Jan 05 Study finds gap in Medicaid's efforts to help people stop smoking By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News The 2010 federal health law has a provision that was supposed to make it easier for people on Medicaid to quit smoking. But in a number of states, it’s not, so far, having widespread success. Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch 7:54 Wounded vets can't get help with in vitro fertilization costs By PBS News Hour U.S. military veterans who are having trouble starting families due to combat injuries do not get financial assistance from the V.A. for in vitro fertilization, leaving couples to pay for the costly treatments themselves. Efforts made in Congress to change… Continue watching
Jan 03 Watch 3:14 Financial incentives prompt rural hospitals to perform more surgeries—but at a greater risk By PBS News Hour An investigation by The Wall Street Journal found that surgeries performed at so-called critical access hospitals in mostly rural areas carry a greater risk of complications than those at general hospitals. And financial incentives lead the small facilities to perform… Continue watching
Jan 03 U.S. repeals meat labeling law after trade rulings against it By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal's country of origin on packages of red meat. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 8:08 Why we shouldn't let the food industry dictate our diets By PBS News Hour Michael Pollan's bestselling book "In Defense of Food" was a call to arms for making real food a bigger part of Americans' diets. Now he takes that push to PBS with a new documentary. He joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 9:15 2015's biggest breakthrough could deliver designer babies By PBS News Hour CRISPR, a new method for editing genes, has been called a development that could revolutionize medicine. Cheaper and more precise than past gene editing, this promising tool has also raised concerns. Gwen Ifill talks to Jennifer Doudna of University of… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 5:54 Guinea reaches Ebola-free milestone, but wariness lingers By PBS News Hour Guinea, the first country hit with the deadly Ebola outbreak nearly two years ago, is now free of the disease, according the the World Health Organization. More than 2,500 people died in that nation before the virus was fully contained. Continue watching
Dec 28 Watch 7:28 Is it really gluten-free? You could soon test it table-side By PBS News Hour For people with food allergies or sensitivities, the pleasure of dining out can be dampened by the stress of not knowing exactly what goes into what you're ordering. Now a San Francisco startup wants to take away the uncertainty with… Continue watching
Dec 25 Watch 6:18 How drug companies are gaming an old law for greater profits By PBS News Hour In the 1980s, a law was passed to persuade pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs for small populations, but now that rule is being used to reclaim old "orphaned" drugs in order to raise prices and profits. Gwen Ifill learns more… Continue watching
Dec 24 Ending HIV may hinge on erasing economic disparities By Barbara Feder Ostrov, Kaiser Health News While life expectancies are approaching the national norm among white, affluent gay men, about 66 percent of the 1.2 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States are not in treatment. Continue reading