Jan 05 Watch 6:56 How CRISPR gene editing puts scientists in the driver's seat of evolution By PBS News Hour Imagine you could edit a mouse’s genes to be resistant to Lyme Disease. The mouse would breed and evolution would take its course, leading to the extinction of the disease. That’s the vision for scientists developing CRISPR, technology that allows… Continue watching
Jan 05 Watch 8:28 How employers kill worker motivation and what they can do to change By PBS News Hour Bemoaning America’s productivity slowdown, behavioral economist Dan Ariely set out to find what really motivates us. Behavior is driven by emotion, he concluded, not rewards like money; the ability to help other people, feel that we’re useful, feel that we’re… Continue watching
Jan 05 The nation's birth rate declined in 2015, new data says By Laura Santhanam Research shows women gave birth to nearly 4 million babies in the U.S. in 2015, down 1 percent from a year earlier. This is a small, but noteworthy drop. Continue reading
Jan 05 Give peanuts to infants to prevent allergies, new guidelines say By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Most babies should start eating peanut-containing foods well before their first birthday, say guidelines released Thursday that aim to protect high-risk tots and other youngsters, too, from developing the dangerous food allergy. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 3:35 Obama, Pence huddle with their parties on the fate of health care By PBS News Hour At the Capitol, President Obama met privately with Democrats, urging them to defend his signature health care law. At the same time, a few floors up, Vice President-elect Pence rallied Republicans to dismantle Obamacare. Lisa Desjardins reports on what we… Continue watching
Jan 04 She took her amputated leg home, and you can too By Kristin Hugo While doctors may cite concerns with returning removed body parts, legal experts say the practice is acceptable. Here's how one Oklahoman managed the hurdles. Continue reading
Jan 04 Pence, Obama in dueling meetings at Capitol on Affordable Care Act By Alan Fram, Associated Press Sixteen days before leaving the White House, Obama championed his landmark overhaul before Democratic lawmakers and urged them to remind voters of how the statute has helped them. Continue reading
Jan 04 Gun violence spreads like an infectious disease, new research finds By Megan Thielking, STAT Gun violence in Chicago spreads like an infectious disease — and now, researchers have figured out a way to predict who’s most likely get sick next. Continue reading
Jan 04 Vowing to jettison Obamacare, Republicans face immediate resistance and risks By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Nearly seven years after its passage, Republicans still have no consensus on how to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Continue reading
Jan 02 Medicare launches revamp for treatments of heart attacks, hip fractures By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The cardiac and hip fracture experiments are the latest development in a big push under the Obama administration to reinvent Medicare. Continue reading