Feb 04 New York Times Reporter Assesses Vaccine Study’s Retraction By Hari Sreenivasan In the wake of The Lancet medical journal fully retracting its 1998 study suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, we spoke with New York Times public health reporter Gardiner Harris for some perspective on… Continue reading
Feb 04 American Missionaries in Haiti Charged with Abduction By Jason Breslow The American missionaries detained in Haiti last week for trying to take 33 children to neighboring Dominican Republic have been charged with abduction and criminal association, according to prosecutors. After announcing the charges, Haitian Deputy Prosecutor Jean Ferge Joseph… Continue reading
Feb 04 Health Spending Sees Record Jump as Government Share of Spending Increases Health care spending accounted for 17.3 percent of the U.S. economy in 2009, according to a report by the federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, published Thursday in the journal Health Affairs. Read the report here. That's a… Continue reading
Feb 04 Journal Retracts Study Backing Vaccine-Autism Link By Talea Miller This week, the British medical journal the Lancet formally retracted a 1998 study that helped set off the debate over the safety of vaccines and whether they may be connected to later diagnoses of autism in children. Continue reading
Feb 03 House May Take Up Slice of Health Reform; Larger Bill’s Fate Still Unclear The House of Representatives may vote next week on a bill to remove the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption. The move is the first attempt to jump-start the "two-track" health care reform effort that House Speaker Nancy… Continue reading
Feb 03 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Using Drama to Understand and Heal the Wounds of War A dramatic performance project called "Theater of War" uses ancient Greek tragedies for a very special goal: To link ancient and modern warriors in an understanding of war's pain and mental agony. Continue reading
Feb 02 Haiti Puts Brakes on New Adoptions By Talea Miller Updated 6:30pm ET In the wake of the arrest of ten American missionaries in Haiti detained on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country -- the missionaries say they were going to set up… Continue reading
Feb 01 For Some, a Long Wait to Leave Haiti By Talea Miller Long lines form outside the immigration and emigration office in Port-au-Prince each day as Haitians wait hours, or even days, to apply for new passports or to replace old ones destroyed or lost in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Continue reading
Jan 29 Gates Pledges $10 Billion for Vaccines By Lea Winerman In the largest philanthropic commitment ever made by a foundation, Bill and Melinda Gates have pledged to spend $10 billion over the next decade on vaccine development and delivery. Speaking Friday at the World Economic Forum in… Continue reading
Jan 29 President Preval: Solutions Will Come From ‘Within Haiti’ By Ray Suarez Sometimes, the best things happen in the news business when you just happen to be at an optimal place, at an optimal moment. Today the NewsHour team was starting to shoot a story on the struggle to get the Haitian… Continue reading