Nov 25 Watch Rx for Medicare The Senate voted 54-44 Tuesday to approve a $400 billion Medicare reform bill that will give seniors access to prescription drug benefits and increase the roll of private health plans. Two policy analysts discuss the newly passed Medicare bill and… Continue watching
Nov 21 Watch Rx for Medicare The House of Representatives is bracing for a close vote tonight on a Medicare reform bill which would increase the role of private managed care and add a prescription drug benefit. Kwame Holman gives a background report, and Ray Suarez… Continue watching
Nov 20 South Africa to Distribute Free AIDS Drugs In a major policy change for President Thabo Mbeki's government, South African officials Thursday unveiled a program to distribute free AIDS drugs, ending its long-standing opposition to providing anti-retrovirals. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch Rx: For Medicare A new Medicare bill tentatively agreed to by House and Senate conferees would add prescription drug coverage and introduce more competition from private health plans, a provision that may jeopardize its chances of gaining support from some Democrats. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Nov 17 Republicans Reach Tentative Deal to Pass Medicare Drug Plan Republicans are pushing a Medicare bill tentatively agreed to by House and Senate that would add prescription drug coverage and introduce more competition from private health plans, a provision that may jeopardize its chances with Democrats. Continue reading
Nov 06 Canada Poised to Export Cheap AIDS Drugs to Poor Nations Canada introduced legislation Thursday designed to allow companies to sell low-cost versions of expensive AIDS drugs to poor nations. Continue reading
Nov 06 Watch Born Free from HIV Pregnant women with HIV in the United States face a dramatically lower risk of passing the virus on to their children than they did about a decade ago. Susan Dentzer talks to doctors and patients about the medical discoveries that… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch Extended Interview: Dr. Mary Glenn Fowler Dr. Mary Glenn Fowler, the lead researcher on maternal to child HIV transmission at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses the reasons for the decline in babies being born with HIV in the United States, and the challenges… Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch Extended Interview: Arlene Bardeguez and James Oleske Obstetrician Arlene Bardeguez, director of HIV services for University Hospital in Newark, N.J., and pediatrician James Oleske, who directs that hospital's center for HIV positive children, discuss the advances that have been made in avoiding mother-child transmission of HIV. Continue watching
Nov 06 Watch Extended Interview: Mother-Child HIV Transmission Mary, a pregnant, HIV-positive woman discusses losing her first son to AIDS and, more than ten years later, deciding to have another child. Continue watching