Jul 21 Watch 9:19 Being shamed by a CEO turned this mom into a health privacy advocate By William Brangham, Jason Kane Deanna Fei was thrilled when her daughter, born premature at 25 weeks, came home from the hospital. Then, her husband’s boss – the CEO of AOL – claimed he was trimming workers’ retirement benefits because the company had spent too… Continue watching
Jul 21 Watch 9:02 How early treatment has changed the death sentence of AIDS By PBS News Hour At the 2015 International AIDS Society Conference, researchers confirmed that starting HIV patients on antiretroviral drugs early does prevent AIDS-related illness and deaths. Gwen Ifill talks to Justin Goforth of Whitman-Walker Health and U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx… Continue watching
Jul 21 How a Coney Island sideshow advanced medicine for premature babies By William Brangham Dr. Martin Couney created and ran incubator-baby exhibits on the island from 1903 to the early 1940s, and though he died in relative obscurity, he was one of the great champions of this lifesaving technology and is credited with saving… Continue reading
Jul 21 Study suggests that women with mild memory problems worsen faster than men By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press Older women with mild memory impairment worsened about twice as fast as men, researchers reported Tuesday, part of an effort to unravel why women are especially hard-hit by Alzheimer's. Continue reading
Jul 21 7.5 million Americans paid fine for having no health insurance in 2014 By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News About 7.5 million Americans paid an average penalty of $200 for not having health insurance in 2014 — the first year most Americans were required to have coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the Internal Revenue Service says. Continue reading
Jul 21 More children are in poverty today than before the Great Recession By Laura Santhanam, Megan Crigger Today, 22 percent of children live in poverty, up from 18 percent in 2008. Continue reading
Jul 20 Watch 8:06 Flying eye hospital delivers new outlooks to patients around the world By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jul 20 Is urgent care always a lower-cost alternative to the emergency room? By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn’t head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead. Continue reading
Jul 20 In my dad's final weeks, I was still in denial By Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee Editor's note: This is the fourth installment of cartoonist Jack Ohman's series "The Care Package," for PBS NewsHour. When editorial cartoonist Jack Ohman's father only had days left to live, he still wrote checks to pay his bills and… Continue reading
Jul 19 Higher-than-expected Medicaid enrollment numbers prompt state budget worries By Daniel Costa-Roberts A dozen states that chose to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have seen their enrollment numbers far outpace projections, raising budget concerns as the federal government gets set to reduce its funding for the expansions… Continue reading