Aug 10 Watch 6:24 Missionary recounts Ebola fight as both doctor and patient By Hari Sreenivasan, Jason Kane Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola while treating patients during last year's epidemic in West Africa. He was airlifted from Liberia back to the U.S. and received an experimental drug and other treatment at Emory University Hospital. Brantly joins Hari Sreenivasan… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch 9:49 New guidelines may encourage end-of-life discussions By PBS News Hour A national movement to normalize end-of-life discussions among family and friends is on the rise. With Medicare planning to cover these conversations with physicians, The Conversation Project, a Boston-based non-profit, is highlighting the importance of talking openly about dying. Special… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch 4:45 What caused the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in NYC? By PBS News Hour New York is facing the largest outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in its history: eight people have died from the respiratory illness since early July, and nearly 100 cases have been reported. Hari Sreenivasan learns more from Dr. Anne Schuchat of… Continue watching
Aug 06 Over-the-phone therapy helps older adults in rural areas By Lisa Gillespie, Kaiser Health News Therapy provided over the phone lowered symptoms of anxiety and depression among older adults in rural areas with a lack of mental health services, a new study shows. Continue reading
Aug 05 Patients say they can't get medicine after crackdown on illegal Rx drugs By Rachel Gotbaum, Kaiser Health News In what may be an unintended side effect of a crackdown on prescription drug abuse, legitimate chronic pain patients are having increasing trouble getting the medicine that allows them to function on a daily basis. Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch 5:55 CDC offers new call to arms on nightmare bacteria By PBS News Hour Drug-resistant bacteria infect at least 2 million people and kill 23,000 each year. Now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a call to slow the rate of hospital-acquired infections. Gwen Ifill talks to Dr. Michael Bell from… Continue watching
Aug 02 Watch 3:18 To stem addiction, recreational drug users tapped for clinical abuse trials By PBS News Hour Major pharmaceutical companies are reportedly recruiting thousands of recreational drug users to test a new generation of medicines that deter addiction, which could have a significant impact in the fight against prescription drug addiction. Financial Times reporter David Crow joins… Continue watching
Aug 02 The 'strange' death of Warren G. Harding By Dr. Howard Markel At 7:20 p.m. on the evening of Aug. 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding’s wife, Florence, was reading the “Saturday Evening Post” to him in the presidential suite of San Francisco’s Palace Hotel. The article in question was about Mr. Continue reading
Jul 31 Watch 4:29 Kids with disabilities, behavior problems illegally segregated in Georgia By PBS News Hour The Department of Justice has concluded that the state of Georgia is illegally segregating students with disabilities and behavioral issues. A two-year investigation found that some of the programs are even housed in dilapidated buildings once used as all black… Continue watching
Jul 31 Watch 5:01 How long-lasting is promising Ebola vaccine protection? By PBS News Hour A clinical trial in Guinea found that an experimental vaccine was 75 to 100 percent effective in blocking new infections of the Ebola virus. Hari Sreenivasan speaks to Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health about the vaccine. Continue watching