Jan 13 Watch Cancer Treatment: Are Personalized Molecular Profiles in Our Future? In the 40 years since the federal government promised to find a cure for cancer, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent and much has been learned. Still, the diseases continue to claim more lives each year. Health correspondent… Continue watching
Jan 13 Health Reform: Changing the Game for Pediatric Cancer Patients? By Jason Kane // It looked like someone was hurting Cooper Cochran. The bruises seemed to be everywhere when Cherie Trout picked up her two-year-old from daycare one day. Then came the fevers and distended stomach. And finally, test results: He had… Continue reading
Jan 13 Watch Health Reform: Changing the Game for Pediatric Cancer Patients? This is the story of Cooper Trout, a pediatric cancer patient. Continue watching
Jan 13 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. [View the story "Global Health Week in Tweets " on Storify]… Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch Kids and Cancer: Why Pediatric Cancer Cure Rates Have Improved So Much Four decades ago, President Nixon signed a law that would change the way cancer research was funded in an effort to develop better treatments and cure more patients. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser explores the positive developments pediatric cancer research… Continue watching
Jan 12 On Second Anniversary of Earthquake, Cholera Continues to Cripple Haiti By Cat Wise With more than 7,000 dead and half a million people sickened, a U.N. health agency is calling the cholera outbreak in Haiti "one of the largest epidemics of the disease in modern history to affect a single country."… Continue reading
Jan 12 Share Your Photos: Childhood Cancer Awareness Photos featured on PBS NewsHour's Childhood Cancer Awareness Pinterest Board. EDIT We are no longer accepting submissions for this board at this time. Thanks to all who answered and shared their stories. The PBS NewsHour's health unit has been… Continue reading
Jan 11 Teens Dealing with Cancer Find an Ally in The Who's Daltrey Alexis Reilly, 22, at a coffee shop near her home in Los Gatos, Calif. The teen drama at the end of Alexis Reilly's freshman year of high school ran deeper than awkward dates or bad friends. It was more… Continue reading
Jan 11 Two Years Later, Haitian Amputees Still Have a Long Way to Go Fymée Diogene and Balnave Ulysee both lost legs in the 2010 earthquake. Photo by William Daniels/Handicap International. Two years ago, a devastating earthquake in Haiti killed more than 200,000 people and caused injuries that required amputations for another 4,000… Continue reading
Jan 10 In Their 90s, Brothers Still Going for Olympic Gold EmbedVideo(2382, 514, 320); These are the things you should know about Bradford Tatum: In the past several years, he's turned 91, overcome a life-threatening bout with colorectal cancer and won more gold medals in the Olympics than he… Continue reading