Feb 19 Personalized Genetic Test Offers New Way to Track Cancer By mapping the genetic code of malignant tumors, researchers have developed a new technique to identify and track cancer: a blood test derived from a patient's unique DNA. The finding is the latest in a growing field of… Continue reading
Feb 18 Sebelius: Insurance Rate Hikes Justify Health Care Reform Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius unveiled a new government report Thursday that warned of a double-digit spike in health insurance premiums. The increase "shines a light on the urgency for health care reform" and reveals that large… Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch Tough, Low-Cost Wheelchairs Needed in Haiti Spencer Michels reports on efforts in San Francisco to design and build heavy-duty, low-cost wheelchairs for use in the rough terrain of Haiti and around the third world. Continue watching
Feb 17 Haiti Releases 8 U.S. Missionaries By Jason Breslow A judge in Haiti has freed eight of the 10 American missionaries arrested on charges of child kidnapping after trying to bring 33 child survivors of last month's earthquake to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic. Judge Bernard Saint-Vil… Continue reading
Feb 17 Economic Cost of Haiti Quake Could Hit $14 Billion By Talea Miller Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank. The Inter-American Development Bank's… Continue reading
Feb 16 Haiti Quake Propels Use of Twitter as Disaster-Relief Tool By Larisa Epatko Kate Starbird, a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studies the use of Twitter during crises. When she and the other UC researchers heard about the massive earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, all they could do… Continue reading
Feb 15 Cancer Doctor: Future of Treatment is Personalized Medicine By Judy Woodruff Dr. John Mendelsohn, president of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, says that when he was born, only a third of cancer patients lived five years or more. Now, two-thirds live that long. Mendelsohn stopped by the… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Health Reform Advocates Target Insurance Rate Hikes Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced they will delay premium hikes for consumers in California's individual insurance market, but reform advocates hope the backlash over the proposed 39 percent rate hike will push Congress to take action? Betty Ann Bowser… Continue watching
Feb 12 Aid Groups Hope Showers, Latrines Stave Off Disease in Haiti By Larisa Epatko Preventing the spread of disease in Haiti's quake-damaged cities, where thousands have taken refuge in temporary camps, is a formidable task in a country that already posed sanitation challenges. Continue reading
Feb 12 Patchwork Nation: County Obesity Rates Show Hard Work Ahead By Dante Chinni Every first lady takes on a mission during her time in the White House, and Michelle Obama this week said that hers would be childhood obesity with the program "Let's Move." The goal is to help improve the health… Continue reading