Oct 19 Photo from the Field: Waiting for HIV Care in Mozambique Women wait with their babies in the HIV ward of the Primeiro de Maio Centro de Saude in Maputo, Mozambique, one of the largest health facilities in the city. Parents of HIV positive children waited for hours at the… Continue reading
Oct 18 As Medicare Moves Toward Pay-for-Performance, Study Highlights Need for Better Data Much of the coverage of the health care reform law in its early stages has focused on efforts to expand health insurance coverage. But the law has another focus as well -- improving the quality and value of medical care. Continue reading
Oct 18 Food Insecurity a Chronic Problem in Mozambique By Talea Miller MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE | Maputo's streets were buzzing with commercial activity Monday and its beaches packed over the weekend with families having picnics and friends sharing beers. But just last month, there was a very different scene here: riots over… Continue reading
Oct 18 Judge to Hear Arguments Against Health Care Law; France Warned of Threat A federal judge is hearing arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by the Virginia attorney general challenging one of the major tenets of the health care reform law. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's suit alleges that the individual mandate… Continue reading
Oct 14 Judge Allows Multistate Health Reform Lawsuit to Move Forward In a blow to the Obama administration, a federal judge in Florida ruled Thursday that a lawsuit challenging some of the major tenets of health care reform can go forward. The suit was brought by 20 state attorneys general, led… Continue reading
Oct 14 The Psychology of Confinement: Q&A With NASA Psychologist Al Holland Chilean president Sebastian Piñera sings the national anthem with chief supervisor Luis Urzua, the last miner to be rescued (Flickr Creative Commons/Rescate Mineros) NASA psychologist Al Holland has spent decades helping to prepare and support astronauts on long-term… Continue reading
Oct 11 CDC, NIH Condemn ‘Deeply Saddening’ Guatemala Study By Talea Miller The recent discovery that U.S. researchers intentionally infected Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s spurred angry responses and an apology from President Obama to Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom. Now the directors of the CDC and the National Institutes of… Continue reading
Oct 08 Does Your Lipitor Smell Funny? Check the Bottle If you are one of the millions who take Pfizer's heart drug Lipitor and happen to have one of the unlucky 90 count bottles of the 40mg pills (pictured right) you may notice an odd, musty odor. Pfizer says… Continue reading
Oct 06 Toxic Sludge From Hungary Spill Coats Villages, Threatens Danube By Talea Miller A red-tinged toxic sludge has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week - the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks in Ajka. The images have been both striking and shocking… Continue reading