Apr 04 Watch Estimating the Soaring Price Tag and Other Costs of Dementia Care Estimating the Soaring Price Tag and Other Costs of Dementia Care… Continue watching
Feb 20 Watch Will U.S. Forge Public-Private Partnership to Draw Brain Activity Map? In his State of the Union address, President Obama proposed a decade-long effort to map the activity of the brain. To understand the president's plan and walk through the possible implications, Ray Suarez talks to Dr. Francis Collins, director of… Continue watching
Jul 09 U.S. Government to Fund H1N1 Vaccinations By PBS News Hour The U.S. government plans to fund a vaccination program against the new H1N1 swine flu this fall, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Thursday. Continue reading
Feb 25 Study Links Alcohol, Cancer Risk in Women By Admin, PBS News Hour Drinking even one alcoholic drink per day can increase a woman's risk of developing several types of cancers, according to a new study of nearly 1.3 million women in the UK. Continue reading
Feb 05 Supreme Court’s Ginsburg Has Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer By Admin, PBS News Hour Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Thursday after being diagnosed with what is apparently early-stage pancreatic cancer, the high court said. Continue reading
Aug 05 Watch Men over 75 Urged to Skip Prostate Cancer Screening Medical care for older men may change after a federal task force recommended Monday that men older than 75 not get screened for prostate cancer, the second-deadliest-type among males. A National Institutes of Health official presents the concerns behind the… Continue watching
Jul 14 Watch Pioneering Heart Surgeon Michael DeBakey Dies at 99 Michael DeBakey, the prolific and influential heart surgeon who performed the first successful bypass operation, died July 11 in Houston at age 99. DeBakey's colleague and former student looks back on his medical legacy. Continue watching
Apr 08 After 25 Years, AIDS Vaccine Research Makes Mid-course Correction By PBS News Hour It took 47 years to develop a polio vaccine, 42 to develop a measles vaccine and 105 for typhoid. So historically speaking, at 24 years in, research on the AIDS vaccine is still young. Continue reading
Mar 26 U.S. Seeks AIDS Vaccine Research Overhaul By Admin, PBS News Hour The head of the federal government's AIDS vaccine research program said Tuesday that the focus should shift from large-scale human vaccine trials back to basic research. Continue reading
Feb 07 Watch Diabetes Study Partially Halted Due to Cardiac Risk A new study on Type 2 diabetes was partially halted after research showed lowering blood sugar levels for some high-risk patients increased their chances of dying from a heart attack. The head of the American Diabetes Association details the surprising… Continue watching