Aug 21 How Quickly Are Health Insurance Premiums Rising? By Julie Appleby Family insurance premiums have risen by a modest 4 percent for the second year in a row, a new survey finds. But a growing number of workers are feeling the pinch of deductibles of at least $1,000. Photo by John… Continue reading
Aug 21 Twitter Chat: Will Health Insurance Exchanges Be a Benefit or a Burden? By Bridget Shirvell PBS NewsHour holds live Twitter chats each Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT. Join us on Twitter @NewsHour using #NewsHourChats. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Open enrollment for health insurance exchanges begins Oct. 1. The Obama administration… Continue reading
Aug 20 Watch Dramatically Revised Lyme Disease Statistics Raise New Questions About Risk Dramatically Revised Lyme Disease Statistics Raise New Questions About Risk… Continue watching
Aug 20 Why Lyme Disease Is 10 Times More Common Than Previously Thought In 2011, 96 percent of Lyme disease cases were concentrated in 13 states. Map by the PBS NewsHour. Around 300,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with Lyme disease annually, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported… Continue reading
Aug 20 Obamacare Premiums: Five Things You Should Know By Julie Appleby A volunteer organizes materials promoting new insurance options under the Affordable Care Act in a New Jersey neighborhood. How will the law impact premiums? Depends on who you ask. Photo by Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Premiums will skyrocket next… Continue reading
Aug 19 19 More Life Hacks to Keep You Out of the Nursing Home "Life hacks" are little tricks and tips that helpmake life more efficient in some way. On Aug. 8 we published a list of seven life hacks, and since then readers have added several of their own. Graphic by Elizabeth… Continue reading
Aug 19 A Curious Inspiration for the First Stethoscope By Dr. Howard Markel In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine, like the invention of the stethoscope. Photo By BSIP/UIG via Getty Images. Long before Hippocrates (ca. 460-380 B.C.) taught his… Continue reading
Aug 16 Should Drug Addicts Be Given Clean Needles? Sharing dirty needles is such an effective way of transmitting the virus that one out of 10 new infections worldwide can be attributed to IV drug use. Of the 16 million injecting drug users in the world, 3… Continue reading
Aug 12 The street of blood and smoke By Jason Kane On a narrow, dusty street in Tanzania, two women are fighting the global battle against tuberculosis and HIV. One is a nurse, the other is a drug dealer. Continue reading
Aug 09 Elders Get a CAPABLE Hand in Shoring Up Home Safety EmbedVideo(7116, 482, 304); CAPABLE is a Baltimore-based project that offers help from occupational therapists, nurses and handymen to low-income older adults to "age in place." Video by Justin Scuiletti and Joshua Barajas. BALTIMORE -- With a bad back… Continue reading