Mar 12 Watch Researchers Aim to Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine for Vital Medical Information Researchers Aim Unlock Genetic Data Goldmine for Vital Medical Information… Continue watching
Mar 12 How Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA? On tonight's PBS NewsHour, Correspondent Spencer Michels and I report on a massive, groundbreaking study underway at Kaiser Permanente and the University of California at San Francisco, which one day may shed light on the genetic roots of health… Continue reading
Mar 12 What Blood, Spit and a Data Bank Can Tell Us About Disease Willie Mae Washington, 92, and her daughter Ida are among the 15,000 women in the Oakland area participating in a study on genetic links to diseases like cancer. Photo by Robert Durell. A giant data bank containing genetic… Continue reading
Mar 08 When CPR for the Elderly Becomes Morally Gray The call itself took seven minutes, 16 seconds to unfold and not much longer than that to spark outrage throughout the nation. The scene is now familiar to many: Lorraine Bayless, 87, was barely breathing at Glenwood Gardens… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch Arkansas Abortion Law Bans Procedures After 12 Weeks of Pregnancy Arkansas Legislature Passes Nation's Strictest Abortion Law… Continue watching
Mar 07 How Quickly Do Germs Spread in the Office? We've all done it. Come to work when we're sick. We know we're not doing our fellow workers any favors by exposing them to whatever we've got, but pressure to get our jobs done almost always trumps common… Continue reading
Mar 05 Watch New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan New Study Shows U.S. Lags Behind Other High-Income Countries in Female Lifespan… Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch Mississippi Doctors See Child-Size Breakthrough in the Global Fight Against AIDS Mississippi Doctors See Child-Size Breakthrough in the Global Fight Against AIDS… Continue watching
Mar 04 Finding a Doctor Who Accepts Medicare EmbedVideo(5881, 482, 304); Endless searching. Repeated rejection. Trips to the emergency room when all else fails. The horror stories are familiar to seniors who can't find a new primary care doctor willing to accept their Medicare coverage. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch Access to Doctors Shrinks for Some Medicare Patients It's getting harder and harder for some seniors to find a primary care physician. Ray Suarez reports on why the threat of massive cuts to Medicare reimbursement rates has left some doctors so worried that they've decided to stop taking… Continue watching