Nov 07 President's Win Is Reprieve For Health Reform Law President Obama stands on stage after his victory speech at McCormick Place Nov. 6 in Chicago. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. President Barack Obama's victory cements the Affordable Care Act, expanding coverage to millions but leaving weighty questions about… Continue reading
Nov 06 Election Will Likely Decide Future of Affordable Care Act Elizabeth Doran of Orlando, Fla., holds a sign supporting Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan outside a voting precinct on Tuesday. Photo by Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda/Orlando Sentinel. The highest court in the country upheld most of the Affordable Care Act… Continue reading
Nov 05 If Ann Romney Is Next First Lady, What Would that Mean for M.S.? For Ann Romney, it started as it has for millions of Americans. Numbness. Dizziness. "Foggy brain." Simple things that, when combined, added up to a startling diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. After a year of aggressive intravenous steroid treatment in… Continue reading
Nov 05 'The President Is Ill': How Health Has Impacted the U.S. Presidency For Ann Romney, it started as it has for millions of Americans. Numbness. Dizziness. "Foggy brain." Simple things that, when combined, added up to a startling diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. After a year of aggressive intravenous steroid treatment in… Continue reading
Nov 02 Health Care Workers Brace for New Cholera Outbreaks in Haiti By Fred de Sam Lazaro PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Hurricane Sandy might have saved its fullest fury for America's mid-Atlantic coast, but its earlier blows in the Caribbean wreaked havoc in Haiti. Already struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane Isaac in August,… Continue reading
Nov 02 Haiti Battles Hurricane Sandy and Cholera By Larisa Epatko More than 50 people have died in Haiti from Hurricane Sandy, which hit the Caribbean island in late October, washing away crops and threatening to worsen a cholera epidemic. Continue reading
Nov 01 How Next President Could Change Health Law By mcarey On the presidential campaign trail, Republican Mitt Romney has repeatedly called for repeal of the 2010 health law and President Barack Obama has vowed to implement it. Yet both men could face obstacles: Romney may be stymied by the… Continue reading
Oct 31 China's Chances of Kicking a Growing Smoking Habit When China's top politicians gather early next month to pick the country's new leaders, one issue likely to be missing from the agenda is the single largest killer of Chinese people -- their smoking habit. As with any issue… Continue reading
Oct 29 As Diets Change in Greece, Obesity Becomes Growing Problem In the next installment of the "Food for 9 Billion" series, Jon Miller of Homelands Productions examines how Greece has come to have one of the world's highest obesity rates despite a native diet that is… Continue reading
Oct 26 Waste in U.S. Health Care: Your First-Hand Accounts According to the Institute of Medicine, about 30 percent of U.S. health care spending (about $750 billion) was wasted in 2009 on unnecessary services, excessive administrative costs, fraud and other problems. It's a problem that touches nearly every American… Continue reading