Mar 10 Watch Teaching expectant mothers how eating well translates to long-term benefits for baby By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 10 Uninsured rate drops due to health care law, but signups lag among Hispanics By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds that 15.9 percent of U.S. adults are uninsured thus far in 2014, down from 17.1 percent for the last three months of 2013. Continue reading
Mar 10 Doctors monitor patients remotely via smartphones and fitness trackers By Daniela Hernandez, Kaiser Health News With high-risk patients hooked up to “personal data trackers” — a portable electrocardiogram built into a smartphone case, for instance — he and his researchers can track the ups and downs of patients’ conditions as they go about their lives. Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch NewsHour's Miles O'Brien on moving forward after an accident led to amputation By PBS News Hour Miles O'Brien has traveled the world for the NewsHour, often to dangerous places, such as his recent trip to the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan. Last month, an injury during another reporting trip in the Philippines became life-threatening and… Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch Injections, gene therapy and treatment for infants raise hope for fighting AIDS By PBS News Hour News of three promising approaches raised hope at an AIDS conference this week: the prevention of HIV infections in monkeys through intravenous injections; the second successful treatment of a baby born with HIV; and a study showing the safety of… Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch Finding the right words in 'A Breast Cancer Alphabet' By PBS News Hour “B” is for breast. “I” is for indignity. “K” is for kindness. In “A Breast Cancer Alphabet,” NPR’s Madhulika Sikka has written a candid guide for patients, friends and caregivers to prepare and cope with that disease. She joins Judy… Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch Is Alzheimer's even more deadly than we thought? By PBS News Hour A new study in the journal Neurology finds Alzheimer’s may account for many more deaths than we previously realized. While the CDC ranks the disease as the sixth-leading killer in the U.S., the new study puts the annual death toll… Continue watching
Mar 06 Tonight on the NewsHour: Dr. Anthony Fauci on revelations for HIV treatment By Murrey Jacobson It’s been an interesting week in the field of AIDS research. There’s been talk about potentially giving people quarterly shots or injections instead of daily pills, gene therapy to fight off HIV, and an infected baby that was treated so… Continue reading
Mar 05 Obama administration announces two-year extensions for canceled health plans By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Warding off the specter of election-year health insurance cancellations, the Obama administration Wednesday announced a two-year extension for individual policies that don't meet requirements of the new health care law. The decision helps defuse a political problem for… Continue reading
Mar 05 'Private option' Medicaid expansion to continue in Arkansas By Jason Kane The Arkansas experiment to use federal Medicaid dollars to help low-income people buy private health insurance plans will survive another year. This “private option” of Medicaid expansion narrowly passed in the state’s House of Representatives on Tuesday after being rejected… Continue reading