Photographic Evidence That Smoking Ages People Prematurely

The Well Smoking Quiz:  Who Looks Older.  Well Blog.  January 10, 2014.

Doctor Shortage Is Cited In Delays At V.A. Hospitals

Doctor Shortage Is Cited In Delays At V.A. Hospitals by Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  May 29, 2014.

Teen Birth Rate--Dropping; Older Women Birth Rate--Rising

U.S. Birth Rate Hits Lows For Teens, Rises Among Older Women by Ellen Wulfhorst.  Reuters.  May 29, 2014.

Sex-Reassignment Surgery Will Be Evaluated For Reimbursement by Medicare On A Case-By-Case Basis; Implications For Private Insurance Seen

Medicare Ban On Sex-Reassignment Surgery Lifted--Update by Stephanie Armour.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 30, 2014.

Q And A About Care For Veterans And Military

FAQ:  VA And Military Care Are Different, But Are Often Confused by Julie Rovner.  Kaiser Health News.  May 29, 2014.

Obesity Rates Jump Worldwide; U.S. Has The Highest Proportion of The World's Obese

Obesity, Overweight Rates Jump Worldwide:  Report.  Health Day/WebMD.  May 28, 2014.

Risk Of Heart Attack Can Triple Without Early Blood-Thinning Medication Following Stent

Many Delay Blood Thinners After Stents, Risk Death by Maureen Salamon.  Health Day.  May 28, 2014.

Mouse Study: Low Power Laser Shown To Stem Cells To Repair Teeth

Low-Power Laser May Trigger Tooth Repair.  Health Day.  May 28, 2014.

Study Sees Bigger Role For Placenta In Newborns' Health

Study Sees Bigger Role For Placenta In Newborns' Health by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  May 21, 2014.

Even If Surge In Medicaid Has Not Already Occurred, Georgia Can Expect One Soon

State Disputes Report Of Big Jump In Medicaid by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  May 27, 2014.

Cancer Care Costs: Insurance Companies Develop Protocols Raising Physician Concerns About Individual Care

Insurers Push To Rein In Spending On Cancer Care by Anna Wilde Mathews.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 27, 2014.

Insurers Try To Curb Oncology Costs By Regulating Cancer Treatment by Aileen Graef.  UPI.  May 28, 2014.

"Food Democracy", Agroecology, Feeding The World Completely And Well": The Visions Of UN Food Official

Food's Big-Picture Guy by Mark Bittman.  The Opinion Pages.  The New York Times.  May 25, 2014.

Cancer Type And Mortality Differ According To Socioeconomic Areas

An Area's Level Of Poverty Or Wealth May Affect The Distribution Of Cancer Types.  Science Daily.  May 27, 2014.

Clue To Irritable Bowel Syndrome Which Affects 15-20% Of the Western World Found In Gene For Sodium Channel

Genetic Clue To Irritable Bowel Syndrome Found.  Science Daily.  March 20, 2014.

In States Expanding Medicaid, Safety-Net Hospitals See Dramatically Improved Revenue Because Of Drop In Uninsured Patients

An Obamacare Winner:  Safety-Net Hospitals by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News/USA Today.  May 24, 2014.

To Encourage Enrollment Under Subsidized Coverage Of Obamacare, Some Hospitals Limit Charity Care

Hospitals Look To Health Law, Cutting Charity by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  May 25, 2014.

Bioelectronics As A Method To Harness The Nervous System To Inflammation

Can The Nervous System Be Hacked by Michael Behar.  The New York Times Magazine.  May 23, 2014.

Five Predictions About The Future Of Reproduction: More Diverse Parents; More Similar Children?

Making Babies:  Five Predictions About The Future Of Reproduction by Alexis C. Madrigal.  The Atlantic.  May 21, 2014.

Adjusting To New Glasses May Result In More Falls For the Elderly

New Glasses May Increase Risk Of Falls In Older Adults, Suggests Review.  Science Daily.  May 23, 2014.

Less Than 20% Of Medical Schools Teach Students How To Talk With Disabled Students--A Barrier To Care

Doctors' Ignorance Stands In The Way Of Care For The Disabled by Leana Wen.  National Public Radio.  May 17, 2014.

Natural Immunity To Malaria Fosters Hope For Vaccine For Disease That Killed 627,000 in 2014.

Novel Antigen Holds Promise For Malaria Vaccine by Honor Whiteman.  Medical News Today.  May 23, 2014.

Georgia Ranks 40th on Seniors' Health Measures

Georgia Scores Low In Senior Health by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  May 22, 2014

Physical Exams Receive Renewed Emphasis In Some Medical Schools

Patients Lose When Doctors Can't Do Good Physical Exams by Sandra G. Boodman.  Kaiser Health News.  May 20, 2014.

Three-Quarters Of Fourth-Year Report Personal Involvement In Medical Error; What Happens Then?

When Medical Students Make Errors by Dhruv Khullar.  Well Blog.  The New York Times.  May 15, 2014.

Placenta Not Sterile; May Be Source Of Intestinal and Oral Bacteria; Potential Explanation For Link Between Periodontal Disease and Premature Birth

Placenta "Not A Sterile Environment,"  Study Suggests.  Medical News Today.  May 22, 2014.

Drug-Target Database Lets Researchers Match Old Drugs To New Uses Using Genetic Clues

Drug-Target Database Lets Researchers Match Old Drugs To New Uses.  Science Daily.  May 22, 2014.

Hot Element In Chili Peppers Linked To Less Diabetes, Fewer Metabolic Problems, And Longer Life In Study of Mice

Blocking Pain Recpetors Extends Lifespan, Boosts Metabolism In Mice.  Science Daily.  May 22, 2014.

Gene For ADHD May Be Adaptive Or Maladaptive Depending On Environment

Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?  Science Daily.  June 10, 2014.

Dogs, With About 200 Million Olfactory Cells, Demonstrate Ability to Smell Prostate Cancer In Urine

Dogs Can Sniff Out Prostate Cancer In Urine by Bridgett Novak.  Reuters.  May 19 2014.

Bacteria Find Airplanes Are Friendly Environments; Can Live For Up To A Week; Cleaning And Hand Sanitizers Needed

Deadly Germs Can Live In Aircraft Cabins For A Week by Jessica Firger.  CBSNEWS.COM.  May 20, 2014

Large-Scale Study: Stronger Purpose In Life Associated With Lower Risk Of Death Across Age Groups

Purposeful Life Might Be A Longer Life.  HealthDay New.  May 15, 2014.

"Words and Pictures" Film Review: Artist With Rheumatoid Arthritis--Passion And Pain In Each Stroke

Actress, Artist, Sometimes Both At Once by Mekado Murphy.  The New York Times.  May 16, 2014.

Pancreatic Cancer Projected To Be 2nd Deadliest Cancer by 2030; Difficulty In Diagnosis, Lack Of Research Funding Cited As Reasons

Pancreatic Cancer:  2nd Deadliest Cancer by 2030? by Alan Mozes.  WebMd.  May 19, 2014.

Overseeing The Business Of Medicine Commands Highest Compensation, Not Patient Care; Executives Compensation At This Level Unique To U.S. Healthcare

Medicine's Top Earners Are Not The M.D.s by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  Opinion.  The New York Times.  May 17, 2014.

Studies are cited that administrative costs make up between 20 to 30 percent of the United States health care bill.

Accumulation Of Fat Said To Cause Overeating Not The Reverse, Article Suggests

Always Hungry?  Here's Why By David S. Ludwig And Mark Friedman.  Opinion.  The New York Times.  May 16, 2014.

"Bones Don't Lie"--Distinguished Forensic Anthropologist Showed The Importance Of Bones In Life And Health

Clyde Snow, A Sleuth Who Read Bones From King Tut's To Kennedy's, Is Dead at 86 by Robert D. McFadden.  New York Times.  May 16, 2014.

Women Often Unaware Of Benefits Under The Health Law

Survey:  Many Women Unaware How Health Law Benefits Them by Lisa Gillespie.  Kaiser Health News.  May 15, 2014.

Health Insurance Giants Team To Provide Healthcare Cost Transparency; Website To Be Available In 2015

Health Insurances Want To Make Medical Prices Easier To Discover by John Tozzi.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  May 15, 2014.

N.I.H Warns Scientists That Females Cannot Be Ignored In Testing Biomedical Advances

Labs Are Told To Start Including A Neglected Variable:  Female by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times.  May 14, 2014.

As a result of the systematic exclusion of females and female tissues from biomedical testing "researchers know far more about (drug or treatment) effect on males than on females."

CDC Propose New Drug Strategy For AIDS Infection Prevention; Condoms Though Effective Are Widely Unpopular

CDC Backs Daily Pill To Help Prevent AIDS Infection By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Boston Globe/New York Times.  May 15, 2014.

Nearly 30 percent increase in ER Visits For Traumatic Brain Injury 2006-2010

Large Increase Seen In Emergency Departments Visits For Traumatic Brain Injury.  Science Daily.  May 13, 2014.

Piedmont Hospitals Partnership With Urgent Care Reflects More Access To Health Insurance

Latest Partnership Reflects Trend In Urgent Care by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  May 12, 2014.

No Wonder Agent For Heart Health In Red Wine Or Any Food For That Matter

Why The Doctor Might Be Wrong About The Good In Red Wine by Alice Park.  Time.  May 12, 2014.

The headline immediately above conflicts with the last paragraph of the article which argues that the role of red wine or any food is a complex question.

Linking Psychology And Physiology, Study Finds Linkage Between Being Victim of Bullying and Inflammation

Bullying Linked To Increased Inflammation:  Study by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  My 12, 2014.

At Least For The Now, New Patients Under Obamacare Not Overwhelming The Primary Care System

What Surge?  Nation's Primary Care System Holding Up Well So Far Under Obamacare by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  May 12, 2014.

So far, so good.  However there could be some difficulties ahead.

Decision Not To Expand Medicaid Impacts Community Health Centers and Patients Mostly In The South

States' Medicaid Decisions Leave Health Centers, Patients In Lurch by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  May 9, 2014.

Significant Quote:  "If all 50 states had expanded Medicaid as the law's framers had intended, 5.2 million uninsured community health center patients out of a total of 7.5 million would have been covered, the report projected."

Tanaquil Le Clercq: Afternoon Of A Faun. A Sublime Dancer And Heroism In The Face Of Polio

Tanaquil Le Clercq:  Afternoon Of A Faun.  Documentary Film by Nancy Buirski, Director, Producer, Writer.  It is playing at Midtown Art Theatre in Atlanta thru May 15.

This film is sublime in so many ways.  One of those ways is how it shows a creative artist dealing with a disease that struck her down in her prime.

Google Glass Has Already Offered Some Physicians And Nurses Useful Applications

Why Some Doctors Like Google Glass So Much.  by Susan Young Rojahn.  Technology Review.  May 6, 2014.

Parasitic Infections More Widespread Than Many Think

CDC Targets Five Parasitic Infections.  HealthDay/MedicalXpress.  May 8, 20-14

Nine Times More Births To Women Over 35 Than in the 1970's

More Older Women Becoming First-Time Mothers by Jessica Firger.  CBS News.  May, 9 2014.

Analysis Of Gait Via Cellphone App May Effectively Monitor Heart And Lung Patients

GaitTrack App Makes Cellphone A Medical Monitor For Heart, Lung Patients.  Science Daily.  May 8, 2014.

Modification of Genetic Alphabet Raises Hopes And Concerns

Scientists Add Letters To DNA's Alphabet, Raising Hope And Fear by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  May 7, 2014.

Doubling Of Elderly Population By 2050 Poses Challenges For Healthcare

Number of U.S. Elderly Will Double By 2050  Report.  Health.  May 6, 2014.

Spread Of Polio A Public Health Emergency Says WHO

The Comeback Of Polio Is A Public Health Emergency by Jason Beaubien.  NPR.  May 5, 2014.

Massive Study Of Massachusetts Health Care Law Points To Possibility That Obamacare Will Save Lives

Mortality Drop Seen To Follow '06 Health Law by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  May 5, 2014.

College Graduation and Health Insurance: Options Available

College Graduates Should Consider Options For Health Insurance by Lisa Zamosky.  The Los Angeles Times.  May 4, 2014.

Losing student-based health insurance could serve as a qualifying event under the Affordable Care Act.

Docudrama Mixes Medical and Genetic Science With A Personal History Of Breast Cancer.

On The Trail Of A Gene That Kills by Stephen Holden.  The New York Times.  May 1, 2014.

This is a film review.  The movie is available in theaters and on-demand.

Republican States Exchange Enrollments Often Exceeded Expectations

Red States Like Obamacare Than You Might Think.  Forbes.  May 4, 2014.

Device To Scan Food To Determine Fat, Protein, an Carb Amounts

This 'Star Trek'-Style Molecular Sensor Fits In Your Hand, Reads Your Food by Kieron Monks.  CNN.  May 2, 2014.

Research Trends Away From Saturated Fat As Cause Of Heart Disease; Carbs Increasingly Viewed As The Villian

The Questionable Link Between Saturated Fat And Heart Disease by Nina Teicholz.  The Saturday Essay.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 2, 2014.

Up To 39% of Premature Deaths Preventable; Preventable Deaths Concentrated in The Southeast

Up To 39% Of Premature Deaths Preventable, CDC Says by Larry Hand.  Medscape.  May 1, 2014.

Free Screening + Costly Diagnosis: Problem With Obamacare

The Problem With Free Health Care by H. Gilbert Welch.  The New York Times.  Apri. 30, 2014.

Treating screening, part of preventative care, differently from diagnosis for those with signs or symptoms of disease creates problems that need to be addressed the author argues.

Botched Execution In Oklahoma Engenders Debate About Doctors Participation In Executions

Doctors In The Death Chamber.  Room for Debate.  The New York Times.  May 1, 2014.

This debate presents four points of view.