Sep 24 Watch First Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Breast Cancer Could Change Treatment First Comprehensive Genetic Analysis of Breast Cancer Could Change Treatment… Continue watching
Sep 24 Watch A PBS Documentary Asks Why is U.S. Health Care So Expensive? Ray Suarez talks with Roger Weisberg, the director of the film, "Money and Medicine."… Continue watching
Sep 21 Would Medicare Competition Help Contain Costs? By Julie Appleby Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire in August. Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images. This story was written by Julie Appleby and Marilyn Werber Serafini of Kaiser… Continue reading
Sep 17 Military Not Doing Enough to Curb Alcohol, Drug Abuse, IOM Concludes It's been well-documented that the military has a significant problem with suicide, substance abuse and mental disorders in its ranks. Just this summer, the Pentagon reported an 18 percent increase in suicide cases alone in just one year. In… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Medicare Patients Aren't Getting Sicker or Older, But Doctors Are Charging More Medicare Patients Aren't Getting Sicker or Older, But Doctors Are Charging More… Continue watching
Sep 14 What Would the Automatic Budget Cuts Mean for Medicare? Medicare providers would see reductions of about $11 billion beginning in January as part of a series of automatic spending cuts set to begin next year unless Congress acts to halt them, according to estimates released Friday by the… Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch Judy Woodruff Talks to Charles Scoville About Public Service Judy Woodruff Talks to Charles Scoville About Public Service… Continue watching
Sep 13 A Million Dollars for an Extra Year of Life? 'It's my tax dollars!' Tracy Morgan with her husband Mark before he died of brain cancer in 2011. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Thursday's query: Name: Nancy… Continue reading
Sep 12 More Americans Insured: What's Behind the Numbers? By Jason Kane For the first time in four years, the number of Americans without health insurance dropped in 2011. According to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Census Bureau, about 48.6 million people were uninsured last year, down from… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform Making Sen$e of Health Care: Competing Claims on Campaign Trail About Reform… Continue watching