Jul 28 Watch 5:18 What you need to know about South Florida Zika scare By PBS News Hour The Food and Drug Administration asked two South Florida counties — Miami-Dade and Broward — to immediately halt blood donations as what looks like four cases of locally transmitted, mosquito-borne Zika virus are investigated. Hari Sreenivasan talks with Dr. Anthony… Continue watching
Jul 28 2 Florida counties halt blood donations, as evidence mounts for local Zika transmission By Nsikan Akpan FDA has temporarily suspended blood donations in two Florida counties due to fears over Zika virus. Continue reading
Jul 28 Traffic deaths rise when cities remove red-light cameras, study says By Joan Lowy, Associated Press Red-light cameras are widely hated, but a new study says getting rid of them can have fatal consequences. Continue reading
Jul 25 The global fight against deadly brain-eating amoeba is gaining ground By Lindzi Wessel, STAT Scientists scour the globe for a drug to kill deadly brain-eating amoeba. Continue reading
Jul 24 Montana's 'pain refugees' leave the state to get prescribed opioids By Corin Cates-Carney, Montana Public Radio On a recent night, three Montana residents, who call themselves pain refugees, boarded an airplane from Missoula to Los Angeles. Continue reading
Jul 23 How a Caribbean island became prime source of U.S. Zika cases By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News More than 1,400 Americans contracted Zika while traveling outside the U.S. this year and a Caribbean-island nation is one of the top destinations where they caught the virus. Continue reading
Jul 22 When black death goes viral, it can trigger PTSD-like trauma By Kenya Downs “We’re witnessing mentally and emotionally traumatizing videos and pictures. It’s enough, it’s just enough. It’s just so overwhelming all the time." - April Reign, managing editor for Broadway Black… Continue reading
Jul 22 Diabetes linked to risk of mental health hospitalization in young adults By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News Young people with diabetes were four times more likely to be hospitalized for mental health or substance use treatment in 2014 than were young adults without the disease, according to a recent study. Continue reading
Jul 21 Watch 9:49 How South Africa, the nation hardest-hit by HIV, plans to 'end AIDS' By William Brangham, Jason Kane Nearly one in five people infected with HIV globally lives in South Africa, and only half of those individuals are on treatment. But the nation has made major strides against the virus in recent years and now is aggressively moving… Continue watching
Jul 20 Watch 10:15 Why a Kenyan island may teach the world how to beat AIDS By William Brangham, Jason Kane A massive HIV test-and-treat study is underway in Kenya and Uganda. Migratory men in the fishing industry there have been hit especially hard, and researchers are trying creative ways to encourage them to get tested. William Brangham reports from Mfangano… Continue watching