Apr 30 Opinion: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, A Pro-Choice Perspective On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, we revisit the hot-button issue of abortion, and debate its move from federal courts to state governments. Our guests are Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, and Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL… Continue reading
Apr 30 Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most? According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States -- or 2.7 percent of the population -- annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take… Continue reading
Apr 30 Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back… Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch Is Processed Food a Pandora’s Box for the American Diet? How did the United States become a nation where food isn't so much cooked as disassembled and reassembled? Author and former New York Times reporter Melanie Warner speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about her new book, "Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food… Continue watching
Apr 26 Maternal Health Hotline Helps Malawians Stay Connected By Imani Cheers [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdcn5fN8mnc&w=480&h=270] Doreen Namasala has been a community health worker for over a decade in rural Malawi, a small landlocked country in southeast Africa. With a population of roughly 15 million, an estimated 60 percent of women report having… Continue reading
Apr 26 Survey Finds Rate For Young Adult Coverage Improves While Others Decline In 2012, approximately 84 million adults -- or 46 percent of those aged 19 to 64 -- did not have health insurance coverage for the entire year or were considered underinsured, according to the findings of the Commonwealth Fund's 2012… Continue reading
Apr 25 How Cell Phones Are Helping Fight Malaria By Imani Cheers Community health workers receive new cell phones as incentives to continue their malaria rapid reporting. Photo by Imani Cheers/PBS NewsHour. LIVINGSTONE, Zambia --Tokozile Ngwenya-Kangombe, a project coordinator with Akros Research, knows first-hand how dangerous malaria can be for… Continue reading
Apr 24 Americans Seriously Unprepared for Long-Term Care, Survey Finds By Jason Kane It's a classic case of denial. Roughly half of Americans above the age of 40 believe "almost everyone" is likely to require long-term care as they age. Just a quarter think they will need it for themselves. The truth:… Continue reading
Apr 22 The Importance of Reflecting on Death, Especially After Boston Top photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Last Monday afternoon, author Erica Brown had some time on her hands in Boston. She was there to address a cultural arts gathering, and, with a few hours before… Continue reading
Apr 17 How Boston Is Managing Pain After the Blasts By Jason Kane First responders tend to the wounded, including a young boy in a wheelchair, where two explosions occurred along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Monday. Dr. David Mooney sees bleeding children all the time. As director of the… Continue reading