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
Aug 09 Global Rise in C-Sections Troubles Experts By Talea Miller C-section rates are skyrocketing in some of the world's poorest countries for reasons that may have little to do with the health of the mother or the child. Continue reading
Aug 08 Watch Telling the Story Behind Cancer In New Book, Doctor Explores History of Cancer… Continue watching
Aug 08 Can Seawater Solve Our Water Woes? By Talea Miller Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater into… Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch Indian Surrogacy Helps Lift Some Poor, but Raises Ethical Issues In India, parental surrogacy is often less complicated and costly than having a surrogate in the United States. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro explores the ethics of outsourcing surrogacy in the second of two reports about Indian women who… Continue watching
Aug 05 Mapping the Human Brain For this week's Science Nation, Miles O'Brien reports on a neuroanatomist who is using real brains to build three-dimensional brain maps. Neuroanatomist Jacopo Annese, director of the brain observatory at University of California, Los Angeles, collects and… Continue reading