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
Dec 15 Doctors still argue about this prince's early death By Dr. Howard Markel For more than a century, Albert’s demise was attributed to typhoid fever. More recently, however, a parade of doctors and armchair pathologists have argued that it was something more than an infection that carted the prince away. Continue reading
Dec 14 Watch 3:45 The Obamacare deadline to sign up for insurance is Friday. Here's what you need to know By PBS News Hour There's just one day left to enroll in health insurance under the federal marketplace for 2018. While demand has been higher this year, the length of the signup period is just half of what it was in previous years, so… Continue watching
Dec 14 Watch 7:50 Fighting the public health threat of counterfeit drugs By Fred de Sam Lazaro Fake pharmaceuticals are a multi-billion dollar problem around the world. Made and packaged to look like the real deal, these phonies may contain a fraction of the active ingredients or none at all. these fake drugs can have serious consequences… Continue watching
Dec 14 How will the tax bill impact health care? 5 experts weigh in By Daniel Bush The GOP tax plan could have a big impact on health care policy, from repealing the individual mandate to triggering future cuts in health care spending. Continue reading
Dec 14 Problems for some babies with Zika continue long after birth By Michael Rios Children born with the Zika virus and microcephaly endure motor impairments, seizures, difficulties with sleeping and feeding, and hearing and vision problems between 19 and 24 months, a new study finds. Continue reading