Health Aug 10 Missionary recounts Ebola fight as both doctor and patient Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola while treating patients during last year's epidemic in West Africa. He was airlifted from Liberia back to the U.S. and received an experimental drug and other treatment at Emory University Hospital. Brantly joins Hari Sreenivasan…
Health Jul 21 Being shamed by a CEO turned this mom into a health privacy advocate Deanna Fei was thrilled when her daughter, born premature at 25 weeks, came home from the hospital. Then, her husband’s boss – the CEO of AOL – claimed he was trimming workers’ retirement benefits because the company had spent too…
Nation Jul 03 ‘Amazing Grace,’ a song of suffering to pull us together At the funeral for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator who was killed in the church shooting in Charleston, President Obama broke from his eulogy to sing ‘Amazing Grace,’ a song that exemplifies human vulnerability and redemption. Special…
Politics Jun 26 Former HHS Secretary Sebelius says health law strengthened with latest Supreme Court decision Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who oversaw Obamacare's passage and rocky implementation, said on Friday that the Supreme Court's latest decision on the law will strengthen it against leadership changes in the future.
Health May 01 Rural Indiana struggles with drug-fueled HIV epidemic A rural region of Indiana has become the center of the state's worst-ever HIV epidemic. For the first time, that state's legislature passed a bill this week allowing drug users in high-risk areas to trade used needles for clean ones.
Health May 01 Students in rural Indiana are suddenly experts on HIV AUSTIN, Ind. — Holli Reynolds didn’t entirely understand what HIV was when the news broke earlier this year that 11 people in her tiny town had tested positive for the virus that causes AIDS. Neither did her classmates — a…
Health Mar 02 How six words landed the Affordable Care Act at the Supreme Court again In the coming days, the Supreme Court will weigh whether states that rely on the federal health care exchange can provide subsidies to make insurance affordable. Special correspondent Sarah Varney of Kaiser Health News reports on how millions will be…
Health Feb 27 The extra costs of extra weight for older adults Lifelong obesity, now common in the U.S., is beginning to change how Americans age. Along Alabama's Gulf Coast, one in three adults is obese, and many who have lived with the negative health effects of excess weight are entering their…