Feb 27 Insurers Open Stores To Peddle Health Plans By Michelle Andrews One of the new Blue and Blue Shield stores in Florida. Photo courtesy of Kaiser Health News. When Ronda Austin's employer stopped offering health coverage last spring, she bought an individual policy from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida. Continue reading
Feb 23 Are Oscars Nominees' Health Plots Accurate or Malpractice? Open wide, Oscar, it's time for a check-up. Posture and sheen look good, as usual. Sword appears sharp, base solid. But with the Academy Awards slated for Sunday, we decided to bring in a medical doctor to examine the… Continue reading
Feb 22 New Weight Loss Pill Gets Second Look from FDA, Stirring Old Fears Photo by J.B. Reed/Bloomberg via Getty Images Update: 6:55 p.m. ET | An independent panel of medical experts voted 20-2 to recommend FDA approval of Qnexa. Agency officials will now deliberate and issue a final ruling later this… Continue reading
Feb 22 Are Oscars Nominees' Health Plots Accurate or Malpractice? By Video DA Open wide, Oscar, it's time for your check-up. With the Academy Awards slated for Sunday, we've brought in a medical doctor to examine the accuracy of the health themes in some of the year's top films. Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch News Wrap: Supreme Court to Consider Affirmative Action Challenge In other news Tuesday, the Supreme Court agreed to revisit affirmative action in college admissions. A white student who was denied entry at the University of Texas in 2008 filed the case, calling the school's race-conscious policy unconstitutional. Also, federal… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch India Close to Eradicating Polio, But Challenges Still Remain India Close to Being Polio-free, But Challenges Still Remain… Continue watching
Feb 20 A Look at the World's 'Forgotten' Diseases Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discuss some of the often neglected diseases worldwide and why we should be paying attention… Continue reading
Feb 20 Watch The World's Forgotten Diseases Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention discuss some of the often neglected diseases worldwide and why we should be paying attention… Continue watching
Feb 20 Ind. Measles Outbreak, Linked to Super Bowl, Raises Vaccination Concerns Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images The crowds and teams may have long departed Indiana after Super Bowl XLVI, but something else has lingered: an outbreak of measles. Two days before the big game, two people infected with the virus… Continue reading
Feb 16 Chronic Malnutrition a 'Hidden Crisis' By Larisa Epatko About 2 million children who are malnourished die each year worldwide, according to a United Nations estimate. Yet aid organizations say it's tough to attract attention to the issue of chronic malnutrition in a preventative way -- before it becomes… Continue reading