Nov 15 One Mother’s Story of Teen Pregnancy in Nicaragua By Paul Solman MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Marling del Socorro Valverdi balances a restless baby on her hip as she tries to attach yards of red and green crepe paper to a drab newsprint pinata shell. In the Valverdi family, pinata sales equal dinner… Continue reading
Nov 14 In Alaska, Sesame Chicken With a Side of Perspective Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports in Toksook Bay, Alaska. Somehow sesame chicken is never going to be quite the same ... and it's all because of Alaska. Trust me. Our health unit recently went there to do a… Continue reading
Nov 14 Bringing Dental Relief for Appalachia’s Poorest EmbedVideo(1952, 514, 320); GRUNDY, Va. -- It felt like a sustained jackhammer to the jaw. A pounding, pulsing dental pain that started as a dull ache in some rotten teeth and eventually spread to Bobby Horn's entire… Continue reading
Nov 14 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Health Reform Challenge By Jason Kane The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law. As Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal described in a post last week, the court was asked to consider five key… Continue reading
Nov 14 Supreme Court to Review Health Reform Law: 5 Things to Watch By Marcia Coyle Updated, Nov. 14 The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law on four key points. Original Post, Nov. 10 The Supreme Court now has six petitions asking the justices to review… Continue reading
Nov 11 Watch Nicaragua Combats Pneumonia in Country’s Young Via New Vaccine Each year, pneumonia kills more children around the world than malaria, measles and HIV combined. Ray Suarez reports from Nicaragua on efforts to combat the lung infection, which is the leading killer of children under the age of five. Continue watching
Nov 11 Is Top-Dollar Treatment Getting Americans the Best Health Care in the World? A new report from the Commonwealth Fund painted a pretty dismal picture of the American health care industry this week. But if you don't have time to read the whole thing, these four graphics -- based on a… Continue reading
Nov 11 Slide Show: Children in Nicaragua Up Against Difficult Odds By Talea Miller Eight-month-old Kesler is one of those infectiously happy babies who giggles at everything, even when his mother is scolding him for being too loud. Kesler lives with his mother, Delma Marina Sala, in a one-room, tin-roofed home outside of Managua,… Continue reading
Nov 11 Nicaragua’s Children Face Difficult Odds By Talea Miller Nicaragua is one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries and children there are 44 percent more likely to die before the age of 5 than the regional average. Continue reading
Nov 10 Global Vaccine Campaign for Top Baby Killer ‘Unprecedented’ The number one killer of young children around the world isn't malaria, measles or HIV. It's pneumonia, and each year more children die from the lung infection than from those three, much higher-profile diseases combined. A global push to bring… Continue reading