Dec 20 Watch 6:29 The GOP tax bill deals a blow to the Affordable Care Act. Here's how By PBS News Hour The sweeping tax bill passed by Congress on Wednesday extends beyond what you file with the IRS. It also affects American health care by repealing Obamacare's so-called individual mandate. John Yang learns more from Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch 9:35 Giving poor families more choices in where to live can greatly improve health By Sarah Varney, Jason Kane When low-income Americans are concentrated in substandard homes in struggling or violent neighborhoods, it has tangible consequences for well-being. Research confirms that moving families into less segregated neighborhoods improves overall health, and some communities are giving families vouchers to relocate. Continue watching
Dec 20 Here's when states could run out of money to fund the Children's Health Insurance Program By Laura Santhanam Nine million children nationwide receive health care coverage through CHIP. But many of them could soon be uninsured if Congress doesn’t vote to reauthorize its funding. Continue reading
Dec 19 Watch 7:37 Impact of 'global gag rule' goes beyond abortion for these health groups in Kenya By Fred de Sam Lazaro The so-called global gag rule, which cuts off some U.S. government aid to health agencies that offer or mention abortion services, has been reinstated by every Republican president going back to Reagan. But the Trump administration has gone much further,… Continue watching
Dec 19 Why having more friends reduces your risk of type 2 diabetes By Rashmi Shivni People with larger social groups receive fewer type 2 diabetes diagnoses compared to socially isolated people, according to a new large-scale population study from the Netherlands. Continue reading
Dec 19 Here's where the nation's biggest drug lobby spent money in 2016 By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News Threats seemed especially dire last year. Storms of bad publicity hit the industry in the form of stories about arrogant executives and thousand-dollar pills. Continue reading
Dec 17 Watch 10:31 How an unregulated chemical entered a North Carolina community's drinking water By Sam Weber, Laura Fong One of about 85,000 chemicals registered in the United States are not tested for in drinking water. One of them is GenX, a man-made compound that manufacturing facilities have discharged into North Carolina’s Cape Fear River for decades. In the… Continue watching
Dec 17 Sign-ups show Affordable Care Act's staying power in Trump era By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press A deadline burst of sign-ups after a tumultuous year for the Obama health law has revealed continued demand for the program’s subsidized individual health plans. Continue reading
Dec 16 Watch 10:39 Long Island residents worry their tap water is unsafe By Sam Weber, Laura Fong While most of the country’s tap water is tested for hundreds of pollutants, including volatile chemicals, pesticides, metals and bacteria, it is not always safe to drink. In the first of a two-part series, NewsHour Weekend’s Hari Sreenivasan reports from… Continue watching
Dec 15 Teens don't always know what they're vaping, study says By Michael Rios The study, called Monitoring the Future, was released Thursday by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan. It surveyed more than 43,000 eighth, 10th and 12th graders across the country in early 2017 about their… Continue reading