Health Jun 03 Health Reform’s Uncertain Impact on HIV Patients In 2014, many HIV patients who receive medication through state-based drug assistance programs will be shifted to other forms of health coverage. It's an uncertain time for most HIV patients in the United States. A full two-thirds of them rely…
Health May 06 U.S. Health Costs Rising More Slowly, But Will It Last? Americans still pay more than twice the price for health care than most other developed countries, but the sticker shock has come with a bit of good news in recent years: Costs are rising more slowly. "Exceptionally slowly," as…
Health May 06 Best and Worst Countries for Babies on Their First Day of Life More than one million babies a year die on the day they are born according to a new report released by the international nonprofit Save the Children. The report ranks 186 countries based on the chances a baby will survive…
Health Apr 24 Americans Seriously Unprepared for Long-Term Care, Survey Finds It's a classic case of denial. Roughly half of Americans above the age of 40 believe "almost everyone" is likely to require long-term care as they age. Just a quarter think they will need it for themselves. The truth:…
Politics Apr 19 Boston Streets Eerily Quiet; Bruins, Sox Postpone Games Police on School and Arsenel streets on Friday in Watertown, Mass. Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images. Updated 6:04 p.m. In a news conference in Watertown, Mass., Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told Boston area residents that they may leave their homes,…
Health Apr 17 How Boston Is Managing Pain After the Blasts First responders tend to the wounded, including a young boy in a wheelchair, where two explosions occurred along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Monday. Dr. David Mooney sees bleeding children all the time. As director of the…
Health Jan 01 Health Reform May Be Headed Back to Supreme Court in 2013 Tea Party activist William Temple, protests in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, on June 28, the morning the justices ruled to uphold the vast majority of the health care reform law. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Should old acquaintance…
Health Dec 28 How Health Reform Could Change Your Coverage in 2013 EmbedVideo(5330, 482, 304); It's been a big year for the Affordable Care Act, a year filled with everything from a narrow victory in the Supreme Court to the re-election of a president who vows to implement the…
Arts Dec 11 ‘Ai Weiwei: According to What?’ at the Hirshhorn "Ai Weiwei: According to What?" at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., is the first-ever North American survey of the Chinese artist's work.
Health Nov 21 Does turkey really make you tired? ‘Tis the season for giving thanks and sharing blame. The fiscal cliff, Bush-era tax cuts, the White House, the 47 Percent, Greece, Spain — the accusations seem to be swirling everywhere this fall. So in the spirit of sharing guilt,…