Jan 17 A third of asthma patients may not have asthma, study finds By Kristin Hugo A new study suggests many adult asthma patients are misdiagnosed or improperly managed, which leads to unnecessary drug treatments. Continue reading
Nov 20 Column: Reviving optimism for regenerative medicine By Jonathan Gertler, STAT The next wave of regenerative medicine research is tackling enormous health care issues: AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes and heart disease, among others. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch 8:30 Can ordinary citizens help fill gaps in U.S. health care? By Jason Kane and Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News In the midst of radical changes in health care policy, some U.S. providers are looking to an unlikely model: Sub-Saharan Africa, where ordinary citizens are trained as medical support for their communities. In the U.S., City Health Works is following… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch 3:22 In facing death, this doctor sees a way to live well By PBS News Hour Dr. BJ Miller does not work to heal patients, but to ensure quality of life amid advanced or serious illness. Sometimes people suggest his job is depressing, but Miller doesn’t see it that way. When people are dying it changes… Continue watching
Sep 25 Freeze-dried drug factories could make various medicines, just add water By Eric Boodman, STAT This device is called the Freezemobile, and it isn’t your standard household appliance. Continue reading
Aug 26 Watch 6:15 Syrian refugees find mental and physical rehabilitation in Jordan By PBS News Hour Now five years old, the war in Syria has taken an immense emotional and physical toll on those close to the fighting. Nisreen Katbi fled from Syria to Jordan four years ago and now runs a center that helps fellow… Continue watching
Aug 24 Watch 6:20 Price of EpiPens spikes, causing major health concerns By PBS News Hour Nearly everyone knows someone who carries an EpiPen due to a severe allergy. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn) is no different -- as a child, her daughter almost died from a reaction to nuts. But Mylan, the company that produces EpiPens,… Continue watching
Aug 15 Watch 11:41 Repeatedly targeted by airstrikes, Syrian doctors feel abandoned By Marcia Biggs In Syria’s ongoing war, doctors are under attack in the very places they expect to be safe: their hospitals. Last week, pro-government forces bombed a maternity hospital in the northwestern city of Idlib -- just one of the more than… Continue watching
Jul 07 Louis Pasteur’s risky move to save a boy from almost certain death By Dr. Howard Markel Louis Pasteur was hard at work developing a rabies vaccine, using dogs as his experimental subjects. Up until now, however, he had not administered the vaccine to a human being. Continue reading
May 31 This innovative, wound-filling sponge just saved its first soldier By News Desk XSTAT, a device designed to staunch bleeding from combat wounds -- when traditional methods are too slow or insufficient -- was successful in its first documented use in the field. Continue reading