Aug 03 Haiti Braces for Storm, Cholera Surge By Talea Miller Cholera patient in Haiti. Photo by American Red Cross. A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic that… Continue reading
Aug 03 'Made in India' Explores the Business of Surrogacy, From America to India From the film, "Made in India," by Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha. On Thursday's NewsHour, we feature an excerpt of the film "Made in India," which documents the journey of an infertile American couple, an Indian surrogate and… Continue reading
Aug 02 Health Insurance Exchange 101 EmbedVideo(1155, 514, 320); It seems like a simple idea: create new marketplaces called "exchanges" where consumers can comparison shop for health insurance, sort of like shopping online for a hotel room or airline ticket. But, like almost everything… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch USAID Chief: Famine in Somalia 'Worse Than You Can Imagine' In a new effort to alleviate the suffering in famine-stricken Eastern Africa, the U.S. government eased its restrictions on providing aid to Somalia -- aimed at sanctioning al-Shabab -- in hopes of getting more food to starving people. Margret Warner… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch Utah's Health Insurance Experiment Built Around Small Businesses Under the federal health care reform law, all states will be required to set up a health insurance exchange starting in 2014. Betty Ann Bowser reports on one state that is ahead of the game, and how the new system… Continue watching
Aug 02 Questions About Health Insurance Exchanges? Ask Secretary Sebelius On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour broadcast, we heard from health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser about Utah's health insurance exchange. Online, we posed our own questions to Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News. But now is your chance to… Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch Health Insurance Exchange 101 Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News talks with Hari Sreenivasan. Continue watching
Aug 01 Five Maternal Health Innovations That Could Save Lives Prenant woman in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every two minutes, somewhere around the world a woman dies in childbirth. Often, a lack of access to care, technology or medications causes these fatal complications. In an effort to reduce… Continue reading
Aug 01 Birth Control Will Soon Be Co-Pay Free for Most U.S. Women Updated 6 p.m. ET | In just one year, the price tag for birth control, yearly check-ups, breastfeeding support and domestic-violence screening will virtually disappear for many American women. Under new guidelines issued Monday by the Department of… Continue reading
Jul 29 Watch Famine, Strife in Somalia an 'Unfolding Tragedy' Instability in Somalia Hampers Efforts to Aid Famine 'Tragedy'… Continue watching