Dec 15 Watch 8:14 How safe is super-concentrated marijuana? By PBS News Hour Now legal in eight states, there are unanswered questions about the impact of recreational marijuana on public health. To maximize potency, pot can be purified for maximum THC, its psychoactive ingredient. But a lack of research and restrictions on these… Continue watching
Dec 15 The many mixed messages schools send students on healthy eating By Laura Santhanam In schools, where companies enjoy a captive audience, food marketing is widespread -- on pizza packaging, football game scoreboards and vending machines, for example. But the messages on healthy eating in the classroom often conflict with both that marketing and… Continue reading
Dec 15 'Shock and kill' therapy offers fresh hope for HIV cure, researchers say By Anne-christine d’Adesky, KQED Future of You The HIV research community is increasingly optimistic about the “shock and kill” treatment approach, which appears to remove all traces of the virus from an individual’s body. Continue reading
Dec 15 College students almost engineer controversial gene drive By Ike Swetlitz, STAT It’s a technology that could fundamentally alter entire populations, so how did a group of college students almost create a gene drive?… Continue reading
Dec 14 4 in 10 babies born after Zika infection may have brain defects, researchers say By Helen Branswell, STAT The toll that Zika virus takes on pregnancies appears to be even higher than was previously estimated. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch 7:00 How the big biomedical bill advances U.S. mental health care By PBS News Hour Most of the attention around the biomedical bill President Obama signed on Tuesday has focused on faster drug approval and new money for research. But included within the massive piece of legislation are measures for mental health care. William Brangham… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch 3:12 News Wrap: EPA finds fracking can contaminate underground water in some cases By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 12 Watch 'Repeal and replace'? More like repeal and collapse, warns HHS Secretary Burwell By PBS News Hour During the presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump promised to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare.” But undoing the law and creating a new one may be more difficult than his campaign rhetoric suggested. Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Dec 12 Herbal drug kratom faces uncertain legal future, despite public outpouring By Michelle Harven Kratom, a leafy-green herbal supplement used by an estimated 3 to 5 million Americans, has inspired tens of thousands of responses in a public comment period over its possible controlled substance designation by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Continue reading
Dec 12 After health-care repeal vote, some in GOP fear a cliff By Alan Fram, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republicans are eagerly planning initial votes next month on dismantling President Barack Obama's health care law, a cherished GOP goal. But many worry that while Congress tries to replace it, the party will face ever-angrier voters, spooked health… Continue reading