Oct 19 Watch 3:00 Extra attention is on the menu at this restaurant catering to cognitive disorders By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, a Massachusetts restaurant is leading the way for families dealing with autism, Alzheimer's and other cognitive disorders by offering a routine -- but special -- dinner reservation. Tina Martin of WGBH reports. Continue watching
Oct 19 Understanding California's Hepatitis A outbreak By Dr. Amber Robins On March 18, the California Department of Public Health first announced an outbreak of the Hepatitis A virus. Seven months later on Oct. 13, California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency. Reported cases of Hepatitis A had more… Continue reading
Oct 19 Analysis: Teens are sleeping less. Why? Smartphones By Jean Twenge, The Conversation By 2015, 43 percent of teens reported sleeping less than seven hours a night on most nights – meaning almost half of U.S. teens are significantly sleep-deprived. Continue reading
Oct 19 Drug companies know their eyedrops are wasteful. And you foot the bill By Marshall Allen, ProPublica Last year, drug companies brought in about $3.4 billion in the U.S. alone on drops for dry eyes and glaucoma drops. Continue reading
Oct 18 Trump gives more mixed signals in bipartisan health deal By Alan Fram and Erica Werner, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump sent more perplexing signals Wednesday about whether he backs a bipartisan Senate deal for steadying health insurance markets, saying he backs lawmakers' efforts to strike that compromise but "can never support" federal bailouts for insurers. Continue reading
Oct 18 The End of Aids? It’s a bold mission by any standard: to end the AIDS epidemic. But the tools are there, say officials of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. Watch our six part series on the plan. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch Senators take a bipartisan step toward a health care fix By PBS News Hour Two leading senators reached a bipartisan deal Tuesday to stabilize health insurance markets under Obamacare. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said their two-year compromise would fund federal subsidies that President Trump ended last week. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch 11:11 New Mexico deploys best practices to avoid the worst outcomes in the opioid crisis By PBS News Hour While states nationwide have been scrambling to respond to the deadly opioid epidemic, New Mexico has been hard at work with an aggressive response for years. So why have its addiction rates remained stubbornly high? Hari Sreenivasan visits a state… Continue watching
Oct 16 Watch 5:39 How drug distributors reportedly hobbled law enforcement from policing the flow of opioids By PBS News Hour An investigation by 60 Minutes and the Washington Post alleges that the companies that distribute opioid painkillers to pharmacies and doctors’ offices nationwide persuaded Congress to weaken the DEA’s ability to halt drug distribution at the height of the opioid… Continue watching
Oct 16 How a serious illness gave Eugene O'Neill his dark literary power By Dr. Howard Markel Long before he sat down to compose the dramas that have long enlightened and haunted audiences, Eugene O’Neill contracted tuberculosis, and it forever changed him. Continue reading