Jan 13 Global Health Week in Tweets Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. [View the story "Global Health Week in Tweets " on Storify]… Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch Kids and Cancer: Why Pediatric Cancer Cure Rates Have Improved So Much Four decades ago, President Nixon signed a law that would change the way cancer research was funded in an effort to develop better treatments and cure more patients. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser explores the positive developments pediatric cancer research… Continue watching
Jan 12 On Second Anniversary of Earthquake, Cholera Continues to Cripple Haiti By Cat Wise With more than 7,000 dead and half a million people sickened, a U.N. health agency is calling the cholera outbreak in Haiti "one of the largest epidemics of the disease in modern history to affect a single country."… Continue reading
Jan 12 Share Your Photos: Childhood Cancer Awareness Photos featured on PBS NewsHour's Childhood Cancer Awareness Pinterest Board. EDIT We are no longer accepting submissions for this board at this time. Thanks to all who answered and shared their stories. The PBS NewsHour's health unit has been… Continue reading
Jan 11 Teens Dealing with Cancer Find an Ally in The Who’s Daltrey Alexis Reilly, 22, at a coffee shop near her home in Los Gatos, Calif. The teen drama at the end of Alexis Reilly's freshman year of high school ran deeper than awkward dates or bad friends. It was more… Continue reading
Jan 11 Two Years Later, Haitian Amputees Still Have a Long Way to Go Fymée Diogene and Balnave Ulysee both lost legs in the 2010 earthquake. Photo by William Daniels/Handicap International. Two years ago, a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed more than 200,000 people and caused injuries that required amputations for another 4,000… Continue reading
Jan 10 In Their 90s, Brothers Still Going for Olympic Gold EmbedVideo(2382, 514, 320); These are the things you should know about Bradford Tatum: In the past several years, he's turned 91, overcome a life-threatening bout with colorectal cancer and won more gold medals in the Olympics than he… Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch What’s Slowing Down Americans’ Health Care Spending? A new government report shows that the rise in health care spending slowed for the second consecutive year. Meanwhile, health insurance premiums continue to climb as workers pay an ever-growing share of the cost. Ray Suarez discusses what's behind these… Continue watching
Jan 09 Global Health Week in Tweets There was a lot of news in the world of health and development last week. Check out the NewsHour global health unit's highlights from the Twitterverse. [View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]… Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch In Their 90s, D.C. Brothers Still Going for Olympic Gold The Tatum brothers have long dominated their peers at the annual National Senior Games. Continue watching