Jun 11 Watch Doctors Add Appeals Process for Kids Waiting for Adult Lung Transplants Doctors Add Appeals Process for Kids Waiting for Adult Lung Transplants… Continue watching
Jun 11 Watch Out of Legal Options, Justice Department Drops Fight on Morning-After Pill Out of Legal Options, Justice Department Drops Fight on Morning-After Pill… Continue watching
Jun 10 America's New Old Workforce: When Your Body Tells You It's Time to Retire EmbedVideo(6653, 482, 304); Video shot and produced by David Pelcyger. When Floridian Mike Kemp bought a bike store in 2001, he had no problem pulling 40-pound bikes off the top shelf. Now 69 and with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease… Continue reading
Jun 10 How Removing Trees Can Kill You The trees died first. One hundred million of them in the eastern and midwestern United States. The culprit: the emerald ash borer, a beetle that entered the U.S. through Detroit in 2002 and quickly spread to Iowa, New York,… Continue reading
Jun 07 Alzheimer's Disease: Your Questions Answered More than 5 million Americans now suffer from Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States, and that number could easily triple by 2050 as the population grays. If the latest projections hold true, that will mean… Continue reading
Jun 03 From the Archives: Frank Lautenberg on Drinking Age, Secondhand Smoke EmbedVideo(6600, 482, 304); Frank R. Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, five-term senator, and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, died Monday morning. He was 89. He appeared on the The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on… Continue reading
Jun 03 Health Reform's Uncertain Impact on HIV Patients By Jason Kane In 2014, many HIV patients who receive medication through state-based drug assistance programs will be shifted to other forms of health coverage. It's an uncertain time for most HIV patients in the United States. A full two-thirds of them rely… Continue reading
May 31 Medicare Trust Fund's Life Extended, But What Does It Really Mean? Slower growth in spending is helping extend the life of Medicare's hospital trust fund to 2026, two years beyond last year's estimate, officials said Friday. They also reported, however, that Social Security's disability trust fund, which pays monthly… Continue reading
May 30 Watch Chopra Brothers Tell Story of How They Became Americans and Doctors in Memoir Chopra Brothers Tell Story of How They Became Americans and Doctors in Memoir… Continue watching
May 30 Watch Coping With Alzheimer's: A Mother and Daughter Portrait Of Long-Term Care Coping With Alzheimer's: A Mother and Daughter Portrait Of Long-Term Care… Continue watching