Sep 27 Survey: Health Care Premiums Soar for Many Employees As the economy sputters and many firms struggle to keep their health benefits, the news officially became even bleaker on Tuesday: Premiums for employer-sponsored health coverage shot up 9 percent last year. That's significantly more than the average increase… Continue reading
Sep 26 Watch Survey: Health Care Premiums Soar A new survey shows that premiums for employer-based health care went way up last year. Continue watching
Sep 26 Rapid Testing Sharply Cuts HIV Patient Dropout Rate HIV clinic in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every time an HIV clinic tells a patient to come back for more testing or for laboratory results there is a risk the patient will never return. This happens so frequently… Continue reading
Sep 23 ‘Contagion’ Reality Check: CDC Experts Explore Some of the Film’s Scenarios Scene from the movie "Contagion." Photo from Warner Bros. Ent. The box-office hit "Contagion," a movie about a lethal airborne virus that kills within days, is still a top dramatic draw going into the weekend. The film has drawn interest… Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch Galveston Aims to Build a Healthier City After Ike’s Wave of Destruction Three years after Hurricane Ike hit in 2008, Galveston is still rebuilding. But this time area residents want to make the city a healthier place to live. Betty Ann Bowser reports. Continue watching
Sep 22 Girl Effect: Helping Poor Girls Makes Economic Sense By Hari Sreenivasan Infographic and Poster from Girl Effect report Each teenage mother in India can lose up to $100,000 in potential income over her lifetime. Multiply that by the number of teenage mothers in India and… Continue reading
Sep 22 The Mixed Blessings of Hurricanes Growing up on the east coast in Tidewater, Va., meant beautiful white sand beaches, learning to swim as you learned to walk, and fantastic summers in the sun. But it also meant hurricanes. As a child, I remember vividly… Continue reading
Sep 21 India’s Bias for Boys By Talea Miller In India, aborting a fetus based on its sex is illegal, but the practice is common due to a societal preference for boys. Continue reading
Sep 21 Galveston: Healthier After Disaster? By Jason Kane Three years after devastation from Hurricane Ike, Galveston, Tex., officials are determined to build the island back stronger -- and healthier -- than ever before. Continue reading