Nov 02 Painkiller 'Epidemic' Deepens in U.S. Doctors prescribed enough pain medication last year to partially numb every American adult around-the-clock for a month. So much of the stuff is now being handed out that lethal overdoses tripled in the past decade, according to a new… Continue reading
Nov 01 Underage Marriage Brings Dire Consequences for Nepal's Girls By Talea Miller About 51 percent of Nepalese marry as children, causing devastating consequences for young girls' health and well being. Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch For Some Patients, Drug Shortage Creates Life-and-Death Situation Concerns Rise Over Shortages of Prescription Drugs… Continue watching
Oct 31 Bio-Tech Breakthrough Could End Malaria Drug Shortages Wormwood plants growing in China. Photo by Flickr user Novartis AG. A synthetic biology breakthrough, achieved at laboratories in northern California, could expand access to malaria treatment around the globe beginning in 2012. Scientists at the University of California,… Continue reading
Oct 31 Obama Orders FDA to Zero In on Drug Shortage Crisis President Obama signs an Executive Order directing the Food and Drug Administration to take action to help prevent and reduce prescription drug shortages on Oct. 31, 2011. Photo by Kristoffer Tripplaar-Pool/Getty Images. President Obama called for swift government action… Continue reading
Oct 31 U.N. Refugee Chief: 'Terrible' to Know Somalis Are Dying Out of Reach By Larisa Epatko The humanitarian crisis in Somalia continues to deepen by the day. A recent spate of kidnappings of relief workers is preventing aid from reaching those most in need, and now troops from neighboring Kenya have entered Somalia to try to… Continue reading
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