Jan 06 Journal: Study That Linked Vaccine and Autism Was ‘Fraudulent’ A study that linked the Measles, Mumps & Rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism was "fraudulent," and based on manipulated data and patient records, according to an investigation published Thursday in the British Medical Journal. It may be the final death… Continue reading
Jan 06 Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti By Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the… Continue reading
Jan 05 Watch News Wrap: Administration to Drop Mentions of End-of-Life Counseling In other news Wednesday, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling as a covered service under Medicare. Also, more rain is forecast for flood-ravaged Queensland, Australia, which is already coping with 80,000 square miles underwater and mass evacuations. Continue watching
Jan 05 Health Care Reform in 2011: What to Watch _pap_embeddable('news01s46d3q101c',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Republicans officially take control of the House today, and a vote to repeal the health care reform law is at the top of their agenda. But with President Obama in the White House… Continue reading
Jan 04 Welcome Home, Mr. President President and Mrs. Obama wave before boarding Air Force One as they depart from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, where they spent an 11-day family vacation. Photo by Cory Lum/Pool-Getty Images. After nearly two weeks out of… Continue reading
Jan 03 Video Dispatch: Haiti, a Year Later By Jeffrey Brown Jan. 12 will mark one year since a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti. The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown is reporting in Port-au-Prince and beyond this week on life in the country a year later, the recent cholera outbreak and more. Brown… Continue reading
Jan 03 Government Regulation Prompts New Look at ‘Death Panel’ Debate Updated Jan. 5, 2011, 5:33 p.m. White House officials say that the Obama administration will the remove controversial references to end-of-life counseling during annual Medicare check-ups from a new Medicare regulation, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The move… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch In Sudan, Possible New Country Poses Health Care System Challenges Less than 30 percent of people in southern Sudan have access to adequate health care. Widespread disease is threatening to overwhelm the African nation, where an upcoming secession referendum appears likely to create a new country. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye… Continue watching
Dec 31 Health Reform Watch: The Return of the End-of-Life Care Debate On the eve of 2011, the week started with the return of a phrase that you might not have thought about since 2009 -- "death panels." The New York Times reported over the weekend that, in a little-noticed government… Continue reading
Dec 30 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Flu Spikes in U.K., Cholera Threatens Haiti Rice Harvest Flu Cases Spike in U.K. The number of flu cases in the United Kingdom jumped nearly 45 percent in the past week, and flu-related deaths for the season reached 39. The British Department of Health says the… Continue reading