Jan 11 What Trump, Kennedy can and can’t do to change U.S. vaccine policy By Rebecca Robbins, STAT Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vaccine critic, told reporters Tuesday that he will chair a commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity. But what's possible for Trump to change — and what’s not?… Continue reading
Jan 10 Trump pegs vaccine skeptic to run safety commission, alarming doctors By Lauran Neergaard and Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump is reviving long debunked attempts to link vaccines to autism, asking Robert F. Kennedy Jr. -- a vocal skeptic -- to chair a commission on vaccination safety. Continue reading
Jan 10 Although GOP don’t have a replacement, Trump urges quick action on Obamacare repeal By Erica Werner, Associated Press The push for speed and coordination came as growing numbers of Republicans expressed concerns about GOP leadership's plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a replacement in hand. Continue reading
Jan 10 One in three women may receive unnecessary mammograms, study says By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News The study raises the uncomfortable possibility that some women who believe their lives were saved by mammograms were actually harmed by cancer screenings that led to surgery, radiation and even chemotherapy that they didn’t need. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch 10:33 Landmark or footnote? Obamacare legacy now rests with Trump By PBS News Hour When he signed the Affordable Care Act in 2010, President Obama achieved what politicians had long tried and failed to do: provide near-universal health insurance to Americans. But ever since, it’s faced unflagging Republican opposition. Special correspondent Sarah Varney of… Continue watching
Jan 09 Health secretary nominee kept federal dollars flowing to campaign donors By Marisa Taylor and Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News Rep. Tom Price, the physician and Georgia Republican tapped for the nation’s leading health care job, has long criticized federal spending as excessive. Yet during his years in Congress, he’s worked hard to keep federal dollars flowing to his most… Continue reading
Jan 08 Watch 25:03 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Jan. 8, 2017 By PBS News Hour On this episode for Sunday, Jan. 8, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees prepare for their Senate confirmation hearings this week. Later, a look at the debate over incarcerating juveniles as adults. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Continue watching
Jan 08 Watch 10:14 Should juveniles be incarcerated with adults? By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green While all states can charge juveniles as adults, often for the most serious crimes, North Carolina and New York do so for every 16- or 17-year-old, regardless of the offense. People who want to raise the age of adult responsibility… Continue watching
Jan 08 Prison strike organizers to protest food giant Aramark By Kamala Kelkar The people who organized the country’s biggest prison strike against what they call modern-day slavery have planned a protest of corporate food service company Aramark. Continue reading
Jan 08 Doctors admonish us to leave earwax alone. Why won’t anyone listen? By Eric Boodman, STAT Few pieces of medical advice have been so consistent for so long, and so ignored, as the admonition not to use foreign objects to remove earwax. Continue reading