Jan 24 How Are Microwave Popcorn, Your Child's Immune System Connected? After a dreary winter day, you come home, slip out of your cozy waterproof coat and boots, and get the kids started on their homework. For a snack, you pop some popcorn in the microwave and order a pizza… Continue reading
Jan 24 Hospitals Seek To Attract Business With Patient Perks Photo by Getty Images. Credit card companies, airlines and hotels all have customer loyalty programs. Maybe it was only a matter of time before hospitals got in on the act. A growing number of hospitals are seeking to… Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch Food for 9 Billion: Turning the Population Tide in the Philippines Food for 9 Billion: Turning the Population Tide in the Philippines… Continue watching
Jan 20 Bird Flu Studies Temporarily Paused, Journals Announce Last year, questions were raised over how much research on the dangerous H5N1 virus -- or avian flu -- should be published in scientific journals. H1N1 is not yet transmissible among humans, though scientists have created a strain that… Continue reading
Jan 19 Watch Alternative Futures for U.S. Health Care, Scenario 4 A possible scenario for U.S. health care in 2025. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch Alternative Futures for U.S. Health Care, Scenario 3 A possible scenario for U.S. health care in 2025. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch Alternative Futures for U.S. Health Care, Scenario 2 A possible scenario for U.S. health care in 2025. Continue watching
Jan 19 Watch After Dropping out, Perry Alludes to Gingrich's Personal Troubles in Endorsement A possible scenario for U.S. health care in 2025. Continue watching
Jan 19 The High Cost of a Good Night's Sleep Annie Mokonya, a registered sleep technician, prepares Lauretta Martin for a sleep test at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., in December. Photo by Jenny Gold/Kaiser Health News. On a Monday night in December, Lauretta Martin, 47, visited… Continue reading
Jan 17 As New Cancer Treatments Emerge, an Old Question: 'What If?' Her name was Mary. She was a big, tall, red-headed drink of water with a face full of freckles and a smile that lit up a room the minute she walked in. She was a television producer at CBS… Continue reading