Sep 02 Pfizer Settles $2.3 Billion Suit for Illegal Marketing The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that drugmaker Pfizer will pay the government $2.3 billion for illegally marketing the anti-inflammatory drug Bextra, the largest health care lawsuit settlement in the department's history. Continue reading
Sep 02 Watch Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight with Free Surgeries Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics that subsidizes sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients and provides top-of-the-line care for patients who can pay. Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch Examining the Public Option in Health Care Reform In the latest in a series of conversations with key players in the health care debate, Jeffrey Brown speaks with Jacob Hacker of Yale University, one of the key proponents of a public insurance option. Continue watching
Aug 31 Watch Health Care Coverage Tests Perceptions of the Media The more heated the fight over health care reform becomes, the more many Americans grow skeptical of how the media is covering the fiercely partisan debate. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Aug 29 Leaders Pay Tribute to Kennedy at Boston Funeral Hundreds of political luminaries paid tribute to Sen. Edward Kennedy on a rainy Saturday in Boston as three days of memorials were set to culminate with his entombment near his slain brothers. Continue reading
Aug 28 Watch Health Systems Abroad Offer Lessons for U.S. Reform Plan As part of the NewsHour's series of conversations about health care reform, Betty Ann Bowser talks to Washington Post correspondent T.R. Reid, author of a new book about health care systems around the world and what the U.S. can learn… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Separating Fact from Fiction in Health Reform Debate With five different versions of a health care bill in Congress, Ray Suarez examines the effort to separate fact from fiction in the national debate over a reform plan. Continue watching
Aug 26 Kennedy Leaves Health Care Legacy, Democrats Call for Reform Efforts to Continue Sen. Ted Kennedy once called health care legislation the cause of his life. In his decades in the Senate, he was instrumental in passing legislation expanding Americans' access to health care. Continue reading
Aug 25 Watch Cambodians Face Threat of Drug-resistant Malaria Drug-resistant malaria is threatening villages in western Cambodia. NewsHour special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the border region of Cambodia and Thailand. Continue watching
Aug 25 Watch U.S. Preparing for Resurgence of H1N1 Flu Amid predictions of a new H1N1 swine flu outbreak, health officials warn that children going back to school are especially at risk. Gwen Ifill talks to Dr. Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases… Continue watching