Mar 13 Death Toll Climbs in Japan as Nuclear Threat Grows By News Desk People evacuate by boat down a road flooded by tsunami waves in the Japanese city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture on Saturday, a day after a massive quake and tsunami hit the region. Photo by Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images The death… Continue reading
Mar 11 Obama Administration Grants Maine Health Reform Waiver In the news this week: Making health reform more flexible for states. On Wednesday, the federal government gave Maine a waiver good through 2013 that will exempt the state from enforcing part of the health reform law --… Continue reading
Mar 11 Young Athletes' Deaths Put New Focus on Heart Defects Last Thursday, 16-year-old Wes Leonard died shortly after scoring the game-winning shot at his high school basketball game in Michigan. An autopsy found that he had an enlarged heart. Just two days later in Colorado, 17-year-old Matthew Hammerdorfer… Continue reading
Mar 10 U.N. Report: Closing Gender Gap is Good for Food Security Closing the gender gap could increase agricultural yield and help address food security in starving countries, according to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report released Monday, "The State of Food and Agriculture." "We know that women deserve the… Continue reading
Mar 09 NewsHour Connect: Mass. Community Reacts to Living Near Wind Turbines Wind turbines, used around the world to provide energy, are often seen grouped together in wind farms in rural parts of Iowa, Texas and Nebraska. But as more towns build turbines to power their own electric grids, communities are reacting… Continue reading
Mar 09 Guatemala's Archbishop Speaks on Family Planning, Violence Against Women By Talea Miller Guatemala's Archbishop Oscar Julio Vian Morales calls for more education about natural family planning, and encourages Guatemala's men to change their attitudes towards women. Continue reading
Mar 08 Diabetes Data Reflect Health, Income and Socio-Economic Divides Living a healthy lifestyle is not easy in the U.S.; keeping fit can be tough in the land of supersizes and never-ending pasta bowls. But the health problems aren't the same everywhere, and in a paper released Tuesday, the Centers… Continue reading
Mar 08 'Diabetes Belt' Encircles Southern U.S. By Lea Winerman Nearly 26 million people in the United States have diabetes, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control estimate, and that number could expand to one-third of the U.S. population by 2050 if obesity and other trends continue. The… Continue reading
Mar 08 Buses Targeted by Guatemala City Gangs Bus drivers and their assistants have become frequent targets of extortion, threats and violent crimes in Guatemala City. Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch 'Epicenter of Violence': Guatemala Combats Brutality Toward Women Guatemala has become an epicenter of violence in Central America, and violence against women in particular has hit record levels. Ray Suarez and the NewsHour's Global Health Unit have the first of two reports from Guatemala with a look at… Continue watching