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
Dec 29 Watch In India's Crowded Capital, Crisis Looms Over Limited Water In the first report of a year-long partnership with National Geographic magazine examining population issues, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from New Delhi, where rapid and unplanned population growth is exacerbating a shortage of water. Continue watching
Dec 29 Ray Suarez Responds to Critics of Cuba Series By Ray Suarez Cuba -- its past, present and future -- sits comfortably in a category, along with abortion, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and now global climate change, of difficult stories to tell. No matter what the reporter writes, he or she is going… Continue reading
Dec 29 India Dispatch: Thriving Development Spawns Water, Resource Worries By Fred de Sam Lazaro Boy drinks from water tanker in India. (Photo by Nicole See) NEW DELHI, India | If there are water wars in the future, conservationist Jyothi Sharma thinks they'll happen just outside her apartment in an upper-middle class enclave in Delhi's… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch California Forges Ahead Implementing Health Reform Changes Spencer Michels looks at how the nation's most populous state is moving ahead on the new federal health care law. Continue watching
Dec 28 In California, Republicans and Democrats Work to Implement Health Care Reform While some parts of the nation are figuring out how to block national health care reform or repeal the law, California has plunged headfirst into making it work. The Republican governor and the Democratic legislature are cooperating to smooth the… Continue reading