Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? By Paul Solman Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I would really like… Continue reading
Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch In a Town Called Grundy, Some Dental Relief for Appalachia’s Poorest Hundreds of dentists travel to Grundy, Va., to help the uninsured each fall. Continue watching
Nov 09 Somali Refugees Seek ‘New Normal’ in Ethiopian Camp Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other… Continue reading
Nov 08 Russia’s Shrinking Population Mars Putin’s Superpower Ambitions By Talea Miller Despite Vladimir Putin's efforts to encourage population growth in Russia, women have too few children and Russian men are dying young. Continue reading
Nov 08 A Solution to Rural Alaska’s Dental Problems? We met dental health aide therapist student Jana Schuerch at the Yuut Elitnaurviat Dental Training Clinic in Bethel, Alaska. Schuerch, 28, lights up when she tells us about her fiancé, Charlie, and their three young children living in… Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch A New Solution to Alaska’s Rural Dental Problems? Jana Schurech is a dental health aide therapist student in Bethel, Alaska. Continue watching
Nov 04 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. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]… Continue reading
Nov 04 Army General Calls for Changing Name of PTSD By Dan Sagalyn Some members of the Army hope that renaming Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, as an injury will encourage more soldiers to seek help. Continue reading
Nov 04 Rewriting the Textbook on Disease Imagine if diabetes could be peeled apart -- if a doctor could look at test results and instantly see the genetic and environmental factors that triggered and fueled the disease. Looking at a patient's medical history and genomic information, it… Continue reading