Oct 29 As record number of states vote on marijuana, public health questions remain By Shayla Love, STAT The states that currently have legalized marijuana in some form represent ongoing experiments in public health. Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch 6:09 The woman behind the sexual-assault survivor 'bill of rights' By PBS News Hour Rape kits are essential evidence for prosecuting sexual assault. But in many parts of the country, they’re destroyed after six months. While assault victims can fight to preserve them longer, that information isn't necessarily shared. It's an issue Amanda Nguyen… Continue watching
Oct 28 In Haiti, are 1 million doses of cholera vaccine enough to stop an outbreak? By Larisa Epatko When Hurricane Matthew steamrolled southern Haiti earlier this month, it wiped out houses, bridges and roads. It also decimated sanitation systems, putting the Caribbean island nation at risk of worsening cholera outbreaks. Continue reading
Oct 28 Americans may find less choice in health insurance in 2017, analysis says By Meghan Hoyer, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press With insurance notices for 2017 in the mail, families are already facing difficult choices, even weighing whether to stay covered. Continue reading
Oct 28 Oakland middle-schoolers use hip-hop to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks By Jon Brooks, KQED Future of You Henrietta Lacks was a poor African-American woman whose cells have been used in scientific research for decades. Her story has been told in a best-selling book — and now an awesome middle school rap video. Continue reading
Oct 28 Column: Growing up, I didn't know my mother had a lobotomy By Mona Gable, STAT "What my mother really suffered, though, was the brutal loss of her self. But it’s taken me decades to understand that...," author Mona Gable writes. Continue reading
Oct 27 Bid to speed transplants with hepatitis C-infected kidneys By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Some patients facing a years-long wait for a kidney transplant are jumping ahead in line thanks to a startling experiment: They're agreeing to an organ almost sure to infect them with hepatitis C. Continue reading
Oct 26 America's HIV outbreak started in this city, 10 years before anyone noticed By Nsikan Akpan A new study pinpoints exactly when HIV arrived in the U.S., while also exonerating Gaëtan Dugas, a man once branded as "patient zero" and blamed for starting the outbreak. Continue reading
Oct 26 Women are fast catching up to men in alcohol consumption -- and abuse By Megan Thielking, STAT Women worldwide are catching up to men when it comes to alcohol consumption. Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch 54:30 PBS NewsHour full episode Oct. 25, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, a look at how Obamacare’s rising premiums could play into the election. Also: What people in other countries think of the American presidential race, first-generation college students take on major obstacles, one of the most contentious… Continue watching