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
Mar 18 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Nuclear Health Concerns, Transplant Patient Given HIV By Talea Miller Checking radiation levels in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture. Photo by Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images Nuclear Health Fears in Japan Japan raised the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant to five out of a seven level international scale… Continue reading
Mar 18 Supporters Gear Up for Health Reform's First Birthday Next Wednesday the health care reform law turns one, and the White House and other supporters of reform are planning a public relations push to mark the birthday. A coalition of advocacy groups will host 200 town-hall meetings… Continue reading
Mar 17 View From Tokyo: Japanese Try to Go on With Daily Life 'as Best They Can' By Larisa Epatko In Japan, foreign governments are evacuating their citizens from the area of the Fukushima nuclear plant, as the Japanese military works to douse the facility with tons of water to prevent a nuclear reactor meltdown. Continue reading
Mar 17 China Health Minister on Japan Crisis: 'Uncertainties' Loom on Radiation Risk The PBS NewsHour has a reporting team in China this week, working on health, economy and other stories for a series you'll see in coming weeks. But given the events in Japan, they are also monitoring the Chinese reaction to… Continue reading
Mar 17 Workers in China: 'Your iPhone Cost Us Our Health' By Jeffrey Kaye NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Kaye speaks with Wintek employees. We arrived at the factory in Suzhou, China, a few hours early, anxious not to miss our opportunity to speak with workers. Through a labor rights activist based in Hong Kong, NewsHour… Continue reading
Mar 16 Watch Whooping Cough Returns to California After Decades of Decline Joanne Faryon of KPBS in San Diego reports on the resurgence of whooping cough in California after decades of the disease's decline. Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch Japan's Radiation Leak: What Are Health Risks Locally, Globally? Foreign governments have advised citizens to leave northeastern Japan due to the threat of radiation. Gwen Ifill talks with nuclear engineer Lake Barrett and Columbia University's Norman Kleiman about the possible health consequences from the ongoing nuclear crisis. Continue watching
Mar 16 Watch Japan's Nuclear Crisis Raises Energy Questions in U.S. The nuclear crisis in Japan is raising questions in the U.S. about nuclear power. Continue watching
Mar 16 Judy Woodruff: Research, Health and the Spending Debate -- Part One For all their efforts, movie stars/Oscar hosts Anne Hathaway and James Franco weren't enough to lift the TV viewing audience for the Academy Awards this year over what they were in 2010. An average of 37 million Americans watched, versus… Continue reading