Aug 15 Donations for East Africa Famine Victims Falling Short By Talea Miller A malnourished refugee child in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now. But the famine hitting the Horn… Continue reading
Aug 12 Global Health Week in Tweets By Talea Miller 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 "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify… Continue reading
Aug 12 Americans Can't Be Forced to Buy Insurance, 11th Circuit Rules Challenges to the legality of the health reform bill signed into law by President Obama last year are moving closer to the Supreme Court. White House Flickr photo by Chuck Kennedy The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta… Continue reading
Aug 12 In Senegal, a Movement to Reject Female Circumcision By Fred de Sam Lazaro Watch the full episode. See more Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. This segment originally aired on PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly. The practice of "female circumcision" is… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch Top Health Reform Player Berwick's Overhaul Vision Draws Praise, Rebuke As a leading player in the implementation of President Obama's health reform law, Donald Berwick has come under fire for his vision of fundamental changes to the U.S. health care system. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the controversy… Continue watching
Aug 11 Berwick Recess Appointment Part of a 'Fundamentally Broken' System Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Dr. Donald M. Berwick. It's a name as likely to incite a political brawl in Washington as it is to attract a blank stare almost anywhere else. But if most Americans haven't… Continue reading
Aug 11 Secretary Sebelius Answers Your Questions on Health Insurance Exchanges Photo by Roll Call/Getty Images By 2014, the health insurance market will be flooded with 30 million more Americans purchasing plans through "health insurance exchanges." Created by the reform law, these online marketplaces will make purchasing a health plan… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch New Movement in Senegal Rejects Female Circumcision Thousands of rural communities in Senegal have held rallies to end female circumcision. Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch Girl Up Campaign Helps Teens Empower Peers Around the Globe Girl Up, a United Nations Foundation campaign, is helping adolescent American girls make a difference in the lives of peers around the globe. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Aug 09 Tweeting Your Health Woes Could Help Fight Disease Photo by SAEED KHAN/AFP/Getty Images That "viral" metaphor for social media just got a little more bona fide. According to a recent slate of independent studies, Twitter can accurately track the spread of a virus or disease -- and… Continue reading