Feb 02 Health Care Repeal Fails in the Senate Republican efforts to repeal President Obama's signature health care reform law failed in the Senate Wednesday after supporters of repeal failed to garner the necessary 60 votes to overcome a procedural hurdle. An amendment offered by Sen. Mitch McConnell of… Continue reading
Feb 02 Watch As Health Reform Challenges Proceed, States Face Big Decisions After four conflicting court rulings on the health care reform law, Ray Suarez looks at what's next for states and patients with Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress and Thomas Miller of the American Enterprise Institute. Continue watching
Feb 02 Senate to Vote on Repeal of Health Care Reform Law People demonstrate against the health care reform bill last year in Washington. Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images. As most of official Washington keeps its eyes on the streets of Cairo, the Senate on Wednesday will continue its ongoing… Continue reading
Feb 01 Judge’s Health Care Ruling Sparks Political, Legal Debate A man protests the health care reform law at a rally in Washington, D.C., last year. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images. In the most sweeping denouncement of the law to date, a federal judge in Florida ruled… Continue reading
Jan 31 Watch News Wrap: Florida Judge Rules Health Reform Law Unconstitutional In other news Monday, a federal judge in Florida declared the health reform law enacted last year unconstitutional. Amid other rulings, the law is expected to be considered by the Supreme Court. Also, new federal guidelines called for roughly half… Continue watching
Jan 31 Florida Judge Strikes Down Obama Health Care Overhaul Updated 5:45 p.m. ET A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law - in its entirety - unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and… Continue reading
Jan 31 New Government Guidelines on Salt Intake: Are They Achievable? Federal guidelines on what Americans should -- and should not -- be eating were released on Monday. Among them: reduce daily salt intake to less than 2,300 milligrams; less than 1,500 mg if you're 51 and older, according the… Continue reading
Jan 28 Health Reform Headlines: Administration Lays Groundwork for Health Care Fight President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years." In a speech to Families USA, a consumer advocacy… Continue reading
Jan 28 ‘Emperor of All Maladies’ Author Mukherjee Answers Your Questions After our conversation with Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee about his new book, "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer," Dr. Mukherjee offered to answer some questions submitted by NewsHour viewers. _pap_embeddable('news01s478cq103f',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); We received many… Continue reading
Jan 28 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Global Fund Backlash, Foreign Aid Poll By Talea Miller Executive Director of the Global Fund Michel Kazatchkine marches with AIDS advocates at the 2010 International AIDS Conference. Global Fund Facing Corruption Backlash In the wake of press reports of flagrant corruption within some projects backed by the… Continue reading