Apr 07 Watch Drug Safety: Bextra The drugmaker Pfizer Thursday agreed to suspend sales of painkiller Bextra after regulators found risk of serious side effects. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer discusses the Food and Drug Administration's new recommendations for Bextra and other similar medications. Continue watching
Apr 07 Watch Thailand Prepares for Deadly Avian Flu Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television looks at the impact of avian flu on Southeast Asia. Continue watching
Apr 05 ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings Diagnosed With Lung Cancer By PBS News Hour ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, the only of the "Big Three" veteran network anchors not to have recently retired from the post, has been diagnosed with lung cancer but plans to keep working through chemotherapy treatment, the network said Tuesday. Continue reading
Mar 31 Terri Schiavo Dies 13 Days After Feeding Tube Removed By PBS News Hour Terri Schiavo, 41, died Thursday in a Florida hospice 13 days after her feeding tube was removed -- a decision allowed by the courts after years of legal wrangling between Schiavo's husband and parents. Continue reading
Mar 25 Watch Medical Ethics of Schiavo Case The dispute over the life of Terri Schiavo has raised a series of difficult ethical questions about the proper diagnosis and treatment of people with severely incapacitating injuries or illnesses. Continue watching
Mar 24 Supreme Court Rejects Schiavo Parents’ Appeal By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court in a one-page order on Thursday refused Terri Schiavo's parents' request to reinsert their severely brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube. The order ends a four-day rush to get her case reviewed by federal courts. Continue reading
Mar 23 U.S. Court Rejects Appeal in Schiavo Case By PBS News Hour A federal appeals court refused early Wednesday to order the reinsertion of a feeding tube into the brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, rejecting the request of her parents and their supporters who have battled to keep the Florida woman alive. Continue reading
Mar 22 U.S. Judge Refuses to Have Woman’s Feeding Tube Reinserted By PBS News Hour A federal judge in Florida refused Tuesday to resume tube feeding of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo. Her parents have said they would appeal the decision. Continue reading
Mar 21 Congress, President Intervene in Schiavo Case By PBS News Hour The U.S. Congress and President Bush intervened in the dispute over the life of Terri Schiavo early Monday, sending the case of the brain damaged Florida woman to federal court. Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch A New Study on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical Care Dr. Adewale Troutman, director of the Louisville Metro Health Department, discusses a new study he co-authored on racial and ethnic disparities in medical care. Continue watching