Dec 14 Watch 3:27 Parents, beware the cost of over-helping your kids By PBS News Hour Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of “How to Raise an Adult,” shares her essay on why she believes it is important for parents to get over overparenting. Continue watching
Dec 14 California to increase addiction treatment for Medicaid recipients By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News California is overhauling its substance abuse treatment system for low-income people, embarking on a massive experiment to create a smoother path for addicts from detox through recovery. Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch 1:51 Medical testing on chimpanzees no longer allowed, the National Institutes of Health says By PBS News Hour The National Institutes of Health has decided that it will no longer allow its chimpanzees to be used for biomedical research for human health. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports. Continue watching
Dec 13 Abortions drop by 35 percent since the 1970s, report says By Michael D. Regan A CDC report says abortions rates have dropped by a third since the 1970s, something experts attribute in part to birth control use and decisions to start a family later in life. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch 7:33 A little-known casualty of the Cold War? U.S. nuclear workers By PBS News Hour More than 33,000 men and women who worked at nuclear facilities have died from related illnesses, and more than 100,000 Americans were diagnosed with cancer and other diseases after helping build the country's nuclear stockpile. That toll had never fully… Continue watching
Dec 10 The story behind Alfred Nobel’s spirit of discovery By Dr. Howard Markel Every Dec. 10 for the past 114 years, the eyes of the world have turned to Stockholm, Sweden, where the Nobel Prizes are formally awarded to the brilliant men and women who have made exemplary inroads in Medicine or Physiology,… Continue reading
Dec 09 Watch 7:59 Living with stress for too long may be giving kids asthma By PBS News Hour The number of Americans diagnosed with asthma has grown dramatically, with high-crime cities being hit especially hard. In a joint report with The Detroit News, special correspondent Indira Lakshmanan examines emerging research that indicates stress, abuse and violence may play… Continue watching
Dec 09 Why stress may be fueling the childhood asthma epidemic By Karen Bouffard, The Detroit News In a study done exclusively for The Detroit News and PBS NewsHour, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found about 2 of every 3 children in Detroit face “adverse childhood experiences,” such as household substance abuse,… Continue reading
Dec 09 Don’t blame grandma yet, but your asthma may be her fault By Nsikan Akpan Emerging research into epigenetics may rewrite the fates of those dealing with diseases like asthma, schizophrenia and obesity. Continue reading
Dec 07 Watch How an environmental group is trying to clean up China’s pollution problem By PBS News Hour China, the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, has paid a great environmental price for becoming the world's factory. But experts say there is growing political will in Beijing to tackle the crisis. Special correspondent Fred de Sam… Continue watching