Mar 30 How Healthy Is Your County? A Few Miles Can Make a Big Difference By Dante Chinni What difference can a few miles make? It may be the difference between living a healthy life and struggling against a sea of health problems, according to a new study that ranks the relative health of counties. The study… Continue reading
Mar 30 Regulators Crack Down on Microfinance Industry in India By Fred de Sam Lazaro [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Kw7qSrW1Y] New rules aimed at regulating India's microfinance industry, whose spectacular growth and near collapse strongly echo the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, are set to take effect April 1. Neighboring Bangladesh's supreme court will also resume hearing an appeal… Continue reading
Mar 28 Reporter's Notebook: My Brush with Chinese Censorship By Jeffrey Kaye During our recently-concluded 11 day reporting trip in China, our work was relatively unimpeded. We had access to top officials, critics of the government, members of the public, and we worked without a government minder. Sure, as expected, various web… Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch North Korea, Normally Coping With Chronic Hunger, Faces Massive Food Shortage A UN report said more than 6 million people in North Korea urgently need food aid. Continue watching
Mar 25 Health Reform Headlines: Reform's One-Year Anniversary; Vermont House Passes Single-payer Bill The health reform law turned one this week, and opponents and proponents of the bill each used the occasion to advance their messages. Obama administration officials and health reform advocates fanned out across the country to promote the bill and… Continue reading
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