Sep 14 Watch 3:00 Trump tours Flint water crisis; Clinton releases health info By PBS News Hour Donald Trump made his first visit to Flint, Michigan, since the city had discovered lead in its water. But when he began criticizing his opponent, the minister of a local church interrupted to tell him to cut out the politics. Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch 3:12 Inside the candidates’ plans for paid leave and child care By PBS News Hour When it comes to paid family leave, the United States lags behind every other developed country in the world. Hillary Clinton has stressed childhood issues for decades and has proposed 12 weeks of paid leave and universal preschool. Meanwhile, Donald… Continue watching
Sep 14 CDC deploys new rapid response teams to fight Zika By Virginia Anderson, Kaiser Health News ATLANTA — It was a call that public health officials were dreading, but for which they had prepared. Continue reading
Sep 13 Watch 5:49 How the sugar industry paid experts to downplay health risks By PBS News Hour Researchers have discovered documents showing that the sugar industry paid researchers to downplay the health risks of sugar and play up the risks of saturated fat in the 1960s. Gwen Ifill speaks with Marion Nestle of New York University about… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch 54:29 PBS NewsHour full episode Sept. 13, 2016 By PBS News Hour Tuesday on the NewsHour, U.S. incomes rise for the first time in almost a decade as poverty rates drop. Also: Questions arise around Donald Trump’s charity, an Italian farm in Italy that’s run by immigrants is missing a key ingredient,… Continue watching
Sep 13 Number of uninsured Americans falls again in 2015 By Julie Rovner, KFF Health News Still, between 2013 and 2015, the first two full years the health law was in effect, the uninsured rate dropped by more than 4 percentage points. Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans with insurance for at least some part of the… Continue reading
Sep 13 One out of five children have mental illness, and schools often don’t help By Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News School has been a real challenge for them. That’s not unusual for the 1 in 5 children with a mental illness. They often suffer anxiety, difficulty focusing and social challenges. Continue reading
Sep 13 How the sugar industry artificially sweetened Harvard research By Melissa Bailey, STAT A paper recounts how two famous Harvard nutritionists, Dr. Fredrick Stare and Mark Hegsted, who are now deceased, worked closely with a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, which was trying to influence public understanding of sugar’s role in… Continue reading
Sep 12 Hillary Clinton, and what you need to know about pneumonia By Helen Branswell, STAT Here’s what you need to know about pneumonia. Continue reading
Sep 11 FDA weighs crackdown that could shut hundreds of stem cell clinics By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT Scientists on Monday will urge the Food and Drug Administration to crack down on rogue clinics across the country that market stem cell treatments. Continue reading