Apr 24 Americans Seriously Unprepared for Long-Term Care, Survey Finds By Jason Kane It's a classic case of denial. Roughly half of Americans above the age of 40 believe "almost everyone" is likely to require long-term care as they age. Just a quarter think they will need it for themselves. The truth:… Continue reading
Apr 22 The Importance of Reflecting on Death, Especially After Boston Top photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Last Monday afternoon, author Erica Brown had some time on her hands in Boston. She was there to address a cultural arts gathering, and, with a few hours before… Continue reading
Apr 17 How Boston Is Managing Pain After the Blasts By Jason Kane First responders tend to the wounded, including a young boy in a wheelchair, where two explosions occurred along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Monday. Dr. David Mooney sees bleeding children all the time. As director of the… Continue reading
Apr 15 Top Five Ways the President's Budget Would Change Medicare By mcarey President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget includes a variety of what he says are "manageable" changes for Medicare's 54 million beneficiaries as well as for the hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers that serve them. That… Continue reading
Apr 12 The Day Polio Began Losing Its Grip on America By Dr. Howard Markel Elvis Presley receives the Salk polio vaccine in 1956. Awareness about the vaccine led to the end of polio in the U.S. Most babies today still receive the injection. Photo courtesy of March of Dimes. April 12, 1955, was… Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Hospitals Dispute Failure to Disclose Clinical Study Risks for Premature Infants Hospitals Dispute Failure to Disclose Clinical Study Risks for Premature Infants… Continue watching
Apr 11 How U.S. Obesity Compares With Other Countries Editor's Note: This article is the first in a series in which the PBS NewsHour and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, will explore how health care and health policy in OECD's 34 member countries compare… Continue reading
Apr 08 Finding the Prescription for Improving U.S. and Global Health Care By Susan Dentzer Whenever I travel around the country -- or the world -- and people I meet learn that I am a journalist focused on health and health care, they often ask: What country do you think has the best health… Continue reading
Apr 05 Why We Should Treat, Not Blame Addicts Struggling to Get 'Clean' EmbedVideo(6130, 482, 304); Journalist David Sheff talks with Judy Woodruff about his new book, "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy." It has been more than 40 years since Richard Nixon called for a "war on… Continue reading
Apr 04 Watch Writer Advocates 'Clean' Start for America on Addiction In his new book, "Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America's Greatest Tragedy," journalist David Sheff outlines a slew of reasons why addiction treatments largely fail to help 20 million people struggling with the disease. Judy Woodruff talks to Sheff about… Continue watching