Jun 28 How Your Mental Health May Be Impacting Your Career Editor's Note: This article is part of a series in which the PBS NewsHour and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, explore how health care and health policy in OECD's 34 member countries compare with… Continue reading
Jun 26 Watch Hot, Dry Winds Help Spread Deadly Valley Fever Infections In the Mojave Desert, extreme heat and wind made worse by more intense weather conditions in recent years has helped the spread of a resilient fungus that causes a deadly infection known as Valley Fever. Ray Suarez reports on the… Continue watching
Jun 26 Valley Fever: 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know Valley fever is on the rise in the southwestern United States, including Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Are W. It was a Thursday morning in March that Al Rountree called his boss to say he was… Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch Colorado Struggles to Educate, Enroll Residents in New Health Insurance Exchange Colorado Struggles to Educate, Enroll Residents in New Health Insurance Exchange… Continue watching
Jun 24 Austin Musicians Don't Let Their Babies Grow Up Without Health Care By Jason Kane Get close enough to downtown Austin, Texas, and it's not hard to hear why it's called the "Live Music Capital of the World." Get a little closer, and the musicians themselves tell a quieter story. Take John Pointer. He's a… Continue reading
Jun 20 Watch HPV Vaccine Dramatically Cuts Number of Infections in Teen Girls HPV Vaccine Cuts Number of Infections in Teen Girls by Half… Continue watching
Jun 20 A Hormonal Happy Birthday By Dr. Howard Markel The word "hormone" made its scientific debut 108 years ago today. Photo by Alija/Getty Images The word hormone has long been a familiar part of the English vernacular. It can refer to a wide variety of things from the life-saving… Continue reading
Jun 19 HPV Vaccine Dramatically Reduces New Infections, Study Shows A teen girl gets an HPV shot. Photo by Getty images. Since the introduction of a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer in 2006, the number of new infections of human papillomavirus or HPV among teen girls has plummeted in… Continue reading
Jun 17 After Retiring, Bored Into Working EmbedVideo(6712, 482, 304); David Thompson is "semi-retired." After his official retirement, the NASCAR buff decided to take a part-time job at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. "I just did not want to totally quit working."… Continue reading
Jun 14 Do Dying Trees Lead to More Human Deaths? The Debate Continues The emerald ash borer has been attacking all 22 species of North American ash trees in the last few years, killing nearly every tree it infests. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Flickr user Darkroom Daze. The hypothesis: Trees improve people's… Continue reading