U.S. Government Releases New Plans for Pandemic Flu
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioRAY SUAREZ: For years, government and health officials have been warning the U.S. needs a more comprehensive strategy to combat a global flu...
View ArticleAs Costs Rise, Businesses Struggle to Provide Worker Health Insurance
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioJIM LEHRER: Now, the third and final story in our health care series pegged to the challenges facing the new Congress and the Obama...
View ArticleConcern Grows Over Deadly Outbreak of Salmonella Poisoning
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioMARGARET WARNER: Concern over the deadly nationwide outbreak of salmonella continues to grow. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration...
View ArticleH1N1 Flu Virus Death Toll Reaches 42 in Mexico
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: The number of flu cases in the U.S. kept growing to more than 640, and the death toll in Mexico rose to 42. For more about the...
View ArticleStudy: H1N1 Replicates, Spreads Faster Than Seasonal Flu
In the study, conducted on ferrets, levels of the H1N1 swine flu virus rose more quickly than seasonal flu and the new virus caused more severe disease. The H1N1 virus was also transmitted more easily....
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Friday’s Art Notes
Artists arrive at The Royal Academy of Arts to hand in works completed for the 242nd Summer Exhibition in London. The Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission contemporary art exhibition in...
View ArticleA Decade on, Human Genome Research Yet to Directly Affect Many Patients
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioJEFFREY BROWN: And finally tonight: the impact of a revolution in genetic science. It was 10 years ago this week that researchers mapped out...
View ArticleMozambique Looks to Battle Illnesses to Boost Kids’ IQs, Economy
This video is not currently available. | Listen to the AudioJIM LEHRER: Next tonight: the connections between childhood illnesses and intelligence.That’s the subject of Ray Suarez and our Global Health...
View ArticleHow Will Steve Jobs’ Latest Hiatus Affect Apple, Tech World?
This video is not currently available.GWEN IFILL: Now, a CEO’s departure and its potential impact. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ announcement that he will step aside because of health issues, his third...
View Article‘Minds on the Edge’ Explores Public Policy Hurdles of Mental Illness
This video is not currently available.GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight: how mental illness challenges public policy. The Tucson shootings forced that issue back to the front burner, but it’s a debate that...
View ArticleWhat’s Behind 9% Jump in Employer-Paid Health Insurance Premiums?
JUDY WOODRUFF: And to the rising cost of health insurance, which appears to be surging once again. A new survey of businesses found that annual premiums for a family of four climbed to $15,000 this...
View ArticleVirus Hunter Tracks New and Deadly Pathogens Around the Globe
RAY SUAREZ: Finally tonight, the work of a scientist who spends his days tracking killer diseases. A nondescript office building in downtown San Francisco may seem like an unlikely headquarters for one...
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Fungal disease ‘Valley Fever’ proves tricky to diagnose
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioVALERIE GOROSPE: It was the very first weekend of May and she woke up from her sleep just not feeling good and then she was just really tired and she had a cough that...
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Two Listeria recalls raise questions about ice cream manufacturing
Blue Bell Ice Cream is seen on shelves of an Overland Park grocery store prior to being removed on April 21, 2015 in Overland Park, Kansas. Blue Bell Creameries recalled all products following Listeria...
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A poet sees the light after the darkness of illness
Judith Barrington is the author of four collections of poetry. Three and a half years ago, Judith Barrington went to the hospital for what she thought was a severe migraine. Instead, doctors discovered...
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