May 14 Many Businesses Offer Health Benefits To Same-Sex Couples Ahead Of Laws Photo by Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Obama's pronouncement last week in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers' domestic partners, but some advocates believe it… Continue reading
May 11 Watch A Drug to Prevent HIV's Spread: Truvada's Promises and Problems A Drug to Prevent HIV's Spread: Truvada's Promises and Problems… Continue watching
May 10 Watch FDA Urges Caution Over Long-Term Use of Bone-Density-Building Drugs FDA Urges Caution Over Long-Term Use of Bone-Density-Building Drugs… Continue watching
May 10 Key Psychiatric Doctor Rejects Name Change for PTSD PHILADELPHIA | A key leader in the psychiatric community has rejected the idea of altering the name of a traumatic condition affecting an estimated tens of thousands of U.S. combat veterans -- a move that effectively blocks growing efforts… Continue reading
May 09 Watch For Cambodian Street Kids, Friends International Works to Redefine Normal For Cambodian Street Kids, Friends International Works to Redefine Normal… Continue watching
May 08 Watch The Best and Worst Places to Be a Mom Norway is the healthiest country in the world to be a mother, according to a new report released by the international non-profit Save the Children. The worst: West Africa's Niger. Gwen Ifill and Save the Children President Carolyn Miles discuss… Continue watching
May 08 Watch Will Obesity Reverse Rise in U.S. Life Expectancy? Public health experts have long warned of a growing obesity epidemic in America. This week, the Institute of Medicine and others launched a major campaign in hopes of curbing the problem. Ray Suarez and Dr. Francis Collins of the National… Continue watching
May 08 Obesity in America: By the Numbers Collectively, the numbers spell out a familiar story. American adults are expanding by the year, along with their children and health care costs. Depressing? Yes. Easy to tune out? Even more so. In isolation, the statistics are a little… Continue reading
May 08 'Weight of the Nation': U.S. Obesity Crisis Tackled in HBO Special EmbedVideo(3341, 514, 320); They're the new minority in the United States: "healthy" waistlines. With a third of the nation's adults weighing in as overweight and another third registering as "obese," America's collective eating disorder has relegated those with… Continue reading
May 08 Watch Conversation: Filming "The Weight of the Nation" John Hoffman, executive producer of HBO's "Weight of the Nation" series, talks obesity. Continue watching