Jul 21 Watch Soaring Food Costs Hit Indonesian Families’ Budgets The price of rice has risen 25 percent in less than a year in Indonesia, and more families have stunted or malnourished children as a results of soaring costs. Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch Birth Control Set to Become More Accessible Under Health Law This week, a panel from the Institute of Medicine recommended complete coverage for birth control and FDA-approved contraception for women. Jeffrey Brown discusses what services could be covered under the health care reform law signed by President Obama last year… Continue watching
Jul 20 Sperm ‘Cloak’ Could Be a Factor in Some Male Infertility Cases A missing protein may be the culprit in millions of cases of male infertility, according to a report released Wednesday in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Researchers at the University of California, Davis, discovered that the absence of a… Continue reading
Jul 20 Wanted: New Birth Control Choices for Men By Talea Miller Condoms or a vasectomy? Those are the choices for sexually active men who want to control their own fertility -- at least for now. These two options are currently the only available contraceptive methods for men, and both have well-documented… Continue reading
Jul 19 Women Should Get Free Birth Control, HHS-Backed Group Urges Birth-control pills are among the contraceptives that could be offered at no cost to Americans; Creative Commons photo by flickr.com/nateone All U.S. women should have access to free birth control as part of the 2010 health care reform… Continue reading
Jul 19 Slide Show: Indonesia’s Rise Not Lifting Everyone By Cat Wise Tuesday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on Indonesia's growing economy and its potential as a model for new democracies emerging from the Arab Spring. Watch that report online exclusively right now in our sneak peek, and for more… Continue reading
Jul 19 Indonesia Rising: A Country’s Evolution By Talea Miller Indonesia has 240 million people living on 6,000 islands, belonging to hundreds of ethnic groups. The evolving democracy continues to grow its economy. Continue reading
Jul 18 Secondhand Smoke Tied to Teen Hearing Trouble, Study Finds A new study found links between teens' exposure to secondhand smoke and hearing loss; file photo Most scientists agree secondhand smoke is bad for young lungs, but a new study shows it may also be going to the heads… Continue reading
Jul 18 Tsunami-Devastated Aceh an Epicenter of Mental Health Woes By Cat Wise Monday on the NewsHour, Ray Suarez reports on the lack of mental health services in Indonesia. Learn more about the problem in the Aceh region of Indonesia in the post below. Survivors mourn the dead after a large tsunami hit… Continue reading
Jul 18 ‘Cooking Matters’ Finds Recipe to Combat Food Insecurity By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Chef David Coder explains to group of parents and children how to prepare vegetables for a healthy stir fry. National non-profit Cooking Matters thinks it has found the recipe to reducing hunger and improving health for poor American families. Continue reading