Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and author who was called the “poet laureate of medicine” died in his New York City home Sunday. He was 82. “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered in 100 years: “I would like it to be thou

Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested. A unique look at Alzheimer's staring Julianne Moore (Best Actress Oscar and Golden Globes...

One casualty of flooding from Hurricane Irene was the 141-year-old Bartonsville Covered Bridge, an historic landmark in Vermont built by Sanford Granger, caught on camera as it was swept away by floodwaters.

n May, 2014 Colorado became the first state to pass a so-called 'right to try' law, allowing terminal patients access to experimental drugs without FDA approval -- and Missouri is about to follow suit. NewsHour Weekend examines the issue by speaking with the Missouri bill's sponsor and his daughter,...

This is a time lapse video of Hurricane Sandy in real time hitting New York City

This special edition of the series "Tapestry: The Faces of AIDS", profiles James Adler, a well-known pianist and composer. A native of Chicago, Mr. Adler is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Fine Arts Department faculty at Saint Peter's College in Je...

It is spring again in 2024. A beautiful orchid garden has been developing in Wilton Station in Wilton Manors Florida. We took a stroll through "Village Lane" where we found multiple varieties of orchids hanging from the trees all throughout the residential complex.

With the outbreak of the Zika Virus in much of the southern part of the Western Hemisphere, Americans are wondering what the chance is of an outbreak in the US. RT’s Marina Portnaya visits a micro-biology lab at Miami-Dade College, where Dr. Joe Okungbowa highlights the concern in in South Florida,

This video outlines why Romans were drawn to the baths and how this pastime more than almost any other has come to define our conception of their cultural extravagance. Roman love of bathing did not begin with the empire, but as the Principate consolidated its authority, monumental public baths wer...

Calbuco, the Chilean volcano which erupted violently twice mid April, 2015 for the first time in 40 years, spewed out a plume of ash more than six miles high and blanketed parts of Chile and Argentina. More than 4,000 were evacuated but thankfully no deaths or injuries have been reported. Rodrigo B...