Oct 28 Snapshot: A Day in Toksook Bay, Alaska By Sarah Clune "It's not the end of the world," David Lefner told us, "but you can see it from here." That was our greeting as we stepped off our flight in Bethel, Alaska. It was our last stop before boarding the… Continue reading
Oct 28 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
Oct 27 Watch World’s Population Teeters on the Edge of 7 Billion: Now What? World's Population Teeters on the Edge of 7 Billion -- Now What?… Continue watching
Oct 27 Military Photographer: ‘The Medic Could Not Get There Fast Enough’ Generations of Stacy Pearsall's family have worn uniforms: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. So it probably wasn't much of surprise when she asked her parents to join the Air Force at the age of 17. She is a… Continue reading
Oct 27 Slide Show: Life in Nicaragua, Surviving on Less than $2 a Day By Talea Miller The NewsHour's global health unit is in Nicaragua this week reporting on the upcoming presidential election and efforts to provide a new life-saving vaccine to infants. Both of these stories are playing out against a back drop of intense… Continue reading
Oct 27 Toksook Bay, Alaska By Sarah Clune A collection of photos from The NewsHour's trip to Toksook Bay in October, 2011. Continue reading
Oct 26 Market Deal Brings Life-Saving Vaccine to Poor Countries By Ray Suarez A young child receives the new pneumococcal vaccine in Nicaragua. Any parent knows the scene very well: a practitioner tears open the packaging on a new syringe, pierces the top of a medicine bottle and draws just the right amount… Continue reading
Oct 26 Why Do Some People Live Past 100? Genome May Hold Clues to Longevity Photo by Flickr user the Waltherfamily. Scientists call them supercontrols: people who have lived past 100, and have somehow evaded the age-related diseases most can't escape after a century of life, such as heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's… Continue reading
Oct 26 Life in Nicaragua, Living on Less than $2 a Day By Talea Miller Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, and 76 percent of the population lives on less than $2 a day. Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Boys, Young Men Should Get HPV Vaccine, CDC Panel Says A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel has recommended for the first time that boys and young men get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, known as HPV, to protect them from cancers resulting from sexual activity. Jeffrey Brown discusses… Continue watching