May 30 Vatican Holds Line on Condoms at Conference By Talea Miller An AIDS conference hosted at the Vatican over the weekend quickly stamped out any lingering speculation that the Church might shift or broaden its policy against use of condoms to protect from HIV. Continue reading
May 27 Watch Study: 'Good' Cholesterol-Boosting Drug Fails to Reduce Heart Attacks, Strokes Study: Boosting 'Good' Cholesterol Does Little to Prevent Heart Attacks… Continue watching
May 27 Watch Catholic Church Looks to Lead Conversation on Combating HIV/AIDS Vatican Looks to Lead Conversation on Combating HIV/AIDS… Continue watching
May 27 Health Reform Headlines: Medicaid Support, Vermont's Universal Health Care Bill Photo by Alan Bedenko/Buffalo Pundit via Flickr Parties Debate Whether Hochul's Win in N.Y. is Referendum on Ryan Plan Democrat Kathy Hochul's electoral coup in a reliably conservative New York district Tuesday sent shockwaves through both parties this… Continue reading
May 27 Vatican Hosts AIDS Meeting In Wake Of Condom Controversy By Talea Miller The NewsHour's global health unit is in Rome this week to report on a two-day conference being hosted by the Vatican on the global fight against AIDS. The meeting was prompted in part by confusion over the pope's recent comments… Continue reading
May 27 Watch Vatican Holding Conference on AIDS Ray Suarez reports from the Vatican on the debate over HIV prevention. Continue watching
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