Nov 23 Watch Frontline Examines Difficulty, Importance of End-of-Life Decisions The latest Frontline -- airing Tuesday on many PBS stations -- confronts the complicated end-of-life decisions that patients, families and doctors must face. This excerpt shows the tough decision-making surrounding one patient's grim prognosis at the Mount Sinai Medical Center… Continue watching
Nov 23 Preventing Mother to Child HIV Transmission in Mozambique By Talea Miller More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year. Risk of transmission can be reduced to less than 2 percent through prevention programs, raising hope that this type of transmission can be nearly eliminated… Continue reading
Nov 23 Preview: Sustaining Mozambique’s HIV/AIDS Fight By Talea Miller One out of every eight adults living in Mozambique is HIV positive, and most of them are on HIV medications called antiretrovirals. These pills are life-saving for people around the world infected with HIV, but the United States and other… Continue reading
Nov 23 Watch High Costs of HIV Medication Cause ‘Terrible Dilemma’ in Mozambique In Mozambique, where 1 in 8 adults is living with HIV, the number of patients on antiretroviral drugs has expanded thanks to international AIDS funding, but a debate is emerging over whether foreign donors can continue to fund an ever-expanding… Continue watching
Nov 22 Under New Rules, Insurers Will Spend More on Patient Care Beginning next year, health insurers will have to follow a new set of rules that details how much money they must spend on patients' medical care, according to guidelines the Obama administration released Monday. The rules are part of… Continue reading
Nov 22 Preview: Mozambique’s Growth Not Benefitting Its Poorest By Ray Suarez Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, grappling with high rates of poverty, HIV and malnutrition. But this coastal nation is also one of sub-Saharan Africa's star performers, posting steady economic growth year after year. We explore this dichotomy… Continue reading
Nov 22 Watch In Mozambique, Signs of Growth Seen Amid Rampant Poverty New international investment and steady growth have made Mozambique a promising African economy, but little of that change has trickled down to the citizens, many of whom still struggle to afford staple foods.In the first of three reports, Ray Suarez… Continue watching
Nov 19 Darvocet, Darvon Painkillers Pulled From Market at FDA’s Request The makers of the painkillers Darvon and Darvocet on Friday pulled the drugs from the U.S. market at the Food and Drug Administration's request. The FDA made the move after new data showed that propoxyphene, the active ingredient in… Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch In California, Facing Down a Family Physician Shortage In the latest in a series on health reform, Betty Ann Bowser reports from California on what's being done to inspire medical students to address a shortage of primary care doctors. Continue watching
Nov 18 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Cholera Crossing Borders, Organ Traffickers Targeting Slums By Talea Miller A Ministry of Health body-collection team picks up cholera victims in Haiti. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Cholera Spreads to DR, Miami Cases of cholera have been confirmed in two people in the Dominican Republic and in Miami. Both… Continue reading