As a part of her reporting on this issue of long-term care for the some of the most severely wounded, NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer spoke with Suzanne Mintz, president of the National Family Caregivers Association. The following is an…
As a part of her reporting on this issue of long-term care for the some of the most severely wounded, NewsHour health correspondent Susan Dentzer spoke with Sandy Garfunkel, director of the Washington D.C. Veterans Administration Medical Center. The following…
The drugmaker Pfizer Thursday agreed to suspend sales of painkiller Bextra after regulators found risk of serious side effects. Health correspondent Susan Dentzer discusses the Food and Drug Administration's new recommendations for Bextra and other similar medications.
Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro of Twin Cities Public Television looks at the impact of avian flu on Southeast Asia.
ABC News anchor Peter Jennings, the only of the "Big Three" veteran network anchors not to have recently retired from the post, has been diagnosed with lung cancer but plans to keep working through chemotherapy treatment, the network said Tuesday.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died Thursday in a Florida hospice 13 days after her feeding tube was removed -- a decision allowed by the courts after years of legal wrangling between Schiavo's husband and parents.
The dispute over the life of Terri Schiavo has raised a series of difficult ethical questions about the proper diagnosis and treatment of people with severely incapacitating injuries or illnesses.
The Supreme Court in a one-page order on Thursday refused Terri Schiavo's parents' request to reinsert their severely brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube. The order ends a four-day rush to get her case reviewed by federal courts.
A federal appeals court refused early Wednesday to order the reinsertion of a feeding tube into the brain-damaged woman, Terri Schiavo, rejecting the request of her parents and their supporters who have battled to keep the Florida woman alive.
A federal judge in Florida refused Tuesday to resume tube feeding of brain-damaged Florida woman Terri Schiavo. Her parents have said they would appeal the decision.
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