• How a brain gets hooked on opioids

    How a brain gets hooked on opioids

    Oct 09, 2017 10:31 PM EDT

    ... pain. A person with opioid use disorder becomes preoccupied with the search for the drugs. Certain contexts become triggers for their cravings, and those triggers start overlapping in their minds. “The basic view is some people start with the pain trigger [the chronic back problem], but it gets partially substituted ...

  • Forget sharks: 7 things in the water swimmers should actually fear

    Forget sharks: 7 things in the water swimmers should actually fear

    Jul 22, 2017 07:52 PM EDT

    ... United States each year. Other symptoms include fever, abdominal pain, and the nagging feeling that you need to go to the bathroom. These symptoms usually start a couple days after swallowing a bit of contaminated water — usually at a lake or pond, but also at beaches. In most cases, rest ...

  • How one U.S. company is trying to surf the tides of foreign trade

    How one U.S. company is trying to surf the tides of foreign trade

    Sep 09, 2016 12:47 AM EDT

    ... coats the boards with fiberglass, told us back in 2013 that he was earning less, in real dollars, than he made 20 years before. Today, Naylor says he's doing better, but: DAVE NAYLOR: Only for the reason that, instead of just working one job, I got a little part ...

  • Zika virus a concern for poor urban areas along Gulf Coast

    Zika virus a concern for poor urban areas along Gulf Coast

    Jun 30, 2016 03:12 PM EDT

    ... Zika virus, and one example of the challenge facing public health officials. "I'm showing you Zika heaven," said Hotez, the tropical medicine dean at Baylor College of Medicine. Hotez and other tropical disease specialists are most concerned about impoverished urban areas along the Gulf Coast, where the numbers of ...

  • Is a perfect storm of Zika virus conditions coming to the Gulf Coast?

    Is a perfect storm of Zika virus conditions coming to the Gulf Coast?

    Apr 19, 2016 12:05 AM EDT

    ... it might mean in some cities in the southern parts of the country. He's the dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and a pediatrician and microbiologist at Texas Children's Hospital. I interviewed him from our New York studios. I want to ...

  • Changing the face of leadership in Nepal

    Changing the face of leadership in Nepal

    Aug 28, 2014 05:42 PM EDT

    They grew up in two different countries -- Claire Charamnac in Singapore and Claire Naylor in Nepal -- where they independently became conscious of the disadvantages women faced. After meeting at Georgetown University, they decided to do something about it. They focused on Nepal, which in recent years has made strides in ...

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    Texas Employs Aerial Spraying to Combat West Nile Virus Emergency

    Aug 16, 2012 10:02 PM EDT

    Texas Employs Aerial Spraying to Combat West Nile Virus Emergency

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    Bracket-Busting Cinderella Teams Enter 'Unprecedented' March Madness Final Four

    Mar 29, 2011 12:32 AM EDT

    Judy Woodruff talks to Sports Illustrated's Maggie Gray about the NCAA tournament.

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    Pregnant Women, Children Top H1N1 Vaccination Priority List

    Jul 29, 2009 09:17 PM EDT

    The Centers for Disease Control's advisory committee on immunization met Wednesday in an emergency session to set priorities for who should receive the H1N1 influenza vaccine now in development.

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    After the Deluge: Flooding in Houston

    Jun 14, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    Betty Ann Bowser reports from Houston where residents are cleaning up from a deadly flood.