May 10 Appeals Court Hears Virginia Health Care Reform Challenges By Sarah Clune Updated 5:30 p.m. ET | The federal appeals panel heard more than two hours of arguments Tuesday in the two Virginia lawsuits challenging the new health care reform law. The first case up was Liberty University's, argued by attorney Mathew… Continue reading
May 06 New Plan Aims to Shift How Hospitals Are Paid for Medicare Patients By Betty Ann Bowser The federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is finalizing a new reimbursement plan that will determine how hospitals get paid to take care of Medicare patients. The proposed rule calls for something called "value based purchasing," which… Continue reading
May 05 Top Global Health Headlines: Pakistan Aid After Bin Laden; Doctors Detained By Talea Miller Newsstand in Lahore on Tuesday. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Bin Laden Hideout Raises Pakistan Aid Questions The revelation that Osama bin Laden was living in a Pakistani city not far from Islamabad prior to his death has some… Continue reading
May 05 3D Transistors, Fertilizer Runoff and Frappuccino Straws How Intel's 3D Tech Redefines the Transistor (FAQ) Intel* announced today it will base all upcoming processors on 3D, or tri-gate transistors. This marks a move toward computers getting cheaper and faster. But we're waging that not a… Continue reading
May 04 House Votes to Cut Funding for State Health Insurance Exchanges By Sarah Clune House Republicans advanced their latest bill to dismantle the new health care law, with a Tuesday night vote to defund state health insurance exchanges. And while it's unlikely to pass the Senate any time soon, it's part of a… Continue reading
May 04 China Tries to Kick the Public Smoking Habit By Talea Miller Smoker in Nanjing, China. Photo by Flickr user J. Unrau. When the NewsHour's global health team visited China last year for stories on tobacco, obesity and other health issues, they found a smoker's paradise and an anti-tobacco advocate's nightmare. Continue reading
May 03 Accountable Care Organizations in Health Reform Decoded By Betty Ann Bowser Anybody who's got more than one medical condition knows the drill. You go to the cardiologist with a heart problem. You go to the orthopedic surgeon if your back hurts. You find an oncologist if you need chemotherapy. They all… Continue reading
Apr 29 Top 5 Global Health Headlines: Food Aid for N. Korea, China's Aging Population By Talea Miller A malnourished North Korean boy. Photo by WFP/Gerald Bourke. Emergency Food Aid Operation in North Korea The U.N. World Food Programme will deliver more than $200 million in emergency food aid to North Korea over the next year, the… Continue reading
Apr 28 Economist Film Project: Death at Birth in Nigeria By News Desk We're announcing the start of something new: A partnership with the Economist magazine to showcase the art of filmmaking, called the Economist Film Project. Together, the NewsHour and the Economist have chosen examples of interesting, independently-produced documentaries from around… Continue reading
Apr 27 Report: African-American Women at Higher Risk for Maternal Death in Calif. By Talea Miller In California, African-American women are dying of pregnancy related-causes at rates seen in some developing countries, and at four times the rate of white women and other ethnic groups in the state. A new report from the California Department… Continue reading