Mar 19 Watch 9:28 Will Trump's focus on prosecution, not treatment, make a dent in opioid addiction? By PBS News Hour President Trump announced his plan to combat nationwide opioid drug addiction at an event in New Hampshire on Monday, calling for aggressive prosecution for traffickers, including using the death penalty. William Brangham discusses these proposals with Sam Quinones, author of… Continue watching
Mar 19 Mississippi governor signs ban on abortions after 15 weeks By Laura Santhanam "This common-sense, pro-life law will help us make our state the safest place in America for an unborn child," Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant recently tweeted. Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch 8:50 In a heavily Puerto Rican city, schools scramble to help students displaced by hurricane By Corinne Segal, Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green Since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico last year, more than 24,000 students have left for the U.S. mainland and more than 400 came to Hartford, Connecticut, where a third of residents identify as Puerto Rican. Now, Hartford is working to… Continue watching
Mar 17 Hospitals are confronting a new opioid crisis: an alarming shortage of pain meds By Casey Ross, STAT Production of injectable opioids has nearly ground to a halt due to manufacturing problems, creating a shortage of staple medications used to treat a wide array of patients. Continue reading
Mar 16 Photos: Families pour out of Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta By Larisa Epatko For weeks during brief cease-fires in the volatile rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, few Syrians left. That all changed this week as thousands escaping Syrian government bombings left by foot with the only belongings they could carry. Continue reading
Mar 15 Watch 7:50 Amid a barrage of negative headlines, VA chief faces push for more privatization By PBS News Hour Despite denials of another Cabinet shakeup from President Trump, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin's standing has taken a hit on multiple fronts, including a probe revealing improper use of taxpayer funds for his wife's travel and ongoing scandals about how… Continue watching
Mar 14 Purdue Pharma promoted Oxycontin for years. Now, it is combating the opioid crisis By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News After years of aggressively promoting OxyContin as a safe and effective way to combat pain, the company is — equally aggressively — recasting itself as a fundamental player in the response to a crisis that many experts say it helped… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch 6:49 To solve opioid epidemic, governors say there need to be federal dollars behind pledges By PBS News Hour The governors of Maryland and Oregon are making an urgent call for greater federal help to deal with the opioid epidemic in their hard-hit states. Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., and Gov. Kate Brown, D-Ore., sit down with William Brangham to… Continue watching
Mar 10 Flu vaccine grown without eggs provided measurably better protection this season, FDA says By Helen Branswell, STAT The sole influenza vaccine made in cell culture in the United States may have worked about 20 percent better this flu season than the standard vaccines made in eggs, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 09 Mississippi could soon be the only state to ban abortion after 15 weeks By Laura Santhanam Critics say the new law, which Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to sign, could set up a Supreme Court showdown over the 40-year-old landmark Roe v. Wade case that gave women in the United States the legal right to have… Continue reading