May 26 Watch Are Nurse Practitioners the Solution to Shortage of Primary-Care Doctors? As more Americans become covered by health insurance, the need for primary care is on the rise, but there is a shortage of primary-care physicians. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports from Philadelphia on the growing role of nurse practitioners… Continue watching
May 26 In Colorado, Health Care Law Creates Nurse-Run Clinic Nurse practitioner Emily Burke examines a patient at Sheridan Health Services in Sheridan, Colorado. In a low-income suburb of Denver, Erica Schwartz and her small staff of advanced practice nurses have set up their own primary care facility. Here,… Continue reading
May 26 GOP Seeks to Move Budget Debate Beyond Medicare Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., leave a news conference at the Capitol addressing the Republican budget proposal. Photo By Tom Williams/Roll Call. One day after seeing an electoral rebuke to the… Continue reading
May 25 Study: 1 in 5 Young Adults Suffers From Hypertension If you're a young adult, chances are high blood pressure isn't high on your list of things to worry about. But a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests maybe it… Continue reading
May 24 Political Debate Over Accountable Care Organizations Heats Up By Betty Ann Bowser Ever since the federal government rolled out its proposed rules for setting up Accountable Care Organizations in March, it's been one piece of bad news after another for the Obama administration. Now comes another blow on the political… Continue reading
May 23 Watch Pakistani Program Offers Affordable Health Insurance to Help Urban Poor Combating Poverty in Pakistan by Offering Health Insurance… Continue watching
May 23 How to Improve Medical Care? Doctors’ Group Counts the Ways A MRI of a spine is shown above. Spinal imaging is part of the National Physcians Alliance recommendations. Photo by Flickr user Cory Doctorow. It might not be "Late Show" material, but the National Physicians Alliance is hoping its… Continue reading
May 23 Audit Finds Widespread Use Of Anti-Psychotic Drugs In Nursing Homes‎ As the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Daniel Levinson is the person at the federal government who's in charge of protecting the integrity of programs like Medicare and Medicaid. That… Continue reading
May 20 Top Five Global Health Stories: Docters in Bahrain Report Abuse, Paralyzed Man Stands By Talea Miller Bahrain doctors treat protestors in February. AFP/Getty photo. Doctors Detained in Bahrain Report Abuse More than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for their role in aiding protestors, say human… Continue reading
May 19 Study: Electrical Stimulation in Spine Helps Paraplegic Man Stand Again By Talea Miller For the first time, a man completely paralyzed from the chest down regained the ability to take several steps with support and stand on his own thanks to electric stimulation to his spinal cord, new research published in the Lancet… Continue reading