of the major provisions in the law are still several years away -- they don't start until 2014. But some significant new rules and programs did start last year.

	March 22, 2011 Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World's Trouble Spots In countries around the globe, the quest for clean water is a daily challenge tied to governance, infrastructure and other issues.

	March 21, 2011 One Year Into Health Reform, What Do You Want to Know? Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of health care reform -- and, it seems, Americans are as confused as ever about the law.

	March 18, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines Checking radiation levels in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture.

	March 18, 2011 Supporters Gear Up for Health Reform's First Birthday Next Wednesday the health care reform law turns one, and the White House and other supporters of reform are planning a public relations push to mark the birthday.

	March 17, 2011 China Health Minister on Japan Crisis: 'Uncertanities' Loom on Radiation Risk The PBS NewsHour has a reporting team in China this week, working on health, economy and other stories for a series you'll see in coming weeks. Jeffrey Kaye spoke with Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu about how Beijing is responding to the Japanese crisis.

	March 16, 2011 Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline Joanne Faryon of KPBS in San Diego reports on the resurgence of whooping cough in California after decades of the disease's decline.

	March 16, 2011 Judy Woodruff: Research, Health and the Spending Debate -- Part One For all their efforts, Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco weren't enough to lift the TV viewing audience for the Academy Awards over what they were in 2010. It was an eager, but far smaller audience who gathered in Washington last night to honor work that may arguably have a more lasting impact.

	March 16, 2011 The 'Fukushima 50': Nuclear Workers Stay Behind to Brave Plant's Woes As the nuclear crisis continued in Japan Wednesday, the world's attention turned to small corps of thus far anonymous workers who make up the last line of defense against a nuclear catastrophe at the earthquake and tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.

	March 16, 2011 In Denver, Mobile Clinic for the Homeless Returns Last year, the NewsHour profiled a mobile clinic for the homeless that was about to close due to budget cuts. Now, after months of searching for funding, the clinic is back on the streets.

	March 15, 2011 In Japan, Fears of Radiation Exposure Grow as Nuclear Crisis Worsens Japan's nuclear crisis continued Tuesday, as cooling systems continued to break down at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in earthquake and tsunami-stricken northeastern Japan.

	March 14, 2011 Responders Rush to Aid Japan Victims, Evacuees Tens of thousands of rescue workers are descending on Japan's northeast coast following the devastating earthquake and tsunami Friday that killed at least 10,000, according to a recent Associated Press estimate.

	March 14, 2011 Aid for Victims of Japan's Disaster The Japan Red Cross is working around the clock to provide food, shelter and medical services to the many people injured and displaced by Friday's earthquake and tsunami.

	March 11, 2011 Obama Administration Grants Maine Health Reform Waiver In the news this week: Making health reform more flexible for states.

	March 11, 2011 Young Athletes' Deaths Put New Focus on Heart Defects Last week, 16-year-old Wes Leonard died shortly after scoring the game-winning shot at his high school basketball game. Two days later, 17-year-old Matthew Hammerdorfer died after being hit in the chest during a rugby match. Their deaths have revived a debate about whether to require heart screening for young athletes.

	March 10, 2011 U.N. Report: Closing Gender Gap is Good for Food Security According to the report, closing the gender gap could increase agricultural output in the developing world by an average 2.5 percent to 4 percent.

	March 9, 2011 NewsHour Connect: Mass. Community Reacts to Living Near Wind Turbines Wind turbines, used around the world to provide energy, are often seen grouped together in wind farms in rural parts of Iowa, Texas and Nebraska.

	March 9, 2011 Guatemala's Archbishop Speaks on Family Planning, Violence Against Women Guatemala's Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales calls for more education about natural family planning, and encourages Guatemala's men to change their attitudes towards women.

	March 8, 2011 In Guatemala, Family Planning Clashes with Religion, Tradition In rural Guatemala, it is not unusual for women to have as many as 10 children, beginning in their teens and continuing into their 40s. That can take a big physical toll on mothers. Ray Suarez reports on the cultural, religious and logistical obstacles tied to teaching women about using birth control in a traditional society.

	March 8, 2011 Diabetes Data Reflect Health, Income and Socio-Economic Divides Living a healthy lifestyle is not easy in the U.S.- keeping fit is can be tough in the land supersizes and never-ending pasta bowls. But the health problems aren't the same everywhere, and in a paper released Tuesday government researchers identified an area they call "the diabetes belt" with high incidences of the disease.

	March 8, 2011 'Diabetes Belt' Encircles Southern U.S. Nearly 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control estimate, and that number could expand to one-third of the U.S.

	March 8, 2011 Buses Targeted by Guatemala City Gangs Bus drivers and their assistants have become frequent targets of extortion, threats and violent crimes in Guatemala City.

	March 7, 2011 'Epicenter of Violence': Guatemala Combats Brutality Toward Women Guatemala has become an epicenter of violence in Central America, and violence against women in particular has hit record levels. Ray Suarez and the NewsHour's Global Health Unit have the first of two reports from Guatemala with a look at programs aimed at stopping a long history of domestic violence.

	March 7, 2011 Study: 'Exergames' Provide Some Real Exercise A new study aims to quantify exactly how much exercise kids are getting when they play "exergames" like Dance Dance Revolution or Wii Fit.

	March 7, 2011 Slide Show: Life in Guatemala The first installment of the NewsHour's two-part series on Guatemala airs tonight.

	March 7, 2011 Women's Rights Advocate Fights Impunity of Gender Crimes in Guatemala Norma Cruz heads Fundacion Sobrevivientes (the Survivors' Foundation) in Guatemala City. The foundation works to help victims of gender violence and pushes for prosecution of the crimes.

	March 7, 2011 Timeline: Guatemala's Brutal Civil War The bloody civil war that raged through Guatemala for 36 years left a brutal legacy of violence behind it.

	March 4, 2011 Preview: Series on Women's Health and Safety in Guatemala The NewsHour will begin airing a two-part series on Monday, March 7, on the high levels of brutal violence against women in Guatemala and efforts to educate communities about family planning and maternal health.

	March 4, 2011 Health Reform: Senate Passes 1099 Repeal, But Final Passage Not in Sight The Republican-led House and Democratic-led Senate have both passed measures repealing an unpopular tax provision in the health reform law. But no final bill is in sight, because the two parties can't agree on how to make up for the money that the government will lose if it repeals the measure.

	March 4, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines People desperate to leave Libya and the violent clashes between rebel groups and Moammar Gadhafi's forces streamed to the Tunisia border this week, with as many as 10,000 to 15,000 people crossing each day.

	March 3, 2011 Spider-like Brain Cells May Be Active in Memory Making This image shows the interaction of astrocytes and neurons in the hippocampus of a rat.

	March 3, 2011 Scenes from Guatemala Known for it's scenic beauty but plagued by poverty, violence and malnutrition, Guatemala has the second largest indigenous population in the Western Hemisphere.

	March 3, 2011 Florida Judge Declines to Halt Health Reform Implementation A Florida judge on Tuesday refused to order the government to stop implementing the health care reform law, handing the Obama administration at least a temporary victory in the ongoing legal battle over reform.

	March 2, 2011 Medicare Fraud Is 'Incredibly Easy,' Congress Hears Aghaegbune "Ike" Odelugo fraudulently billed Medicare for nearly $10 million worth of medical equipment between 2005 and 2008. He testified, along with government and insurance officials, at a congressional hearing on reducing Medicare fraud.

	March 1, 2011 Republican Governors: Reform Law will Cost too Much Republican lawmakers and governors argued Tuesday that the health care reform law will cost too much -- at least from the states' perspective.



	FEBRUARY Feb. 28, 2011 President Obama Shifts on Health Care Reform Law for States President Obama announced he supports a change allowing states to opt-out of certain provisions of the health care reform law at an earlier date. Judy Woodruff talks with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, about the president's compromise with opponents of the law.

	Feb. 28, 2011 Report: Medical Experiments Conducted on U.S. Prisoners, Patients In an article released this weekend, Associated Press reporter Mike Stobbe details new revelations about medical experiments conducted decades ago by the U.S.

	Feb. 28, 2011 Students Use Invention to Help Haitians Get Clean Water Helping an orphanage in Haiti gain access to clean water gave some high school students the chance to put their engineering know-how to good use.

	Feb. 25, 2011 Health Reform Watch: A Judicial Win for Health Care Law It was one more mark in the judicial "win" column for supporters of the health care reform law this week.

	Feb. 25, 2011 'King's Speech' Draws Attention to New Stuttering Research "The King's Speech" is leading the Oscar buzz this year with 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor.

	Feb. 25, 2011 Matching Medical Supplies With Communities in Need One man's promise in Brazil leads to a lifetime of helping poor clinics all over the world with their medical needs.

	Feb. 25, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Fungi to Battle Malaria, Lead Poisoning in China Researchers have genetically modified fungi capable of killing off malaria-causing parasites in mosquitoes, and preventing parasites from developing in the first place. Malaria is transmitted from person to person by mosquitoes, but the parasites are what cause the disease.

	Feb. 24, 2011 Telling the Story Behind Cancer Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," a history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived.

	Feb. 24, 2011 Poll: 1 in 5 Americans Believe Health Reform Was Repealed More than one in five Americans incorrectly believe that the health care reform law has been repealed, and another 26 percent aren't sure, according to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation Health Tracking Poll released Thursday.

	Feb. 24, 2011 Mobile Banking Could Be Global Health Tool Cell phone technology is flourishing in developing countries, and health experts are hoping to capitalize on a wave of mobile banking products.

	Feb. 23, 2011 D.C. Judge Upholds Health Reform Law as Cases Move Toward Supreme Court In the judicial back and forth over the health care reform law, the score is now three to two.

	Feb. 23, 2011 Venom From Around the World Dr. Zoltan Takacs hunts deadly snakes around the world in search of their venom. Once he's captured the reptile's poison, he brings it back to his Chicago lab where he studies the neurotoxins. Takacs is also photographer and takes advantage of his position to capture the snakes on camera.

	Feb. 23, 2011 Guinea Worm: Parasitic Infection Nearing Extinction Officials said this week that the effort to eradicate the Guinea Worm parasite -- a scourge that dates back to Biblical times -- is now 99 percent complete. Now that Niger and Nigeria have been declared guinea worm-free, the parasitic infection just needs to be eliminated from Ghana, Mali and Sudan. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Vaccine Producers Victorious in Supreme Court Ruling Over Lawsuits Judy Woodruff talks with the National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle about the Supreme Court's 6-2 ruling making it more difficult for parents who say their children were injured by vaccines to file lawsuits against drug makers.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Study: Cell Phone Radiation Stirs Brain Activity, but Health Effects Unknown Talking on a cell phone increases the activity in the parts of your brain near the phone's antenna, according to researchers who scanned the brains of a small group of people making 50-minute cell phone calls.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Preview: Picturesque Guatemala Overwhelmed by Violence, Poverty Senior correspondent Ray Suarez talks to Hari Sreenivasan about his reporting trip to Guatemela, where violence against women is systemic and widespread. The country is also hard hit with malnutrition and high rates of infant and maternal mortality.

	Feb. 22, 2011 Medicare Investigation Prompts Reflections on a Mother's Care Last week, in the largest nationwide bust of its kind ever, more than 700 federal agents fanned out from Miami to Los Angeles and rounded up 111 doctors, nurses, physical therapists and health company executives in nine cities.

	Feb. 18, 2011 Health Reform Watch: House Votes to Defund Reform; Senate Hurdle Awaits The House passed three amendments Friday that would block the government from spending money to implement the health reform law for the rest of this fiscal year.

	Feb. 18, 2011 Global Health Headlines: Obama Budget Proposal, Mutation May Protect from Cancer Obama Proposes Boost to Global Health Funding President Obama released his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal this week.

	Feb. 17, 2011 Exclusive: States Facing Massive Medicaid Budget Crunch Across the country, states faced with massive budget gaps are looking for ways to cut Medicaid spending. See how much states expect their Medicaid spending to rise in 2012.

	Feb. 17, 2011 Medicaid Recipients Nervous as States Start Chopping to Fill Budget Holes Governors across the U.S. are desperately looking for ways to fill huge budget gaps. Most are required by law to balance their budgets, which means big cuts in state spending on all programs, including Medicaid. That has many recipients worried. Betty Ann Bowser reports on battles in Arizona and elsewhere.

	Feb. 17, 2011 As Ariz. Seeks Smaller Medicaid Rolls, Cash-Strapped States Look to Mimic This week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that Arizona could drop 250,000 childless adults from the state's Medicaid program. The decision is being watched closely in statehouses all over the country, where governors facing massive budget deficits are trying to find ways to cut costs.

	Feb. 17, 2011 States Facing Huge Increases in Medicaid Bills in 2012 Federal stimulus funds that support Medicaid will dry up in June, leaving state governments to support much more of the program. The PBS NewsHour has obtained budgetary data revealing how much Medicaid costs will increase for each state in fiscal 2012.

	Feb. 17, 2011 Global Food Price Spike Adding to Civil Unrest, Some Say A record high price in many food staples is pushing millions into poverty and contributing to unrest in countries like Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said this week.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Study: Dwarfism Gene May Offer Protection From Cancer, Diabetes A gene mutation that causes dwarfism may also protect its bearers from developing age-related diseases like cancer and diabetes, according to a new study. The findings could someday lead to new preventative treatments.

	Feb. 16, 2011 Malnutrition Plagues Guatemala's Children Guatemala has the highest rate of chronic malnutrition among children in Latin America, and the health consequences continue on through adulthood.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Colorado Clinic Helps Diabetics Avoid Problems With 1-Stop Coordinated Care Betty Ann Bowser reports on a Colorado clinic that helps patients tackle the symptoms of diabetes before the disease's side effects become major health issues.

	Feb. 15, 2011 Reporter's Notebook: The Family Planning Frontier in Guatemala A week of travel in Guatemala is a feast for the eyes: stunning volcanic peaks covered in a carpet of green -- cabbages, coffee, melons, bananas growing on impossibly steep hillsides -- and people working hard to wrestle a living out of the ground.

	Feb. 11, 2011 Health Reform Watch: De-funding Efforts Begin, Berwick on the Hill GOP De-funding Effort to Start Next WeekRepublican lawmakers said Wednesday that they plan to use a spending bill that they'll bring to the House floor next week in their first effort to de-fund the health reform law.

	Feb. 10, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican to Host AIDS Conference Vatican to Host Aids ConferenceThe Vatican has announced plans to host an international conference at the end of May focusing on AIDS prevention and care.

	Feb. 9, 2011 California Program Stresses Early Detection, Treatment of Mental Illness Spencer Michels reports on a California organization working to identify mental illness in young people before their problems become worse.

	Feb. 9, 2011 'Practice-Changing' Cancer Study Shows Lymph Node Surgery May Be Unnecessary A decades-old treatment for breast cancer does not necessarily improve survival rates in women with early stage cancer, according to a study released this week. Gwen Ifill speaks with co-author Dr. Monica Morrow, a surgical oncologist at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

	Feb. 9, 2011 In Wake of Tucson Shootings, Program Tries to Catch, Treat Psychosis Early On Thursday's NewsHour, Spencer Michels reports on a San Francisco program aimed at an early diagnosis and treatment for severely mentally ill people. Here, a young man discusses his diagnosis.

	Feb. 9, 2011 'Let's Move' Campaign Turns One, Forgoes Cake One year ago today, first lady Michelle Obama sat down with the NewsHour's Jim Lehrer to discuss the launch of her new "Let's Move" campaign to tackle childhood obesity.

	Feb. 9, 2011 From the Field: Opening Horizons for Guatemala's Girls ANTIGUA, Guatemala-- For girls living in the rural, indigenous communities of Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, be married by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager.

	Feb. 8, 2011 News Wrap: Muslim Mob Attacks Churches, Court in Indonesia In other news Tuesday, hundreds of Muslim men demanding harsh punishment for a Christian on trial for blasphemy attacked churches and hurled rocks at a court building and riot police in Indonesia. Also, President Obama continued calls to build a high-speed rail system that can travel up to 250 mph.

	Feb. 8, 2011 Funding Shortage Threatens AIDS Drug Programs For the past year, William Kibler has relied on Florida's AIDS Drug Assistance Program to help provide the medicine he needs to stay healthy.

	Feb. 7, 2011 One-Woman Show Explores Human Side of Health Care Debate Judy Woodruff speaks with actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith about her one-woman play, "Let Me Down Easy," which tackles contemporary health care issues through the eyes of more than a dozen different characters, based on hundreds of interviews she conducted.

	Feb. 7, 2011 Testing New Tools to Quash Bed Bugs Bed bugs are survivors. They grow as large as ladybugs and can live a year without eating. With a long list of restrictions preventing the use of chemicals like DDT, which are noxious, but effective, researchers and pest control officials are in a race to develop the best new ways to detect and treat them.

	Feb. 4, 2011 Health Reform Watch: In Courts and Congress, Health Reform Faces Challengers The health reform law faced major challenges this week in the courts and in Congress.

	Feb. 4, 2011 What If Health Reform Had No Mandate? Politicians, Experts Weigh In In the wake of a second ruling from a federal judge this week who found the insurance mandate in the health reform law to be unconstitutional, there's a growing amount of chatter in the health policy world about whether lawmakers need to create a backup plan to the mandate.

	Feb. 4, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Aid to Egypt, Obesity and Cancer Backers of Egyptian President Mubarak on the streets of Cairo.

	Feb. 2, 2011 Health Care Repeal Fails in the Senate Republican efforts to repeal President Obama's signature health care reform law failed in the Senate Wednesday after supporters of repeal failed to garner the necessary 60 votes to overcome a procedural hurdle.

	Feb. 2, 2011 As Health Reform Challenges Proceed, States Face Big Decisions After four conflicting court rulings on the health care reform law, Ray Suarez looks at what's next for states and patients with Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress and Thomas Miller of the American Enterprise Institute.

	Feb. 2, 2011 Senate to Vote on Repeal of Health Care Reform Law As most of official Washington keeps its eyes on the streets of Cairo, the Senate on Wednesday will continue its ongoing debate over President Obama's health care reform law.

	Feb. 1, 2011 Judge's Health Care Ruling Sparks Political, Legal Debate In the most sweeping denouncement of the law to date, a federal judge in Florida ruled Monday that the entire health care overhaul enacted last year is unconstitutional.



	JANUARY Jan. 31, 2011 News Wrap: Florida Judge Rules Health Reform Law Unconstitutional In other news Monday, a federal judge in Florida declared the health reform law enacted last year unconstitutional. Amid other rulings, the law is expected to be considered by the Supreme Court. Also, new federal guidelines called for roughly half the U.S. population to limit daily salt intake to half a teaspoon.

	Jan. 31, 2011 Florida Judge Strikes Down Obama Health Care Overhaul A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law -- in its entirety -- unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and attorneys general from more than half of the states signing onto the lawsuit.

	Jan. 28, 2011 Health Reform Headlines: Administration Lays Groundwork for Health Care Fight President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years.

	Jan. 28, 2011 'Emperor of All Maladies' Author Mukherjee Answers Your Questions After our conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," the author offered to answer some questions submitted by NewsHour viewers.

	Jan. 28, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Global Fund Backlash, Foreign Aid Poll Executive Director of the Global Fund Michel Kazatchkine marches with AIDS advocates at the 2010 International AIDS Conference.

	Jan. 25, 2011 Telling the Story Behind Cancer Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser talks to Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," a history of the search for ways to treat cancer and how it has been perceived.

	Jan. 25, 2011 Ask 'Emperor of All Maladies' Author Mukherjee Your Questions About Cancer In his new book "The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee delves into the history and future of the disease.

	Jan. 24, 2011 Global Fund Defends Corruption Policies The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Monday it has "zero tolerance" for corruption, and downplayed a media report claiming flagrant misuse of funds within some projects backed by the organization.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Shields and Brooks on GOP's Repeal Effort, Obama's Overtures to Business, China Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks sort through the week's top political news, including President Obama's outreach to big business and China's president, plus the Republican-led vote in the House to repeal last year's health reform law.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Now in Houston, Giffords Faces Myriad Therapies to Regain Simple Skills Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' ambulance passed scores of well-wishers as she was taken to Houston for the next phase of rehabilitation after being shot. Judy Woodruff discusses what therapies she faces with Dr. Alexander Dromerick of Georgetown University Hospital and Dr. Christina Kwasnica of St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Health Headlines: What's Next for the Reform Law? After passing a repeal, Republicans plan to use legislative and political tools to try to slow implementation and starve funding of the bill over the next two years.

	Jan. 21, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Push for USAID Cuts, Rotavirus Successes Republicans push for cuts in international development funding, flooding leads to food shortage in Sri Lanka, transgender killings in Honduras raise alarm.

	Jan. 20, 2011 House Ways and Means Among Panels Working on Health Reform Alternatives The House Ways and Means Committee announced Thursday that its first hearing will be on Wednesday, one day after President Obama's State of the Union address.

	Jan. 20, 2011 As Republicans Push Health Reform Repeal, How Do Americans View Law? In terms of keeping promises, Wednesday's vote to repeal the health reform law stands as a significant checkmark on the House Republican agenda, but what does it mean outside of Washington? Maybe not as much as GOP leaders hope, according to the Patchwork Nation project.

	Jan. 20, 2011 In South Korea, the Importance of 'Wellbeing' SEOUL, South Korea \| Signs with "wellbeing" written in English are popping up all over Korea from corner markets to high-end spas.

	Jan. 20, 2011 Traditional Korean Market A street market in Seoul, South Korea provides products old and new -- from bottled ginseng and roasted beetle larvae to glittery key chains and energy drinks.

	Jan. 19, 2011 House Votes to Repeal Health Reform Law The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal last year's landmark health reform legislation -- a mostly symbolic vote since the Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to pass repeal and might not even consider the measure.

	Jan. 19, 2011 House Republicans Pass Health Reform Repeal as Democrats Defend Law House Republicans fulfilled a campaign promise Wednesday, passing what was largely viewed as a symbolic repeal of the health care reform law. The measure is not likely to clear the Senate. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the day's events, then Gwen Ifill talks to Political Editor David Chalian about the politics behind the debate.

	Jan. 19, 2011 Health Reform Debate Revisited: What's the Tone in a New Congress? House Republicans are delivering on a campaign promise that helped fuel their many of election victories last year by debating a measure to repeal last year's health reform law.

	Jan. 18, 2011 'Minds on the Edge' Explores Public Policy Hurdles of Mental Illness The "Minds on the Edge" seminar, hosted by Fred Friendly and airing on many public broadcasting stations, explores the public policy dilemmas facing some people with mental illness and the communities in which they live.

	Jan. 18, 2011 House Leaders Frame Next Steps for Round 2 of Health Reform Debate On a day when debate began on the House floor over whether to repeal the health care law passed last year, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer both met with the media in separate news conferences.

	Jan. 18, 2011 Despite Long Odds, GOP-Led House Takes Aim at Health Reform Repeal The GOP-led House of Representatives restarted debate Tuesday over repealing last year's health reform bill, but the measure is not expected to clear the Senate. Betty Ann Bowser reports on the day's developments, and Judy Woodruff gets more from Republican Dan Lungren of California and Democrat Anthony Weiner of New York.

	Jan. 18, 2011 Violence Against Women Among Challenges in Haiti Human rights groups are calling for more security measures in the tent camps of Port-au-Prince to reduce the number of rapes and incidents of sexual violence.

	Jan. 18, 2011 House Takes Up Health Reform Repeal With Congress returning to scheduled business this week, the House of Representatives, led by Speaker John Boehner, is set to take up a proposed repeal of the health care reform law.

	Jan. 18, 2011 Congress Starts Up Repeal of Health Care Reform Law The House of Representatives returns to work Tuesday after putting legislative business on hold for a week to reflect on the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that left six people dead and 13 others wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

	Jan. 18, 2011 H1N1 Gives Clues to Universal Flu Vaccine Researchers found that the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza produced antibodies that provide protection from several flu strains.

	Jan. 17, 2011 Giffords' Case Offers Insight on Mysteries of the 'Changeable' Brain The treatment of severe brain injuries has garnered increased attention in the wake of the shooting of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

	Jan. 17, 2011 State Budget Cuts Slash Mental Health Funding Over the past ten days, the story of 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman in the Tucson shootings, has unfolded on news outlets throughout the world.

	Jan. 17, 2011 Poll: Support for Health Care Repeal Drops As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling.

	Jan. 14, 2011 Cholera Outbreak Compounds Haiti's Woes Jeffrey Brown looks at the battle against a cholera epidemic in Haiti, one year after a devastating earthquake upset an already fragile infrastructure.

	Jan. 14, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Malaria Vaccine, Haiti One Year Later A study published this week showed an experimental vaccine cut the risk of children contracting malaria by 46 percent for 15 months.

	Jan. 14, 2011 Health Reform Watch: After Tragedy, House Resumes Repeal Agenda After Shooting, House Resumes Repeal AgendaHouse Republicans said Thursday that the House will take up a vote to repeal the health care reform law next week, resuming their legislative agenda one week after it was delayed by the shooting of Rep.

	Jan. 12, 2011 In Photos: A Year of Tragedy and Survival in Haiti Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more.

	Jan. 11, 2011 For Some Young Men, a Dangerous Age for Mental Illness The shooting in Arizona has, once again, focused attention on a young man with possible mental illness who slipped through the cracks. But why is it that so many of these perpetrators are young men?

	Jan. 11, 2011 In Loughner Case, Missed Signals and a Troubled Mental Past Friends, neighbors and classmates recall a troubled Jared Lee Loughner, prone to angry outbursts and anti-social behavior. A panel of mental health experts discusses the missed signals and challenges of cases like Loughner's.

	Jan. 11, 2011 Reporter's Notebook: Memories from Haiti, One Year After the Quake Ray Suarez in Haiti, July 2010This past summer, I stood at the edge of a fetid pool of standing water.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Giffords Faces Uncertain Road for Medical Recovery Judy Woodruff gets more on the medical condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from Dr. Peter Rhee, the chief of trauma and emergency surgery at University Medical Center in Tucson.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Gunshot Wound Survivor: 'There Is Life After an Injury Like This' Ian Stewart, a journalist who was shot in the head 12 years ago while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone, talks about his experience with a traumatic brain injury.

	Jan. 10, 2011 Haiti Reconstruction Aid Falls Short, New Figures Show New figures on reconstruction aid to Haiti reveal that while billions have been pledged, international donors were slow to deliver funds in 2010.

	Jan. 7, 2011 In Haiti, Hardships Plentiful as Earthquake Anniversary Nears Jeffrey Brown begins a week of reports from Haiti, one year after a major earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other parts of the country. Many residents remain in tent camps, where they are still struggling to rebuild their lives and the constant threat of cholera has compounded the loss of life.

	Jan. 7, 2011 Health Reform Watch: Repeal Vote Set for Wednesday House Sets up Wednesday Vote on RepealThe showdown over health care reforms continues.

	Jan. 6, 2011 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Rape in Haiti, India Rejects HIV Patent Rape a concern in Haiti tent camps, India rejects Abbott ARV patent request and the study first linking Austism and vaccines is criticized.

	Jan. 6, 2011 Journal: Study That Linked Vaccine and Autism Was 'Fraudulent' A study that linked the Measles, Mumps & Rubella vaccine to autism was "fraudulent," and based on manipulated data and patient records, according to an investigation published Thursday in the British Medical Journal.

	Jan. 6, 2011 Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake.

	Jan. 5, 2011 News Wrap: Administration to Drop Mentions of End-of-Life Counseling In other news Wednesday, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling as a covered service under Medicare. Also, more rain is forecast for flood-ravaged Queensland, Australia, which is already coping with 80,000 square miles underwater and mass evacuations.

	Jan. 5, 2011 Health Care Reform in 2011: What to Watch Hari Sreenivasan talks to Kaiser Health News reporter Mary Agnes Carey about some of the health care reform changes coming in 2011.

	Jan. 4, 2011 The Morning Line: Welcome Home, Mr. President After nearly two weeks out of town, President Obama returns to the White House Tuesday morning with a pretty hefty to-do list.

	Jan. 3, 2011 In Sudan, Possible New Country Poses Health Care System Challenges Less than 30 percent of people in southern Sudan have access to adequate health care. Widespread disease is threatening to overwhelm the African nation, where an upcoming secession referendum appears likely to create a new country. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports.

	Jan. 3, 2011 Video Dispatch: Haiti, a Year Later Jan. 12 will mark one year since a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti. The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown is reporting in Port-au-Prince and beyond this week on life in the country a year later, on the recent cholera outbreak and more.

	Jan. 3, 2011 Government Regulation Prompts New Look at 'Death Panel' Debate What's old is new again. As Republicans plan their strategy to go after the health care reform law "piece by piece" this year, one circa. 2009 issue looks to be poised for a comeback: end-of-life-care.