Jan 14 Scientists Grow Rat Heart from Transplanted Cells By PBS News Hour Researchers grew beating rat hearts in a lab using heart cells from newborn rats grafted to the scaffolding of hearts from dead rats, according to a study released Sunday. Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch Sufferers of Early Onset Alzheimer’s Describe Life with the Disease Susan Dentzer reports on early onset Alzheimer's -- a degenerative brain disease that affects an estimated 250,000 to half a million Americans -- and how a forum organized by those suffering from the diagnosis has proven an effective means of… Continue watching
Jan 02 Study: Hospital Response Slow in Cardiac-Arrest Cases By PBS News Hour Nearly a third of patients who suffer cardiac arrest in a hospital don't get potentially life-saving defibrillator shocks quickly enough, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Continue reading
Nov 30 Watch Tanzania Implements HIV Prevention Measures as World Marks AIDS Day As part of a U.S.-backed fight against HIV infection in Tanzania, student groups perform plays and stage other events in a bid to develop new techniques that will help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Susan Dentzer examines these programs on… Continue watching
Nov 28 Breast Cancer Risk Underestimated for Black Women, Experts Find By PBS News Hour The calculator that doctors have used for nearly 20 years to predict women's risk of breast cancer underestimates the risk for black women, according to a reassessment of the tool published Tuesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch New Research Raises Questions on How to Treat Concussion ‘Epidemic’ New Research Questions How to Treat Concussion 'Epidemic'… Continue watching
Nov 20 U.N. Report Reduces AIDS Estimates by Millions By PBS News Hour UNAIDS, the United Nation's group working on the AIDS epidemic, released a report Tuesday admitting that figures on the spread of HIV were over-estimated for the past decade. Continue reading
Nov 07 Watch U.S.-Backed HIV Services Help Boost Rwandan Health Care System A U.S. program to curb AIDS in Africa is working to build the capacity of Rwanda's health care system by training doctors and equiping health facilities. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer continues a series of reports examining the impact of the… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch In Rwanda, U.S.-Backed Program Improves Access to AIDS Drugs A U.S. program to curb AIDS in Africa is having success providing antiretroviral drugs to AIDS patients in Rwanda -- particularly pregnant women and newborns. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer begins a series of reports examining the impact of the American… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch Extended Interview: U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Mark Dybul Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS coordinator of the president's AIDS initiative known as PEPFAR, talks about the program's impacts, challenges and future. Continue watching