Feb 13 Watch Maryland Bill Requires Health Care Changes for Wal-Mart A Maryland law, scheduled to go into effect in 2007, aims to force large employers, and specifically the Wal-Mart chain, to improve health benefits for employees. Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch Cancer Deaths Begin to Decline The American Cancer Society reported Thursday that death rates for the most common cancers have been falling steadily for 10 to 20 years. Jim Lehrer discusses the details of the report and what is causing the decline in cancer deaths… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch 8:25 New Orleans Health Care Struggles After Hurricane Katrina By PBS News Hour Susan Dentzer of the Health Unit reports from New Orleans about the city's broken health care system after Hurricane Katrina and the effort to assist the thousands of residents who are poor, uninsured and chronically ill. Continue watching
Feb 08 Nigeria Reports First Case of Bird Flu in Africa By PBS News Hour Animal health experts confirmed the first outbreak among poultry of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in Nigeria. Continue reading
Feb 08 Watch New Study Shows Low Fat Diet May Not Go Far Enough A major study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that reducing the amount of fat in a diet does not reduce the risk of cancer or heart disease, Two experts explain the results of the study… Continue watching
Feb 02 Iraq Gets First Human Case of Bird Flu By PBS News Hour The World Health Organization confirmed Thursday that a teenager who died on Jan. 17 in northern Iraq tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus, making the war-torn country the seventh to report a human case of the deadly disease. Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch Coal Towns React to Recent Fatal Accidents Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports from West Virginia on the search for answers to last month's mining disasters. Continue watching
Jan 13 Lab Finds Mutation in Bird Flu Virus; EU Pledges $100 Million in Aid By PBS News Hour A British laboratory has found that two victims of Turkey's bird flu outbreak died from a slightly mutated strain of the H5N1 virus, raising fears the virus could start spreading more easily. Continue reading
Jan 10 New Human Cases of Bird Flu in Turkey, China, Japan By PBS News Hour Turkish health authorities confirmed the 15th human case of the H5N1 strain of bird flu and have said a third child in the same family died from the virus, though the World Health Organization has confirmed only two deaths and… Continue reading
Jan 10 Watch Health Care Costs Doubled Between 1993 and 2004 The overall cost of health care doubled between 1993 and 2004, and in 2004, health care spending topped $1.9 trillion or 16 percent of the nation's economic output -- the largest share on record, according to a report released Monday… Continue watching