Week of May 31, 2006

ABC News: Primetime

Video: Foster Care -- A Call to Action
Diane Sawyer
May 31, 2006
"Four young children found eating from a raw deer carcass in Kentucky. A 3-year-old in Oregon, behaving oddly, panting, licking food off the floor. Apparently imitating his companion, the family dog, in the home of his methamphetamine addicted mother. A teenager, visiting her mom in jail, hoping against experience that this time her mom's rehab will take. In the meantime, entering her sixth placement in a foster home...So what if we made a commitment to stop bouncing kids from home to home to home? What if we asked communities to band together, to find homes, to support damaged families, to help these kids have a better chance for a normal life? What if, instead of lurching from horror story to horror story, we agreed to do what works."

ABC World News Tonight

Video: Autism and Adults -- Finding Independence
John Donvan
May 30, 2006
"There's been a lot of attention focused on the unexplained swell of children with autism that began in the 1990s and now affects one in every 166 births in the United States. But there are adults, like Paul DiSavino, who were ahead of that wave. He was born in 1968 and made it through childhood and adolescence long ago. At age 37, he's well into manhood...He's found a place to live his adult life, in a group home in New Milford, N.J., that he shares with other disabled adults. But places like the group home where he lives -- places that both liberate and shelter an adult with autism -- are still extremely rare." (A two-day series; related story)

CBS Evening News

Video: Aid Flows Into Indonesia
Barry Petersen
May 30, 2006
"Indonesia's earthquake death toll has topped 5,000. As Barry Petersen reports, the powerful quake struck the island of Java, the same region threatened by a volcano that could erupt any time." (Requires Real Player)

NBC Nightly News

Video: 'American Boomers' Stay Active
Don Teague
May 30, 2006
"The new retirement is a long way from the traditional rocking chair. NBC’s Don Teague reports on how Baby Boomers are turning to active retirements." (Related story, video requires Internet Explorer)

The News Hour with Jim Lehrer

Video: AIDS Continues To Shape U.S., World Policies
Ray Suarez
May 30, 2006
"The HIV/AIDS epidemic has shaped health policy, politics and medicine in the U.S. and world over the last 25 years."

CNN

Video: Stroke Therapies Coming of Age
Christy Feig
May 26, 2006
"New stroke therapies may help victims survive when time is not on their side."

Week of May 24, 2006

CNN

Video: Bird Flu Scams Prey on Fears
Randi Kaye
May 24, 2006
"A federal official warns about fake claims of bird flu cures on the Internet."

Video: Ground Zero for Avian Flu
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
May 24, 2006
"Ames, Iowa, houses a lab that will confirm if -- or when -- the bird flu virus arrives in the U.S." (Related AP story)

PBS: Frontline

Video: Sex Slaves
May 23, 2006
"An undercover journey deep into the world of sex trafficking, following one man determined to rescue his wife -- kidnapped and sold into the global sex trade."

NBC Nightly News

Video: Bono Leverages Celebrity To Impact Africa
Brian Williams
May 23, 2006
"Nine-thousand Africans die daily from disease, poverty or illness. But as Brian Williams reports, one rock star from Ireland has made it his personal mission to change that." (Requires Internet Explorer; Full coverage of the two-day report)

ABC World News Tonight

Video: Inside the Darfur Crisis
David Wright
May 23, 2006
"Violence continues in Darfur despite a peace agreement."

National Public Radio

Audio: Drug Cocktail Kills Dozens of People in Midwest
Michele Norris
May 23, 2006
"In major cities, a powerful street drug concoction of heroin or cocaine and the painkiller fentanyl is proving deadly. In Wayne County, Mich., which includes the city of Detroit, dozens of people have died from the combination since November, with several in the past week."

Audio: Famed Medical Test 'ELISA' Celebrates Its 35th
Joe Palca
May 22, 2006
"Every so often, a new technology completely changes the medical practice. It's impossible to imagine an internist without a stethoscope, or an orthopedist without an X-ray machine. In 1971, two Swedish scientists, Eva Engvall and Peter Perlman, who died in 2005, invented a test that revolutionized medicine."

Week of May 17, 2006

CBS News: The Early Show

Video: Installing Car Breathalyzers
Hattie Kauffman
May 17, 2006
"Drunken driving kills about 17,000 people a year. Often courts order repeat DUI offenders to install car breathalyzers. Hattie Kauffman talks with people who installed them on their own." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

CNN

Video: Staph Infections Growing
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
May 17, 2006
"Staph infections are becoming more dangerous and difficult to treat."

Video: Blood Clots and Air Travel
Christy Feig
May 16, 2006
"CNN's Christy Feig looks at a new study on air travel and the likelihood of developing blood clots."

National Public Radio

Audio: Level of Health Care in Gaza Reaches New Lows
Eric Westervelt
May 16, 2006
"Gaza's already fragile health-care system is facing a new crisis spurred by the cutoff of foreign funding to the Hamas-led government and Israel's frequent closures of the cargo crossings, citing security threats. Gaza hospitals are running low on basic drugs and medical supplies."

CBS Evening News

Video: New Enemy In War On Drugs
Elizabeth Kaledin
May 16, 2006
"A new survey confirms that while U.S. teens are drinking and smoking less than the previous generation, a newer form of substance abuse should concern parents." (Requires Real Player)

Video: Fighting Autism With Pets
Steve Hartman
May 16, 2006
"No one is sure what causes autism, and there is no cure. But as Steve Hartman reports, there are therapies that can help treat it -- and at least one of them is having some remarkable success." (Requires Real Player)

NBC Nightly News

Video: Sleepless in America
Lester Holt
May 15, 2006
"The U.S. Surgeon General says sleep disorders cost Americans more than $16 billion annually in health care costs." (Requires Internet Explorer)

Week of May 10, 2006

CBS Evening News

Video: Bush Pushes Medicare Plan
Aleen Sirgany
May 10, 2006
"In an effort to sign up more seniors for the new Medicare plan, President Bush was in Florida touting the plan's benefits, even though many say the plan is too complex." (Requires Real Player)

Video: The Sandwich Generation
Cynthia Bowers
May 8, 2006
"More Americans find themselves caught between two generations, caring not only for their children but also their aging parents." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

Video: Energy Beverages Under Fire
Bob Orr
May 6, 2006
"The soft drink industry agreed to pull non-diet soft drinks from public schools. But as Bob Orr reports, popular high-caffeine energy drinks are also raising alarm in a school district in Virginia." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

BBC News

Video: Study Finds Glasgow's Poor Health 'Inherited'
Ross McWilliam
May 10, 2006
"A study into why Glasgow has a poor health record has found that lifestyles are not enough to explain the city's bad health. The research suggested that housing, poverty and a family history of deprivation are also factors."

Video: Call for More Ethnic Minority Donors
Deborah Bain
May 9, 2006
"People from ethnic minorities are more likely to die from some cancers because of a shortage of suitable bone marrow donors. A charity has been set up to encourage more people from black and minority groups to join a register."

ABC News, Boston:

Video: Dr. Tim Answers Boston Channel Questions on Bird Flu
May 9, 2006
"WCVB Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson answered questions our Web visitors sent in asking about bird flu."

CNN

Video: Drinking Into Trouble
Brianna Keilar
May 9, 2006
"Campus police are cracking down on the epidemic of underage drinking."

Video: The Challenge of Autism
Alina Cho
May 9, 2006
"Autism is seen more than Down syndrome, but it remains a mystery."

Video: Immigrant Health Care
Dr. Sanjay Gupta
May 5, 2006
"CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the growing costs of free health care for illegal immigrants."

National Public Radio

Audio: Online Simulation Peers into Life in Darfur Refugee Camp
Michelle Norris
May 5, 2006
"A new online, interactive video game gives players a glimpse of what it's like to be a refugee in the Darfur region of Sudan. In 'Darfur Is Dying,' players take on the role of refugees searching for food, shelter and safety, while avoiding the wrath of the murderous Janjaweed militia."

Audio: States Underserve Disabled Foster Kids, Study Says
Rachel Jones
May 4, 2006
"State foster-care systems neglect the needs of disabled children -- and the foster parents who care for them -- according to a national analysis of the child-welfare system. More than one-third of the more than 500,000 children in America's child-welfare system have disabilities, according to the report, the first of its kind."

Yahoo News

Video: Haitian Mud Pies
Kevin Sites
May 5, 2006
"In the Haitian slum of Cite Soleil, people actually make and eat mud pies, using a fine dirt found in central Haiti. It's not so much out of hunger; sometimes, people say, 'sometimes, you just crave dirt.'" (Related transcript)

Week of May 3, 2006

CNN

Video: Sodas Pulled Out of Schools
May 3, 2006
"Former President Bill Clinton announces a halt to non-diet soda sales in most public schools."

Video: National Plan for a Flu Pandemic
Ed Henry
May 3, 2006
"The White House says it's got a plan for a worst-case scenario from bird flu."

ABC World News Tonight

Video: The Risks of Supplements for Kids
David Muir
May 2, 2006
"Mary Ann Johnson will never forget the day the nurses were ready to wheel her 16-year-old autistic son into the operating room. He was about to have open-heart surgery, but at the last minute, the surgical team had to call off the procedure when they learned Johnson had given her son the supplement St. John's Wort for depression. What she didn't know was that the St. John's Wort was also thinning her son Adam's blood and could have spelled disaster during surgery...She's not alone in the confusion about supplements -- in a recent study, 66 percent of participating parents said they thought supplements did not interact with other medications." (Related story)

CBS Evening News

Video: New Medicare Plan's Troubles
Wyatt Andrews
May 3, 2006
"The GAO is set to release the results of an investigation into problems seniors are having with the new Medicare prescription drug plan. As Wyatt Andrews reports, it won't be a pretty picture." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

Video: Aging, Captured in Time
Elizabeth Kaledin
May 2, 2006
"Some Americans are living so long that scientists have become interested in knowing how they've done it." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

The New York Times

Audio Slide Show: Fighting Measles
Celia Dugger and Sarah Graham
Apr. 30, 2006
"Mothers in Nepal are foot soldiers in the global fight to slash the number of children who die from complications of measles." (Related story)

CBS News: 60 Minutes

Video: Lethal and Leaking
Lesley Stahl
Apr. 30, 2006
"Lesley Stahl visited Hanford, Wash., which is home to the most contaminated area in the world outside of Russia. The U.S. government has been trying to clean up the area for 16 years." (Video requires Real Player; related story)

BBC News

Video: Cholera Kills Hundreds in Angola
Jane Bennett-Powell
Apr. 28, 2006
"Cholera has killed 900 people in Angola in the past 10 weeks, according to aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres. Measures to contain the epidemic are inadequate, the agency says."

National Public Radio

Audio: Problems Plague Ambitious Irrigation Plan in Africa
Jason Beaubien
Apr. 28, 2006
"Tanzania hopes to jump-start its agricultural production by dramatically increasing the use of irrigation. The government of the East African nation plans to quadruple the amount of irrigated land to almost 2.5 million acres over the next four years."

Audio: Vaccine for Marburg Virus Tests Well in Monkeys
Richard Knox
Apr. 27, 2006
"Researchers say they've successfully treated monkeys who were infected with Marburg virus, a cousin of the Ebola virus. This is the first time a vaccine has been shown to be effective as a treatment for viruses like Marburg. Both viruses have caused rare, but deadly, outbreaks in Africa."