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
May 27 Watch 4:40 'Top Chef' Tom Colicchio on America's staggering waste of food The United States wastes roughly 70 billion pounds of food every year, an estimated quarter of all food produced in the country. Now, TV “Top Chef” Tom Colicchio aims to bring the issue to the highest levels of government with… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 8:03 Meet the 'courtroom dogs' who help child crime victims tell their stories By PBS News Hour Getting child crime victims to open up is never easy for investigators and asking them to tell their stories to a jury can be brutally traumatizing. To help these kids overcome their fears, some courtrooms across the country are employing… Continue watching
May 27 Watch 52:36 PBS NewsHour full episode May 27, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima and pays tribute to the bombing victims. Also: Inside Obama’s nuclear legacy, a new film recognizes American POWs killed at Hiroshima, the fight for food… Continue watching
May 27 Major U.S. study links cellphone exposure to cancer in rats By Megan Thielking, Dylan Scott, STAT A major new study provides evidence of a possible link between cellphone exposure and cancer, at least in rats — findings that are likely to spark a fierce new debate about the 21st century’s most ubiquitous tech gadget. Continue reading
May 26 Watch 4:38 New 'superbug' becomes first drug-proof bacteria to hit U.S. By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 26 MIT's tiny portable drug-making lab can replace an entire factory By Martha Bebinger, WBUR This prototype machine produces 1,000 pills in 24 hours, faster than it can take to produce some batches in a factory. Continue reading
May 25 Watch 7:03 Scientists still track health fallout of nuclear bombing of Japan By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 25 Watch 4:07 Long wait times for health care still dogging troubled Veterans Affairs department By PBS News Hour When Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald compared the exceptionally-long wait times veterans still endure to get health care to lines at Disneyland, a national firestorm erupted. House Speaker Paul Ryan said his words reflected a “culture of indifference” and McDonald… Continue watching