Feb 15 Watch Colorado Clinic Helps Diabetics Avoid Problems With 1-Stop Coordinated Care Betty Ann Bowser reports on a Colorado clinic that helps patients tackle the symptoms of diabetes before the disease's side effects become major health issues. Continue watching
Feb 15 Reporter's Notebook: The Family Planning Frontier in Guatemala By Ray Suarez A week of travel in Guatemala is a feast for the eyes: stunning volcanic peaks covered in a carpet of green -- cabbages, coffee, melons, bananas growing on impossibly steep hillsides -- and people working hard to wrestle a living… Continue reading
Feb 11 Health Reform Watch: De-funding Efforts Begin, Berwick on the Hill GOP De-funding Effort to Start Next Week Republican lawmakers said Wednesday that they plan to use a spending bill that they'll bring to the House floor next week in their first effort to de-fund the health reform law. Continue reading
Feb 10 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Vatican to Host AIDS Conference Vatican to Host Aids Conference The Vatican has announced plans to host an international conference at the end of May focusing on AIDS prevention and care. Last fall, Pope Benedict XVI grabbed headlines when he said during an… Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch 'Practice-Changing' Cancer Study Shows Lymph Node Surgery May Be Unnecessary A decades-old treatment for breast cancer does not necessarily improve survival rates in women with early stage cancer, according to a study released this week. Gwen Ifill speaks with co-author Dr. Monica Morrow, a surgical oncologist at New York's Memorial… Continue watching
Feb 09 In Wake of Tucson Shootings, Program Tries to Catch, Treat Psychosis Early A decision made by California voters six years ago may well have a bearing on the mental health issues raised by the shooting spree in Tucson, Ariz. Californians decided in 2004 to impose an extra 1 percent income tax for… Continue reading
Feb 09 'Let's Move' Campaign Turns One, Forgoes Cake One year ago today, first lady Michelle Obama sat down with the NewsHour's Jim Lehrer to discuss the launch of her new "Let's Move" campaign to tackle childhood obesity. Photo at right: Michelle Obama at a "Let's Move"… Continue reading
Feb 09 From the Field: Opening Horizons for Guatemala's Girls By Talea Miller ANTIGUA, Guatemala-- For girls growing up in rural Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, marry by 15, and give birth for the first time while still a teenager. About 60 percent of school-aged… Continue reading
Feb 09 Watch California Program Stresses Early Detection, Treatment of Mental Illness Spencer Michels reports on a California organization working to identify mental illness in young people before their problems become worse. Continue watching
Feb 08 Funding Shortage Threatens AIDS Drug Programs For the past year, William Kibler has relied on Florida's AIDS Drug Assistance Program to help provide the medicine he needs to stay healthy. Kibler, who has been HIV-positive for 24 years, lost his health insurance last year… Continue reading