PBS高端访谈:科技正在转化为简易的医疗急救措施

GWEN IFILL: When it comes to global health, much attention is now focused on Ebola. But more routine diseases take a toll on the world's poorest people every day. In Seattle, there's a not-for-profit group trying to develop new tools and medicines to

PBS高端访谈:越来越多的美国土著部落正效仿科罗拉多的大麻制度

RICK KARR: Marijuana grower and retailer Andy Williams can barely keep up with the demand for his product these days. He says he can't imagine a more exciting and lucrative industry to be in right now. But the buzz is all coming from capitalism. He d

PBS高端访谈:美国应该如何控制和管理致瘾性止痛药?

JUDY WOODRUFF: Each day, 46 people die in this country after overdosing on prescription painkillers. In 2012 alone, the CDC says 259 million prescriptions were written for painkillers, enough to supply every American adult with a bottle of pills. Now

PBS高端访谈:面对流感的肆虐,卫生部鼓励使用抗病毒药物

JUDY WOODRUFF: No doubt about it, we're in the middle of flu season, and this one is shaping up to be a particularly tough slog, possibly the worst since 2008. The Centers for Disease Control report that flu activity is widespread in 46 states. In fa

PBS高端访谈:儿童肥胖已经得到控制,但种族间的差异仍然存在

JUDY WOODRUFF: Childhood obesity remains one of the largest public health problems in the United States. There have been a number of major campaigns to combat it. And, today, those efforts got a big boost. Here's Jeffrey Brown. JEFFREY BROWN: There h

PBS高端访谈:当你去世的时候,你的医疗账单不会就此消失

GWEN IFILL: Our next story is about Medicaid. The government health insurance program recently expanded to millions of Americans. Although often considered free health insurance for the poor, federal law requires Medicaid to charge recipients for cer

PBS高端访谈:鲨鱼皮可能会成为抵抗超级细菌的秘密武器

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: sharks. Just saying the word can send shivers down the spines of some, but as Hari Sreenivasan found in this report, studying their skin could be key to fighting diease and is on the cutting edge of the larger push announced at th

PBS高端访谈:旧金山将如何完成降低感染艾滋病人数的宏伟计划?

JOHN CARLOS FREY: At Ward 86, a bustling outpatient HIV clinic at San Francisco General Hospital, nurse Diane Jones drops everything when this pager goes off. It means that someone in the city just tested HIV positive. DIANE JONES: So, I'm going to m

PBS高端访谈:希拉里参加总统竞选:我们没有真的了解这个女人?

GWEN IFILL: Now joining me for analysis this Politics Monday, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR, who is in Iowa tonight, waiting, waiting, waiting on Hillary Clinton. Tamara, let's start by talking about Senator Clinton,

PBS高端访谈:你有被你的医疗保健税的处罚惊到了么?

JUDY WOODRUFF: The deadline for filing your taxes is just hours away, and for several million Americans, this year is turning out to be even more complicated than usual. It's the first time since the health care law was enacted that individuals must

PBS高端访谈:比起英国和沙特阿拉伯,为什么美国女性难产致死的人数更多?

ALISON STEWART: The number of women in the U.S. who die in childbirth is nearing the highest rate in a quarter-century. An estimated 18.5 mothers died for every 100,000 births in 2013, compared with 7.2 in 1987. The Post reports that this translates

PBS高端访谈:为什么爱荷华的禽流感爆发的如此猛烈?

HARI SREENIVASAN: As we reported yesterday, the nation's largest egg-producing state, Iowa, has declared a state of emergency following a major outbreak of the avian flu. Millions of chickens and turkeys there and in Wisconsin and Minnesota have been

PBS高端访谈:为什么我们要让计算机学会诊断癌症?

GWEN IFILL: Now we continue our series about artificial intelligence, A.I., where computers are able to make intelligent decisions without human input. As computing power gets stronger and people continue to generate massive amounts of data, A.I. is

PBS高端访谈:新的癌症治疗方法将聚焦于致病基因的突变

HARI SREENIVASAN: Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, I'm joi

PBS高端访谈:随着公共医疗补助制度的深化,失足者拥有了医疗保险

GWEN IFILL: Now: bringing health care to an often-forgotten population. One out of three of those newly eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are expected to be former inmates after their release from prison or jail. It's a story that h

PBS高端访谈:为什么我们要为过度饮酒而买单?

JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: A new report from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shines a light on the dangers of overindulging in alcohol. Hari Sreenivasan, in our New York studio, has that. HARI SREENIVASAN: The study ranks excessive al

PBS高端访谈:儿科癌症幸存者不得不面临一生的健康挑战

JUDY WOODRUFF: Almost 80 percent of children who are diagnosed with cancer today in the U.S. survive, thanks in large part to advances in treatments like radiation and chemotherapy. But a growing body of research indicates survivors are at greater ri

PBS高端访谈:乌干达艾滋病患者的福音

JUDY WOODRUFF: New HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have fallen so dramatically in recent years that it may be possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it altogether. That's the projection in a new U.N. report released in adv

PBS高端访谈:为什么埃博拉病毒如此猖狂

GWEN IFILL: Despite new pledges of aid, international leaders provided downbeat assessments of the current battle against Ebola. The head of the World Bank said the international community community had quote failed miserably in its initial response.

PBS高端访谈:埃博拉病毒在非洲西部的爆发规模加大

HARI SREENIVASAN: For more about the situation in West Africa where more than 4,000 people have died of the disease, we're joined now via Skype by Drew Hinshaw of The Wall Street Journal. He recently was in Sierra Leone and Liberia and joins us tonig