Dec 03 Obama launches campaign to resell health care law to the public EmbedVideo(8152); President Obama spoke on the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, in an effort to resell the health care law's benefits to the public. Video by PBS NewsHour WASHINGTON -- Seeking to move past its website woes, the Obama… Continue reading
Dec 03 How to save a dying heart By Dr. Howard Markel In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern health and medicine on their anniversaries, like the world's first human heart transplant on Dec. 3, 1967. In the photo above, Amy… Continue reading
Dec 02 White House gives check-up on HealthCare.gov website By Terence Burlij The Health and Human Services Department released a progress report Sunday on its effort get the troubled HealthCare.gov website on the mend. Administration officials said the worst of the online glitches, bugs and delays may be over. Photo by Andrew… Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Is healthcare.gov ready for its close-up? Bloomberg’s Shannon Pettypiece reports on the state of healthcare.gov before a second intense review beginning tomorrow, including a look at how some heavy users like insurers give the site low ratings. State-administered sites, said Pettypiece, are generally performing better. Continue watching
Nov 29 How to fight HIV through dance By Jason Kane, Justin Scuiletti // Listen to Lloyd Bore describe some of PSI's HIV-fighting weapons, including a dance troupe that performs regularly in the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Lloyd Bore knows a dance that's been proven to fight HIV. It's a difficult… Continue reading
Nov 27 Why some Americans are happy their health insurance is being canceled By Kaiser Health News Mercy Cabrera, an insurance agent with Sunshine Life and Health Advisors,helps customers navigate the online healthcare marketplace. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Barbara Neff of Santa Monica is one of the roughly 1 million Californians who recently got word… Continue reading
Nov 27 What seven teams of architects and engineers built with food By Jason Breslow, Victoria Fleischer Architects, engineers, designers and students build their structures for the 17th annual Canstruction competition in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Photo by Tidewater Community College Every year in more than 150 cities throughout the globe, architects, engineers, designers and… Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch Food writer Paula Wolfert reflects on cooking to cope with Alzheimer's Food writer Paula Wolfert reflects on cooking to cope with Alzheimer's… Continue watching
Nov 26 Healthcare.gov's Spanish version further delayed CHICAGO -- Add one more delay to the list for the rollout of President Barack Obama's health care law. This time, it's a postponement of the launch of online enrollment tools in Spanish. The Spanish version of HealthCare.gov now… Continue reading
Nov 25 The $234 billion job that goes unpaid By Elizabeth Shell Nearly 9 in 10 Americans who need some form of long-term care (LTC) get that assistance from family members or friends who volunteer their time. More than a third of these 'informal' caregivers are taking care of an… Continue reading