Mar 24 Slide Show: Tuberculosis a Silent Killer By Talea Miller Health officials are drawing attention to the 22 countries that contribute 80 percent of the global burden of tuberculosis on March 24, designated World TB Day. Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease that can be transmitted through the air, making… Continue reading
Mar 24 Tuberculosis a Silent Killer Around the Globe By Talea Miller Thursday is World TB Day, bringing attention to the disease that kills an estimated 1.7 million people each year. Photographers look at the toll of the disease in Brazil, Afghanistan and India. Continue reading
Mar 24 South Africa Still Struggling with Deadly TB-HIV Epidemic By Ray Suarez Cape Town, South Africa (Photo courtesy United Nations) Thursday is World Tuberculosis Day. Ray Suarez reported on the toll of the deadly airborne disease in South Africa in 2009 as one of his first stories with the global health unit. Continue reading
Mar 24 Workers at Nuclear Plant Hospitalized, Radiation in Tokyo’s Water Stokes Fears By News Desk Updated 4:30 p.m. ET New photos of the so-called "Fukushima 50" -- the workers who have stayed behind to help rescue a damaged nuclear plant have been made available this week. (Workers at the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Continue reading
Mar 23 Health Care Reform: You Asked, We Found Answers On Monday, we asked for your questions on health care reform. It's been one year since the law passed, and polls show that many Americans say they're still confused about the law. We put your questions before… Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch Political Checklist: Health Reform’s Uncertain Future and Conflict in Libya Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and David Chalian examine health care reform one year later. Continue watching
Mar 23 Political Checklist: Health Reform’s Uncertain Future and Obama’s Strategy in Libya EmbedVideo(177, 514, 320); The Political Checklist is back this week, and Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff and David Chalian look into how public opinion regarding President Obama's signature health insurance reform law is reverberating in American politics one… Continue reading
Mar 23 Health Care Reform Turns One President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 23, 2010. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. A lot has happened in the year since President Obama signed health reform into law. Republicans won big in… Continue reading
Mar 22 Water Woes: Japan, Haiti and Kenya Among World’s Trouble Spots By Larisa Epatko In northeastern Japan, where people are still sifting through wreckage from the March 11 tsunami, more than a million households are without water. While in Haiti, health workers are scrambling to stave off a cholera epidemic. Still, in other parts… Continue reading
Mar 21 One Year Into Health Reform, What Do You Want to Know? By Lea Winerman Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of health care reform -- and, it seems, Americans are as confused as ever about the law. A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey PDF found that 52 percent of people say they don't… Continue reading