Nov 16 Watch Morning After Pill Controversy The NewsHour's health corespondent discusses the controversy behind Plan B emergency contraceptive, commonly known as the morning after pill, after the Government Accountability Office issued a report on the Food and Drug Administration's refusal to make the drug available over… Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch Mark McClellan on Medicare Drug Plan Health correspondent Susan Dentzer talks with Mark McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, about how to navigate the choices in Medicare's new prescription drug plan. Continue watching
Nov 11 Watch New Medicare Prescription Plan Nov. 15 is the first day to sign up for a new prescription plan under Medicare. A health unit report explains the plan designed to help seniors afford their prescriptions drugs. Continue watching
Nov 09 Health Experts Unveil Global Strategy to Tackle Bird Flu By PBS News Hour International health experts met for three days ending Wednesday in Geneva to hammer out a global strategy against bird flu. Continue reading
Nov 04 Watch Discussing the Tragedy of AIDS in South Africa Jeffrey Brown talks about the tragedy of AIDS in South Africa with author Edwin Cameron. Continue watching
Nov 01 Rehnquist Absent from Bench, Undergoes Cancer Treatment By Admin, PBS News Hour Chief Justice William Rehnquist missed the Supreme Court's first day Monday at the advice of his doctors who are treating his thyroid cancer with radiation and chemotherapy. Continue reading
Nov 01 Watch Pandemic Flu Plan Announced President Bush unveiled a flu response plan for the United States amid concerns that the H5N1 strain of the bird flu that has infected birds and on rare instances humans in Asia and Europe, will become a worldwide pandemic. A… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch Assessing the Bird Flu Crisis The death of a man in Thailand raised the avian flu death toll to 61, causing health officials across the world to look more closely at plans to prevent a pandemic. Following a background report, experts discuss the bird flu… Continue watching
Sep 19 Hurricane Victims Added to Flu Vaccine Priority List By PBS News Hour Federal health officials are adding Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in close quarters to the list of high-priority groups scheduled to receive the flu vaccine first, in a tiering method created following flu vaccine shortages last year. Continue reading
Aug 31 FDA Official Steps Down Over Morning-after Pill Decision By PBS News Hour A top Food and Drug Administration official resigned Wednesday in protest of the agency's recent decision to delay a ruling on whether to allow over-the-counter sales of an emergency contraception pill. Continue reading