Feb 27 FDA proposes new food labels to emphasize sugar, sodium and calories By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed changes to food nutrition labels that emphasizes calorie counts, changes serving sizes and emphasizes added sugars. Continue reading
Feb 26 Watch Why are younger children alone in reducing obesity rates? By PBS News Hour The Centers for Disease Control is reporting progress in cutting obesity among pre-schoolers. During the past decade, obesity in children aged 2 to 5 has dropped from 14 percent to 8 percent. Christina Economos of the Tufts University School of… Continue watching
Feb 25 Changes may be coming to nutrition facts labels By Zachary Treu The "nutrition facts" that appear on the sides of nearly all packaged foods and drinks in America may soon be seeing an overhaul, according to a Politico report. Continue reading
Feb 25 Verifying Affordable Care Act insurance causes headaches in some doctors' offices By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News Employees in some Texas practices spend hours on hold trying to verify that patients have new insurance under the ACA exchanges. Continue reading
Feb 22 Happy birthday to Renato Dulbecco, cancer researcher extraordinaire By Dr. Howard Markel Every elementary school student knows that Feb. 22 is George Washington's birthday. Far fewer (if any) know that it is also the birthday of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Renato Dulbecco. While not the father of his country -- he… Continue reading
Feb 21 Editor's note: Remembering Martha Monsson By News Desk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbqixL8Ubaw Last November, the PBS NewsHour ran a series of reports exploring how the Affordable Care Act was affecting the lives of Americans. On November 13, we aired our report about Martha Monsson, a Colorado woman with cancer… Continue reading
Feb 21 Popular Medicare Advantage plans could face cuts By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Obama administration says cuts to Medicare Advantage plans are on the table for next year. Continue reading
Feb 21 Twitter Chat: What are some of the biggest risks for developing cancer? By Bridget Shirvell Join PBS NewsHour, the Mayo Clinic and the American Association of Cancer Research for a Twitter chat on cancer on Feb. 27, from 1 to 2 p.m. EST. Doctors Axel Grothey, Paul Limburg, Sandhya Pruthi, Stephanie Hines along with Psychologist… Continue reading
Feb 20 Insured patients are often not transferred for better care, study finds By Sarah Varney Patients with insurance may not be transferred to specialized trauma centers as quickly as those without, a Stanford study has found… Continue reading
Feb 19 Watch Raising health and air quality concerns in Texas' fracking frontier By PBS News Hour Continue watching