Jan 13 Watch Haiti Slow to Rebuild in Aftermath of Devastating Quake Jeffrey Brown traveled to Haiti to look at the struggle to rebuild and recover a year after a massive earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince and nearby area. Continue watching
Jan 12 In Photos: A Year of Tragedy and Survival in Haiti By Talea Miller Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more. Rick Loomis, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Haiti one… Continue reading
Jan 11 Reporter's Notebook: Memories from Haiti, One Year After the Quake By Ray Suarez Ray Suarez in Haiti, July 2010 This past summer, I stood at the edge of a fetid pool of standing water. Marooned in the middle of the deepening pool were two forlorn soccer goals, indicating a place that wasn't always… Continue reading
Jan 11 Watch After Haiti Quake, Using Science to Build Sturdier Buildings As Haiti recovers from the devastating earthquake that flattened Port-au-Prince one year ago, researchers are examining how the country can lessen the damage from another disaster using building science. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports. Continue watching
Jan 11 Watch In Loughner Case, Missed Signals and a Troubled Mental Past Friends, neighbors and classmates recall a troubled Jared Lee Loughner, prone to angry outbursts and anti-social behavior. A panel of mental health experts discusses the missed signals and challenges of cases like Loughner's. Continue watching
Jan 10 Tears and Testosterone, Interstellar Dust Clouds and a Medical Mystery, Unsolved In Women's Tears, a Chemical that Says, 'Not Tonight, Dear' When a man gets close enough to sniff a woman's tears, his sex drive and hormone levels drop, but his mood and empathy remain unchanged, according to… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch In Haiti, Hardships Plentiful as Earthquake Anniversary Nears Jeffrey Brown begins a week of reports from Haiti, one year after a major earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other parts of the country. Many residents remain in tent camps, where they are still struggling to rebuild their lives… Continue watching
Jan 06 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Rape in Haiti Tent Camps, India Rejects HIV Patent By Talea Miller Corail tent camp outside Port-au-Prince. NewsHour photo. Rape in Haiti Camps The risk of rape and other sex crimes for women living in Haiti's tent camps has increased over the past year, according to an Amnesty International report released… Continue reading
Jan 06 Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti By Jeffrey Brown Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch In Sudan, Possible New Country Poses Health Care System Challenges Less than 30 percent of people in southern Sudan have access to adequate health care. Widespread disease is threatening to overwhelm the African nation, where an upcoming secession referendum appears likely to create a new country. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye… Continue watching