Nov 06 Watch Will saying yes to affirmative consent curb college sexual assault? By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch How U.S. 'aggressive support' for Ebola patients saves lives By PBS News Hour In West Africa, Ebola has claimed the lives of 50 percent of people infected. In the U.S., the recovery rate is substantially better. Judy Woodruff learns more from Dr. Bruce Ribner of Emory University about the public health and infrastructure… Continue watching
Nov 05 Nation's first soda tax passed in Berkeley By Connie Kargbo Berkeley residents will now pay more for sodas and drinks with added sugar after voters approved a measure on Tuesday that will tax sugary drinks. Across the bay in San Francisco, a similar measure fell short. Continue reading
Nov 05 Voters provide mixed messages on health ballot measures By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News The Affordable Care Act wasn’t directly on the ballot in any state, but voters did decide a host of health-related issues in Tuesday’s elections. And there was no clear theme to what won and lost. Continue reading
Nov 05 Some gubernatorial wins make Medicaid expansion unlikely By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Tuesday’s re-election of Republican governors in closely contested races in Florida, Georgia, Wisconsin, Maine and Kansas dims the chances of Medicaid expansion in those states. Continue reading
Nov 03 Right-to-die advocate Brittany Maynard ends life 'in the arms of her loved ones' By Tik Root On Saturday, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard took her own life. The move was not unexpected -- Maynard suffered from terminal brain cancer and had publicly stated that she planned to end her life on Nov. 1, but following through on the… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch Go inside a U.S. hospital preparing for more Ebola cases By PBS News Hour In a special ward of Mount Sinai in Manhattan, doctors, nurses and security are prepping at top speed for a dreaded scenario: someone with Ebola walking through their doors. The NewsHour’s Megan Thompson reports from one of eight hospitals in… Continue watching
Oct 31 Medicare paid for drugs after patients had died, report finds By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Call it drugs for the departed: Medicare's prescription program kept paying for costly medications even after patients were dead. The problem was traced back to a head-scratching bureaucratic rule that's now getting a second look. Continue reading
Oct 31 Soldiers and civilians face different Ebola protocols By Jim Kuhnhenn, Robert Burns, Associated Press WASHINGTON — A U.S. soldier returning from an Ebola response mission in West Africa would have to spend 21 days being monitored, isolated in a military facility away from family and the broader population. A returning civilian doctor or nurse… Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch Doctors face tough treatment choices in the midst of the Ebola crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching