Dec 25 Commentary: Why Mammograms Are So Crucial Photo of woman getting a mammogram by BSIP/UIG via Getty Images. In the last 30 years, mammograms have led 1.3 million women to seek treatment for cancer that would never have harmed them, according to a recent report… Continue reading
Dec 25 Are Routine Mammograms Worth the Risk? Photo of a woman receiving a mammogram by BSIP/UIG via Getty Images. When it comes to mammograms, Candace Furlong is about as well-informed as a patient can get. She's a nurse practitioner. She's a regular reader of medical journals. Continue reading
Dec 24 Watch In Haiti, a Mission of Religion and Medicine for Father Rick The Rev. Rick Frechette went to Haiti 25 years ago on a religious mission to shelter families "broken by tragedy." In his mid-40s, he decided to become a doctor and built a modern pediatric medicine facility. Fred de Sam Lazaro… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch What Immigrants Can Teach the Rest of America What Immigrants Can Teach the Rest of America… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch Understanding Why Delivering Aid Can Be a Dangerous Endeavor While aid groups operate with apolitical, humanitarian intentions, workers trying to bring relief in the middle of conflicts often find themselves in danger. Ray Suarez talks to Joel Charny of InterAction about the recent deaths of health workers trying to… Continue watching
Dec 20 ‘I Have Seen My Death’: How the World Discovered the X-Ray By Dr. Howard Markel An X-ray of a gunshot victim in Kyauk Taw, Myanmar. Photo by Kaung Htet/Getty Images. In a regular column on the PBS NewsHour website, Dr. Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the… Continue reading
Dec 19 After Newtown Shootings, Questions About Mental Health Coverage President Barack Obama speaks at a vigil held Sunday night at Newtown High School for families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn. In his speech at the memorial service for the Newtown victims,… Continue reading
Dec 18 Why Diagnosing Adam Lanza Is a Problem Authorities are wrestling to understand what drove Adam Lanza to commit the unthinkable massacre of 20 children and their guardians. While details of his mental state are still unclear, many have said that Lanza may have suffered from a mental… Continue reading
Dec 17 Food for 9 Billion: Four Steps Toward a Climate-Friendly Diet In the next installment of the "Food for 9 Billion" series airing Monday on American Public Media's "Marketplace", Jon Miller of Homelands Productions visits Baltimore to explore how food producers are dealing with climate change and… Continue reading
Dec 17 Making an Environmentally Friendly Meal By Larisa Epatko Some Baltimore-based researchers and chefs are looking into how people's diets can be more environmentally friendly. Continue reading