Oct 05 Health Reform Profiles: A 6-Month Check-Up More than six months after President Obama signed the health care reform bill, how is the overhaul impacting -- or not impacting -- the American public?… Continue reading
Oct 04 Nobel Prize Goes to Scientist Who Developed IVF Procedure Robert Edwards stands with Louise Brown, the world's first "test tube baby," her mother Lesley Brown and her son Cameron, in July 2008. (Photo credit: Bourn Hall Clinic) Updated 1:58 p.m. ET In the first of this week's Nobel… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Researcher ‘Floored’ by Discovery of Intentional Infections in Guatemala Ray Suarez speaks with Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby about her discovery of how U.S. scientists did secret syphilis experiments on Guatemalans decades ago. Continue watching
Oct 01 U.S. Apologizes for ‘Reprehensible’ 1940s Syphilis Study in Guatemala U.S. officials apologized Friday for unethical medical experiments conducted in Guatemala more than 60 years ago, in which prison inmates were deliberately infected with syphilis. The experiments were conducted between 1946 and 1948 by Dr. John C. Cutler, a… Continue reading
Oct 01 McDonald’s Flap Puts Spotlight on Mini-Med Health Plans Discussions between the Obama administration and McDonald's over how the fast-food giant's health insurance plans will fare in the wake of health care reform are putting the spotlight on "mini-med" plans -- the type of coverage that McDonald's offers… Continue reading
Sep 30 Watch Johnson & Johnson Executives Face Congress Over Series of Recalls Johnson & Johnson executives were summoned to testify on Capitol Hill in the wake of a string of recalls that have left the company -- and the FDA -- under fire. Betty Ann Bowser updates the story. Continue watching
Sep 30 Blueberries Among Top Tips to Avoid Alzheimer’s, Journalist Says By Betty Ann Bowser When health journalist Jean Carper discovered that she carried the ApoE4 gene that triples her risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, she became interested in finding out more about the latest research on Alzheimer’s prevention. More research and… Continue reading
Sep 23 Todd Park Envisions a More Open HHS By Hari Sreenivasan According to the timeline at Healthcare.gov, at least a half dozen new health care laws go into effect Thursday. The fact that there is even such a transparent timeline on a website is one of the cornerstones… Continue reading
Sep 23 For Parkinson’s Patients, ‘Valley of Death’ Separates Science From Cures I first heard about the problem known as the "valley of death" from what might seem like an unlikely source: the actor and philanthropist Michael J. Fox. The valley of death is the gap that sometimes exists between the… Continue reading
Sep 23 Republican ‘Repeal and Replace’ Strategy Faces Legislative Roadblocks As part of their "Pledge to America" released Thursday, Republican lawmakers codified what they have been saying for months: If elected, a Republican-led Congress would aim to "repeal and replace" health care reform. But with a Democratic president in… Continue reading