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
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