Oct 22 Mozambique's Health Care Struggles Put Need for Basics Back in Focus By Ray Suarez MAPUTO | A few weeks ago at the U.N., I interviewed the Health Minister of Mozambique, Paolo Ivo Garrido. By the time I got to Maputo in October, Garrido had been dismissed as health minister in a cabinet reshuffling and… Continue reading
Oct 22 WikiLeaks Close to Releasing War Documents; Cholera Outbreak in Haiti The WikiLeaks website is close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is "the largest cache of secret U.S. documents in history." The Associated Press reports that the documents include hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the… Continue reading
Oct 21 Regulators Approve Strict New Rules for Insurance Company Spending State health insurance officials on Thursday approved rules that will guide how much money insurers must spend on patient care under the new health care reform law. The vote capped months of debate, and it provides an early glimpse… Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch What's Really in Herbal Supplements? In one of America's fastest-growing but least-regulated industries, consumers face a dizzying array of herbal treatment options. But studies about the effectiveness of these products are inconclusive, and the ingredients listed in labels are sometimes misleading. Paul Solman reports. Continue watching
Oct 21 A Closer Look at Herbal Supplements UPDATE | Oct. 22, 2010 from Paul Solman: Apologies to all who know biology: this story identified A,C,G and T as AMINO acids. They're NUCLEIC. ................................................................................................................................................ Paul Solman's Making Sen$e segment on Thursday's NewsHour looks at a new… Continue reading
Oct 20 'Dollars for Docs' Tracks Pharmaceutical Companies' Spending A new database compiled by the nonprofit investigative journalism group ProPublica allows patients, for the first time, to see whether their doctors are on a pharmaceutical company's payroll -- and if so, how much they're being paid. You can use… Continue reading
Oct 20 Reporter's Notebook: A Clinic's Strains in Mozambique MAPUTO, Mozambique | Heard much about Mozambique in the last 35 years? It's a country that doesn't get much attention in the United States. It's a big place, roughly the size of Pakistan, and sparsely populated by some 23… Continue reading
Oct 19 Study: Hormone Therapy Leads to More Advanced Breast Cancer Eight years ago, a major nationwide study found that post-menopausal women who took long-term hormone replacement therapy were more likely to develop breast cancer, heart disease and stroke than women who didn't. Now, a follow-up study… Continue reading
Oct 19 Photo from the Field: Waiting for HIV Care in Mozambique Women wait with their babies in the HIV ward of the Primeiro de Maio Centro de Saude in Maputo, Mozambique, one of the largest health facilities in the city. Parents of HIV positive children waited for hours at the… Continue reading
Oct 18 As Medicare Moves Toward Pay-for-Performance, Study Highlights Need for Better Data Much of the coverage of the health care reform law in its early stages has focused on efforts to expand health insurance coverage. But the law has another focus as well -- improving the quality and value of medical care. Continue reading