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
Nov 18 What's in the Senate Food Safety Bill? After several years of high-profile salmonella outbreaks involving eggs, peanut butter and other foods, the Senate on Wednesday moved forward with the most significant food-safety bill in 70 years. If it passes, the bill would expand the Food… Continue reading
Nov 17 On Wednesday's NewsHour: Cholera in Haiti, Nuclear Treaty, Deficit Ideas HAITI'S CHOLERA OUTBREAK | Gwen Ifill speaks with Miami Herald Caribbean correspondent Jacqueline Charles in Port-au-Prince, who says that recent unrest related to a cholera outbreak in Haiti is hampering efforts to contain the spread of the epidemic. NEWS WRAP… Continue reading
Nov 17 Medicare Chief Defends Health Reform in Senate Grilling After months of waiting, Senate Republicans who had objected to Donald Berwick's appointment as Medicare chief got their first chance to question the new agency head Wednesday. Berwick defended the health care reform law, telling members of the Senate Finance… Continue reading
Nov 17 EU in Talks Over Ireland's Finances; Germany Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack; House to Select Leadership (Photo by Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg via Getty Images) European leaders continued talks on how to tackle Ireland's troubled finances, paving the way for a possible bailout that could be worth as much as €100 billion. The crisis in Ireland's… Continue reading