Mar 25 Obama ready to sign bill revamping Medicare doctor fees By Alan Fram and Nedra Pickler, Associated Press President Barack Obama said Wednesday he's ready to sign "good, bipartisan" legislation protecting physicians from steep cuts in Medicare reimbursements and bolstering health programs for children and the poor as Senate Democrats seemed to soften their opposition to the package. Continue reading
Mar 25 Texas bill would prohibit doctors from asking about guns By Edgar Walters, Texas Tribune While legislation expanding how and where Texans can carry weapons is dominating the Legislature this week, one state lawmaker is targeting the doctor’s office as a place to keep the federal government from learning who owns guns. Continue reading
Mar 24 Watch 7:05 The Medicaid bill that doesn’t go away when you die By PBS News Hour Medicaid is thought of as free health insurance for the poor, but federal law requires that recipients pay for the costs of long-term care. And when patients die, Medicaid charges the expenses to the leftover assets in their estates, sometimes… Continue watching
Mar 24 Uninsured down more than 11 million since passage of Obama’s health care law, CDC reports By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The number of uninsured U.S. residents fell by more than 11 million since President Barack Obama signed the health care overhaul five years ago, according to a pair of reports Tuesday from the federal Centers for Disease Control… Continue reading
Mar 24 The day we discovered the cause of the ‘white death’ By Dr. Howard Markel Robert Koch’s greatest evening unfolded 133 years ago today, when he solved the riddle that had plagued doctors for centuries: what, exactly, caused tuberculosis?… Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch 10:42 When babies die, a disputed diagnosis sends parents to prison for abuse By Jackie Judd, Jason Kane Continue watching
Mar 22 Study finds growing use of antibiotics in livestock across globe By Rebecca Lee In 2010, farmers across the globe used more than 63, 000 tons of antibiotics annually, the study estimated. Continue reading
Mar 22 Estimated 16 million gained insurance since health law took effect By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The polemic around "Obamacare" hasn't cooled much in five years, and the permanence of the president's achievement remains in question as the nation awaits the outcome of a Supreme Court case that could jeopardize insurance for nearly 8 million people. Continue reading
Mar 21 After 28 days without a case, new Ebola patient confirmed in Liberia By Daniel Costa-Roberts Following weeks of rising optimism during which no one in Liberia was diagnosed with Ebola, health officials in the West African country announced Friday that a new patient had tested positive for the deadly virus. Continue reading
Mar 21 Watch New drug shows promise slowing Alzheimer’s in early tests By PBS News Hour In what could be a big step forward in the battle against Alzheimer's Disease, a new drug that during tests sharply slowed the cognitive decline of people with the debilitating disease. Dr. Samuel Gandy, a neurologist and Associate Director of… Continue watching