Mar 27 Tips for health and sanity that every caregiver needs By Leah Eskenazi, Family Caregiver Alliance Almost everyone would agree that lending a hand to help a family member or someone else in need is the right thing to do. But is there a price that we pay for doing so?… Continue reading
Mar 27 Join PBS NewsHour to discuss 'The Emperor of All Maladies' with Barak Goodman By Nora Daly Join PBS NewsHour for an exclusive Twitter chat with Ken Burns to discuss the making of the series, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies."… Continue reading
Mar 26 Watch 4:50 House approves permanent fix for Medicare doctor payment By PBS News Hour For more than a decade, doctors who treat Medicare patients have been threatened with pay cuts due to a faulty formula of how doctors are reimbursed. But in a rare bipartisan agreement, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a deal… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Designing disease-resistant robots for the front lines of the Ebola crisis By PBS News Hour Continue watching
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