Health

Fighting to breathe in the world's most polluted city

By PBS News Hour

Delhi now outranks Beijing as the world's most polluted city. Carbon dioxide, ozone and fine carbon particles get trapped over India's capital, mostly due to dirty fuels, causing long-term health consequences such as lung and heart disease. Special correspondent Fred…

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Same-sex marriage laws linked to fewer youth suicide attempts, new study says

By Corinne Segal

The researchers found that suicide attempts by high school students decreased by 7 percent in states after they passed laws to legalize same-sex marriage.

Lawmakers seek to help e-cigarette makers escape new regulations

By Sheila Kaplan, STAT

Congressional supporters of the tobacco industry have proposed legislation to help e-cigarette companies escape rules adopted under Obama.

Treatment gaps persist between low- and high-income workers, even with insurance

By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News

Low-wage workers with job-based health insurance were significantly more likely than their higher-income colleagues to wind up in the emergency department.

McConnell intends to replace 'Obamacare' without Democrats

By Erica Werner, Associated Press

"It's clear that in the early months it's going to be a Republicans-only exercise," the Kentucky senator said at a news conference before lawmakers left for a weeklong President's Day recess.

House GOP struggles for consensus on replacing health law

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters Thursday that the GOP would deliver legislation to repeal and replace the ACA, but offered no details.

Broad Institute wins heated dispute over CRISPR patents

By Sharon Begley, STAT

The U.S. patent office ruled on Wednesday that hotly disputed patents on the revolutionary genome-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 belong to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, dealing a blow to the University of California.