Jun 02 How children's hospitals are helping kids sleep at night By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News Children’s hospitals are now adopting some of the strategies used to foster better sleep at hospitals serving adults. Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch 53:02 PBS NewsHour full episode June 1, 2016 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, a look at President Obama’s interview with Gwen Ifill ahead of the PBS NewsHour town hall in Elkhart, Indiana. Also: Shields and Brooks analyze the president’s interview, NASA experiments with inflatable modules, why American families are… Continue watching
Jun 01 Insurance rates going up: New concerns for Obamacare By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fresh problems for "Obamacare": The largest health insurer in Texas wants to raise its rates on individual policies by an average of nearly 60 percent, a new sign that President Barack Obama's overhaul hasn't solved the problem of… Continue reading
Jun 01 New federal guidelines pressure food industry to lower salt By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press The proposed guidelines are voluntary, so the industry won't be required to comply. Many of those companies and restaurants have already worked to reduce sodium. But the idea is to persuade them to take a more consistent approach. Continue reading
May 31 Watch 3:23 Obama to highlight economic progress in NewsHour town hall By PBS News Hour Elkhart, Indiana, was one of the cities hit worst by the financial crisis in 2009 and was the first city President Obama visited after taking office, though the city remains deeply divided along partisan lines. Obama will return to Elkhart… Continue watching
May 31 UnitedHealthcare to pull out of Obamacare markets in California By Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News UnitedHealth Group Inc. is leaving California’s insurance exchange at the end of this year, state officials confirmed Tuesday. Continue reading
May 31 This Chicago doctor stumbled on a hidden epidemic of fetal brain damage By Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News Dr. Carl Bell, a psychiatrist in Chicago, began sounding the alarm about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder four years ago. Continue reading
May 30 How might cellphone signals cause cancer? By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American The release of a study Friday linking cancer in rats to the type of radiation emitted by cell phones presents some of the strongest implications in more than two decades of research that higher doses of such signals could be… Continue reading
May 29 Watch 3:37 Drug tests present major hurdle for employers By PBS News Hour As the unemployment rate drops across the country, employers are running into another problem – finding potential job candidates who will take and pass drug tests. Even though the country is amid an opioid epidemic, employers say marijuana has been… Continue watching
May 28 Watch 3:33 Alzheimer's could be caused by past infections, researchers say By PBS News Hour More than five million Americans live with Alzheimer’s, a degenerative brain disease, and it is also the fifth leading cause of death for people over 65 years old in the U.S. A new study suggests it may stem from the… Continue watching