Nov 11 Slide Show: Children in Nicaragua Up Against Difficult Odds By Talea Miller Eight-month-old Kesler is one of those infectiously happy babies who giggles at everything, even when his mother is scolding him for being too loud. Kesler lives with his mother, Delma Marina Sala, in a one-room, tin-roofed home outside of Managua,… Continue reading
Nov 11 Nicaragua's Children Face Difficult Odds By Talea Miller Nicaragua is one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries and children there are 44 percent more likely to die before the age of 5 than the regional average. Continue reading
Nov 10 Global Vaccine Campaign for Top Baby Killer 'Unprecedented' The number one killer of young children around the world isn't malaria, measles or HIV. It's pneumonia, and each year more children die from the lung infection than from those three, much higher-profile diseases combined. A global push to bring… Continue reading
Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? By Paul Solman Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I would really like… Continue reading
Nov 10 Why Are Medical Costs So High? Photo by Lilli Day / Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Thursday's query: Name: Curt Carpenter Question: I… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch In a Town Called Grundy, Some Dental Relief for Appalachia's Poorest Hundreds of dentists travel to Grundy, Va., to help the uninsured each fall. Continue watching
Nov 09 Somali Refugees Seek 'New Normal' in Ethiopian Camp Woman and child in malnutrition ward of hospital in Dolo Ado, Ethiopia. Photo by Nicole See. DOLO ADO, Ethiopia | The Hilaweyn refugee camp was set up just a few weeks ago and it already looks like any other… Continue reading
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