Jul 16 Watch New Early Alzheimer's Test Raises Hopes for Improved Treatment Margaret Warner reports on how a new test designed to detect signs of Alzheimer's disease can change the scope of treatments sooner for patients. Continue watching
Jul 15 Port-au-Prince Maternity Clinics Pushed to Limit By Talea Miller It's nearly dusk in Port-au-Prince on a recent sweltering summer evening, and four women at the Health Center of Croix des Bouquets are in the early stages of labor. They are all expected to give birth by morning and will… Continue reading
Jul 15 Watch In Haiti, Mental Health Still a Concern for Many Quake Survivors In the last of his week-long series of reports from Haiti, Ray Suarez examines the mental health problems survivors are having following January's devastating earthquake. Continue watching
Jul 14 Haiti Aims to Move Residents Out of Tents, Back Into Habitable Homes By Talea Miller With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return… Continue reading
Jul 14 States Face Layoffs, Cuts as Federal Medicaid Aid Stalls Across the U.S., cash-strapped states are facing the possibility of layoffs and program cuts this year as an extension of federal Medicaid aid looks increasingly uncertain. Thirty states had written the extension of the additional Medicaid money -- first… Continue reading
Jul 14 Life in Haiti's Tent Cities By Talea Miller More than 1,300 tent camps are housing an estimated 1.5 million people in Haiti displaced by a powerful earthquake in January. Some camps are well serviced by a variety of NGOs, but other more informal camps have little support. Continue reading
Jul 14 Watch Diabetes Drug Avandia Draws Debate Over Risks, Medical Benefits Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on the safety concerns surrounding the diabetes drug Avandia after U.S. health advisers recommended it stay on the market with increased warnings to consumers despite associated heart risks. Continue watching
Jul 13 New U.S. AIDS Strategy Aims to Reduce New Infections by 25% The Obama administration on Tuesday released a wide-ranging domestic AIDS policy plan that aims to reduce the annual number of new HIV infections by 25 percent by 2015 and calls for more targeted efforts to slow the spread of… Continue reading
Jul 13 What Now in Haiti? President Preval Talks With Ray Suarez By Ray Suarez The temperature has been in the mid-90s, but the humidity makes it feel like it's over 100. The sun pounds the pavement, heat radiates from the cinder block walls that push pedestrians to a narrow strip of sidewalk in most… Continue reading
Jul 12 New PTSD Treatment Rules for Vets Come Too Late for Some By Betty Ann Bowser When the Department of Veterans Affairs announced its changes for how military vets can quality for PTSD treatment Monday, it made us think back to a very powerful story we did in 2008 on the impact of these… Continue reading