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
Nov 03 Suarez: When Is a Democracy 'Good Enough?' By Ray Suarez Watch a preview of the NewsHour's two upcoming pieces from Nicaragua below, and read Ray Suarez's reflections on the political situation in the country. Friday on the NewsHour, Ray looks at what's at stake in the upcoming Nicaraguan elections, and… Continue reading
Nov 02 Watch Virus Hunter Tracks New and Deadly Pathogens Around the Globe Stanford University biologist Nathan Wolfe is the founder and director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative and one of the world's more prominent virus hunters. Ray Suarez and Wolfe discuss his new book, "The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a… Continue watching
Nov 02 'Self-Destructing' Syringes Force Safer Injection Practices An auto-disable syringe is used to vaccinate a child in Kenya. Photo by UNICEF/Siegfried Modola. A nurse injects a patient with a syringe of antibiotics, reloads and moves on to the next patient in line. The syringe isn't sterilized, the… Continue reading