Jan 07 H1N1 Vaccine Reaching Poorer Nations as Flu Fears Continue to Wane By Talea Miller Developing nations will begin receiving donated H1N1 vaccine Thursday, just as the U.S. shortage is waning and some European nations find themselves with more vaccine than they can handle. Continue reading
Jan 01 Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight With Free Surgeries By Carolyn O'Hara Friday on the NewsHour, a second look at a Fred de Sam Lazaro report from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics, the largest such system in the world. These clinics subsidize sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients… Continue reading
Dec 29 Cash Incentives for Healthy Families in Mexico By Talea Miller Getting paid to keep your family healthy? That’s the idea behind Mexico’s innovative conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, which gives cash payouts to parents who take steps to keep themselves and their children well. The program is an effort to… Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch Psychiatric Demands Jump as India Battles Mental Illness Mark Scheffler of GlobalPost looks at the ailing profession of psychiatry in India, where only a handful of doctors are equipped to handle the increasing demands of mental health there. Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch In Mexico, a Plan to Beat Poverty With Health Care and Education In the next installment of his series on Mexico, Ray Suarez examines how the government is lifting people out of poverty and inspiring nations throughout the world to do the same. Continue watching
Dec 28 Preview: When Americans Head to Mexico to Avoid Healthcare Costs By Talea Miller Among the sidebars in the debate over health care reform is the trend of U.S. citizens without health insurance or comprehensive coverage making their way south of the border to Mexico, where major surgeries are often performed for a fraction… Continue reading
Dec 28 Watch Retirees Flock to Mexico for the Sun and the Health Care Thousands of Americans are increasingly traveling to resort towns like Puerto Vallarta, in Mexico, not for vacation, but for the cheap health care. In many cases, reports Ray Suarez, for care they couldn't afford in the United States. Continue watching
Dec 24 Watch As Global Temperatures Rise, So Too Do Health Risks While there may be debate over what's causing global climate change, there are far fewer questions about the effect of a warming planet on human health, reports Ray Suarez. Continue watching
Dec 23 Somalia, Pakistan Rank Among Top Crises of 2009 By Larisa Epatko When reviewing 2009's humanitarian emergencies, several international aid organizations cited the massive needs of those displaced by fighting in places such as Somalia and Pakistan, and growing obstacles to accessing those in need of help. Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch A Look at Climate Change After Copenhagen In the aftermath of the Copenhagen climate summit, about the only thing certain is the need for more talks. Ray Suarez speaks with Jeffrey Brown about how the nonbinding agreement struck in Copenhagen will impact future negotiations. Continue watching