Nov 16 'Espresso' Machine of TB Tests Cuts Diagnosis Time By Talea Miller A new machine that can detect multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in record time may revolutionize treatment. Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch At Tipping Point of Dental Pain, A Mother Makes Tough Choices A trip to the dentist means a two-hour flight across southern Alaska for Eva Malvich. Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Millions of Americans Face Life Without Dental Care The lack of access to dental care is a problem that affects millions of Americans. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports. Continue watching
Nov 15 One Mother's Story of Teen Pregnancy in Nicaragua By Paul Solman MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Marling del Socorro Valverdi balances a restless baby on her hip as she tries to attach yards of red and green crepe paper to a drab newsprint pinata shell. In the Valverdi family, pinata sales equal dinner… Continue reading
Nov 14 In Alaska, Sesame Chicken With a Side of Perspective Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports in Toksook Bay, Alaska. Somehow sesame chicken is never going to be quite the same ... and it's all because of Alaska. Trust me. Our health unit recently went there to do a… Continue reading
Nov 14 Bringing Dental Relief for Appalachia's Poorest EmbedVideo(1952, 514, 320); GRUNDY, Va. -- It felt like a sustained jackhammer to the jaw. A pounding, pulsing dental pain that started as a dull ache in some rotten teeth and eventually spread to Bobby Horn's entire… Continue reading
Nov 14 Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Health Reform Challenge By Jason Kane The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law. As Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal described in a post last week, the court was asked to consider five key… Continue reading
Nov 14 Supreme Court to Review Health Reform Law: 5 Things to Watch By Marcia Coyle Updated, Nov. 14 The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will review the constitutionality of the health reform law on four key points. Original Post, Nov. 10 The Supreme Court now has six petitions asking the justices to review… Continue reading
Nov 11 Watch Nicaragua Combats Pneumonia in Country's Young Via New Vaccine Each year, pneumonia kills more children around the world than malaria, measles and HIV combined. Ray Suarez reports from Nicaragua on efforts to combat the lung infection, which is the leading killer of children under the age of five. Continue watching
Nov 11 Is Top-Dollar Treatment Getting Americans the Best Health Care in the World? A new report from the Commonwealth Fund painted a pretty dismal picture of the American health care industry this week. But if you don't have time to read the whole thing, these four graphics -- based on a… Continue reading