Mar 04 Why Is It So Hard To Fix Pay for Doctors Taking Medicare Patients? Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images While physicians have sidestepped drastic Medicare payment cuts for 2013, doctors' groups and lawmakers are gearing up for yet another battle to scrap the formula that forces Congress to consider the "doc fix"… Continue reading
Mar 04 Struck By a Turtle? Crushed By a Merchant Ship? There's a Code for That Struck by a turtle lately? No? Then surely you've been smacked by a raccoon, chicken ... or at the very least, a nonvenomous lizard. Well, regardless, starting in 2014, your doctor will be prepared when animals, lightning, or even… Continue reading
Mar 03 First Child Cured of HIV The first baby has been cured of HIV, researchers announced Sunday. The case was publicly unveiled at the 2013 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. The infant, who is now two and a half years old,… Continue reading
Mar 01 Watch Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court Shields and Brooks on the Cusp of Sequester, Voting Rights Act at Supreme Court… Continue watching
Mar 01 Sequester Spotlight: Virginia's Military Region The self-imposed March 1 deadline to broker a deal to avert across-the-board budget cuts in discretionary spending known as sequestration has passed and lawmakers have left town for the weekend. NewsHour is talking with our public media partner stations… Continue reading
Mar 01 Sequestration Spotlight: Research Community Gets Involved Add the nation's research community to those joining the chorus of upset voices decrying automatic, across-the-board spending cuts that will begin going into effect Friday. The American Association for the Advancement of Science is calling on Congress to develop a… Continue reading
Mar 01 Sequester Kicking In After Failure to Communicate President Barack Obama addressed sequestration in a press conference from the White House today. "This is not going to be an apocalypse. ... It's just dumb. And it's going to hurt," he said, referring to the $85 billion in cuts… Continue reading
Mar 01 With 50 Million Hungry in U.S., New Film Demands 'A Place at the Table' EmbedVideo(5858, 482, 304); The classroom sometimes gets a little blurry for Rosie, a fifth-grader in Colorado. And when it does -- when she starts picturing her teacher as a banana or her classmates as apples -- Rosie… Continue reading
Mar 01 Seawater Saltiness Seen from Space The ocean, by some estimates, holds enough salt to cover the entire surface of the Earth, layered to the height of a 40-story office building. Much of the salt in the ocean comes from rock that gets… Continue reading
Mar 01 Gwen's Take: The Blame Game and Other Perplexing Things The man in my audience at Ohio University this week was exasperated. Why, he wondered, can't Washington get its act together? Why indeed? I can't say I had a good answer. But it was clear that -- in Athens,… Continue reading