Jan 02 Bad luck, not genes or the environment, cause for many cancers, researchers find By Margaret Myers, Jason Kane Sometimes there just isn’t a good explanation for a cancer diagnosis other than random bad luck. That’s what researchers at Johns Hopkins have found. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein and biomathematician Cristian… Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch 7:53 Want to keep your New Year's resolutions? Stop living in the present and focus on the future By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 01 Mimicking real-life experience for alcoholics, NIH transforms lab into a bar to test treatment By Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The tequila sure looks real, so do the beer taps. Inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health, researchers are testing a possible new treatment to help heavy drinkers cut back -- using a replica of a… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch 10:49 Rose Bowl opponents team up to raise awareness of rare blood disorder By PBS News Hour Florida State and Oregon, two of college football's top teams, will go head-to-head in the Rose Bowl while teaming up to push for more research on a rare blood disorder few Americans even know exist. Hari Sreenivasan learns more from… Continue watching
Dec 31 As Rose Bowl shines spotlight on rare disease, here are three others that affect millions of Americans By Sarah McHaney While millions of Americans tune in to watch Florida State and the University of Oregon play in the Rose Bowl Thursday, two families are using the high profile game to raise awareness for a rare disease, Fanconi anemia. Continue reading
Dec 31 HHS Innovation Lab attempting to change how health care operates By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News The health law’s ambitious lab for transforming how medicine is delivered and financed submitted its official report card to Congress on Tuesday, boasting of a few early results but mostly showing many works in progress. Continue reading
Dec 31 Majority of Americans favor calorie postings in restaurants, vending machines By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say they already have enough information at restaurants to decide whether they are making a healthy purchase. But they want even more. Continue reading
Dec 31 5 things to know about health care in 2015 By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — New episodes in the nation's long-running political drama over health care are coming via your news feed in 2015. The fate of President Barack Obama's health care law again hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court weighs… Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 8:23 How do nonprofits turn social media sharing into successful fundraising? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 30 Officials call health-care sign-ups 'an encouraging start' By Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows that more than 4 million people selected plans for the first time or re-enrolled in what the administration called "an encouraging start."… Continue reading