Jun 03 Watch Vaccination, Education Key to Stemming Asian Hepatitis Outbreaks Spencer Michels reports on the campaigns to fight hepatitis B among Asian populations worldwide. The potentially fatal liver disease is100 times more likely to afflict Asians than non-Asians. Continue watching
Jun 03 Watch Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic As the government highlights the growing health risks of childhood obesity, Betty Ann Bowser reports from the Mississippi Delta on how so-called "food deserts" keep some communities from access to healthy food. Continue watching
Jun 02 Watch China Tries to Put Best Foot Forward With Shanghai World Expo As part of his series from China, Ray Suarez reports on the ongoing 2010 Shanghai Expo, where the large and decadent Chinese pavilion captures the country in transition. Continue watching
Jun 01 Reporter's Notebook: Obesity on the Rise in China By Ray Suarez If one picture from China can tell a story of how this country has changed in the 21st century, it's one of a line of youths boarding a bus in front of a hospital for a field trip. It's a… Continue reading
Jun 01 Watch For China's Growing Middle Class, Expanding Waistlines Pose Problem In the second in his series of reports from China on global health issues, Ray Suarez reports on the dramatic increase in obesity as the country's growing class of educated and well-paid consumers adopt some Western-style shopping and eating habits. Continue watching
May 31 Reporter's Notebook: China's Conflict of Interest on Tobacco By Ray Suarez // It was interesting, kind of retro, to be in a country where so many people still light up, where so many stores were selling cigarettes, and the telltale odor of smoke, or a just-stubbed out butt, seemed ever present. Continue reading
May 31 World No Tobacco Day Focuses on Rising Number of Female Smokers By Lea Winerman Women in the developing world could be the next growth market for tobacco companies, the World Health Organization warns on World No Tobacco Day. Continue reading
May 31 Watch China Faces Growing Health Crisis from Prevalent Tobacco Use In the first of three global health reports from China, Ray Suarez examines the work of anti-tobacco advocates in China, where the government -- which is a huge producer of tobacco products -- has done little to quash the deadly… Continue watching
May 24 Lancet Study: Child Death Rates Dropping Around the World By Talea Miller Fewer children are dying around the world each year and the decline in child deaths is accelerating, according to a study published Monday in the Lancet. The research, done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at… Continue reading
May 20 Researchers Build First 'Synthetic Cell' By Lea Winerman Researchers have created the first cell powered by a man-made genome, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Science. The genetic code of the cell was stitched together in a laboratory. "This is the… Continue reading