Health

Study: Health Care Spending Will Continue Rising, but Modestly

In a new report that's sure to provide fresh ammunition to both sides of the health reform debate, a government estimate released today finds that the new health reform law will not curb the rising costs of care once…

Scientists Use Scans to Better Understand Brain Maturity

As children mature, their brains bloom madly with activity -- growing, pruning and rewiring. During this process, some connections strengthen, while others die off. The brain is reorganizing itself with experience. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine…

Gov 2.0 | Pillbox Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data

By Hari Sreenivasan

If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a nearby pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly and easily identify what drug might have…

New Genetic Mutation Linked to Ovarian Cancer

A genetic mutation linked to one of the most aggressive forms of ovarian cancer may provide clues for new research into treatments and diagnostic tests for the deadly disease, as well as new insight into how other cancers develop. Two…

Will Open Health Data Save Your Life?

After one of health administrator Jim Traficant's two liver transplants, a doctor told him, "The surgery is a science. The medication is an art." Over the next few months of recovery, Traficant's body fought with his new liver. The organ…

Health Reform Debate Returns to the Airwaves as Midterms Draw Closer

Two months before the midterm elections, there's a bit of deja-vu in the air: a new round of ads are running on health care reform. On Wednesday, former New York Gov. George Pataki, a Republican, held a news conference…

Chile Dispatch: Trapped Miners Sent Small Luxuries, but Pine for More

COPIAPO, Chile | On Tuesday afternoon, a city of Copiapo truck dumped a fresh load of firewood next to a small cluster of tents where several trapped miners' families have spent the last month camping on the rocky ground.

1 in 5 American Adults Still Smoke, CDC Report Shows

After decades of decline, the smoking rate in the United States has plateaued over the past five years. About one in five American adults is a smoker, according to a study released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control.

Global Fund Investigates Possible Theft, Sale of Malaria Medication

By Talea Miller

Malaria causes about 1 million deaths around the world each year, but not all the medication donated to fight the disease is reaching its intended targets. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- the largest international funder…

5 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Teenagers Remember the Storm

By Betty Ann Bowser

In the days following the flooding after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, approximately 1.5 million people throughout the Gulf Coast were displaced from their homes, including 163,000 children. Some of those were young people who became separated from their siblings…