Feb 07 Testing New Tools to Quash Bed Bugs Bed bugs are survivors. They grow as large as ladybugs and can live a year without eating. They move from room to room and leave itchy, bloody welts on skin when they bite. And they wreak havoc on… Continue reading
Feb 07 From the Field: Violence Against Women in Guatemala By Talea Miller At the age of 15, Maria-Isabel Veliz was kidnapped, raped and murdered. She was working at a boutique in Guatemala City when she was abducted and forced into a van with duct tape over her mouth. She was never seen… Continue reading
Feb 04 Health Reform Watch: In Courts and Congress, Health Reform Faces Challengers By Lea Winerman The health reform law faced major challenges this week in the courts and in Congress. The big news of came Monday in Florida, when U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson became the second judge to declare the law's individual mandate… Continue reading
Feb 04 What If Health Reform Had No Mandate? Politicians, Experts Weigh In In the wake of a second ruling from a federal judge this week who found the insurance mandate in the health reform law to be unconstitutional, there's a growing amount of chatter in the health policy world about whether… Continue reading
Feb 04 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Aid to Egypt, Obesity and Cancer By Talea Miller Backers of Egyptian President Mubarak on the streets of Cairo. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images U.S. Aid to Egypt in Question Massive demonstrations against Egypt's President Mubarak and a deteriorating security situation in the streets of Cairo have thrown the future of… Continue reading
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