May 03 Watch New CDC Report Finds Stunning Suicide Increases Among Middle-Aged Americans New CDC Report Finds Stunning Suicide Increases Among Middle-Aged Americans… Continue watching
May 03 Chart: America's Rising Suicide Problem Suicides now kill more Americans each year than car crashes, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2010 alone, 38,364 killed themselves in the United States -- 4,600 more than were killed… Continue reading
May 03 Are You a Work Potato? Two-thirds of American office workers experience pain on the job and a quarter expect it. Not from physical exertion but the opposite -- too much hunching, sitting, clicking and staring at screens. According to a recent study from the… Continue reading
May 02 Watch Justice Department Plans Fight Over Federal Ruling on Morning-After Pill Justice Department Plans Fight Over Federal Ruling on Morning-After Pill… Continue watching
May 02 What a 'Private Option' for Medicaid Expansion Might Look Like The Obama administration wanted Republican states to accept the health law's Medicaid expansion pretty much as is. Republicans wanted Medicaid money in no-strings block grants. Arkansas has broached what could be a deal-making compromise, giving Washington the increased… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Pain and Consequences for Those Taking Too Much Pain Medication Pain and Consequences of Taking Too Much Pain Medication… Continue watching
Apr 30 Opinion: 40 Years After Roe v. Wade, A Pro-Life 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 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