Sep 13 Watch Victims, Rapists Speak Out on Rape as Weapon of War in Congo Independent Television News reports on the ongoing use of violent rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch In Congo, Attitudes About Rape as a Weapon Remain Tough to Change Gwen Ifill talks with two experts familiar with the sexual violence that has occurred in the Democratic Republic of Congo over the past decade. Continue watching
Sep 13 Camp in Maine Offers Veterans Time to Unwind, Heal By Ray Suarez Kieve Camp in Nobleboro, Maine, started by welcoming families of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and now helps families and veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch Some Veterans With Brain Trauma Still Await Purple Hearts In a collaborative report, we examine why some veterans with traumatic brain injuries are having trouble getting awarded the Purple Heart. Continue watching
Sep 09 At Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers' Mission Is to Heal By Ray Suarez Fort Hood, the largest Army base in the United States, houses a Wounded Warrior Transition Brigade, where injured soldiers are nursed back to health and returned to the field or to civilian life. Continue reading
Sep 09 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… Continue reading
Sep 09 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… Continue reading
Sep 08 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… Continue reading
Sep 08 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… Continue reading
Sep 08 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… Continue reading