Health Technology Being Developed To Meet Needs Of Aging Baby-Boomers

Firms Gearing Health-Related Technology Toward Baby Boomers by Luke Yoquinto.  the Washington Post.  October 31, 2014.

Phone Or In-Person Medical Interpreters Play An Important Role In Oregon Healthcare

Reasoning Behind Decision Of Maine Judge Rejected Maine Quarantine Order

Ebola Quarantine:  Why Judge Sided With Nurse Kaci Hickox by Warren Richey.  Christian Science Monitor.  October 31, 2014.

American Academy Of Arts And Sciences Special Collection On The Ebola Epidemic

The Ebola Epidemic.  Science Magazine.

Researchers With Recent Frontline Ebola Experience Barred From Tropical Medicine Conference In Louisiana

Been To An Ebola-Affected Country?  Stay Away From Tropical Medicine Meeting, Louisiana Says by Martin Enserink.  Science Magazine.  October 29, 2014.

Cleveland Clinic Lists Top 10 Innovations For 2015

Top 10 Innovations For 2015.  The Cleveland Clinic/Medical Innovation Summit October 27-29, 2014.

Emory Team Explains Success Treating Ebola

With Good Hospital Practice, Emory Rises To Ebola Challenge by Jim Burress.  WABE/Kaiser Health News.  October 29, 2014.

Hospitals, Nurses, And Physicians Endorse CDC Interim Guidance For Ebola Monitoring

AHA, AMA, And ANA Joint Statement On CDC Interim Guidance For Monitoring And Moving Persons With Potential Ebola Virus.  October 28, 2014.

The New England Journal Of Medicine: Ebola And Quarantine--Governors' Approach Not Scientifically Based

Ebola And Quarantine.  Editorial.  The New England Journal Of Medicine.  October 27, 2014.

Is The Affordable Care Act Working

Is The Affordable Care Act Working?  The New York Times.  October 27, 2014.

Overview Of History's Worst Plagues

Graphic:  As Ebola's Death Tool rises, Remembering History's Worst Epidemics by National Geographic Staff.  National Geographic.  October 25, 2014.

Hospitals Revamp Infection Control Amid Ebola Scare

Hospitals Revamp Infection Control Amid Ebola Scare by Sabriya Rice.  Modern Healthcare.  October 26, 2014.

Symptomless Ebola Nurse Criticizes Her Quarantine In Editorial

UTA Grad Isolated At New Jersey Hospital As Part Of Ebola Quarantine by Kaci Hickox.  The Dallas Morning News.  October 25, 2014.

Review Of Ebola Effort In Progress At CDC

CDC Moves Faster To NY As Ebola Self-Examination Begins by John Lauerman.  Bloomberg.  October 25, 2014.

Symptomless Nurse Quarantined Under New Ebola Guideline In New Jersey/New York Describes Harrowing Ordeal

Health Worker Quarantined In New Jersey Describes Harrowing Ordeal by Josh Margolin and Ben Candea.  ABC News.  October 25, 2014.

How The Nation's Oldest Continuously-Operated Hospital Gears Up For Ebola Case

Ebola Puts Spotlight On Bellevue, Key NYC Trauma Center by Ted Mann.  The Wall Street Journal.  October 23, 2014.

New Technique To Revive "Dead Hearts" For Transplants Promises Expansion Of Number Of Suitable Heart Donors

Australian Doctors Make Heart-Transplant Breakthrough by Rob Taylor.  The Wall Street Journal.  October 24, 2014

No Public Health Without Environmental Health: The Ebola/Deforestation Link

The Ebola-Deforestation Connection.  SustainableBusiness.com.  October 22, 2014.

New Investment Tools Viewed As Way To Expand Funding Of Public Health Efforts

The Latest In Public Health Funding:  Tapping Investors by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  October 23, 2014.

Robots Could Possibly Be Used Ebola Containment Effort

Scientists Consider Repurposing Robots For Ebola by John Markoff.  The New York Times.  October 22, 2014.

How Genomics Research Can Help Contain The Outbreak

The Ebola Wars by Richard Preston.  The New Yorker.  October 27, 2014.

While Nationally One In Every 25 Hospitalized Patients Get An Infection, Hospitals Vary In Infection Control

Hospitals' Struggle To Beat Back Familiar Infections Began Before Ebola Arrived by Jordan Rau.

Meta-Analysis Indicates Effective Linking Of Anti-Inflammatory And Antidepressant Drug

Analgesics And Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Have Have Impact On Depression.  Medical Xpress.  October 21, 2014.

Young Female Billionaire Aims To Reshape Medical Testing

She's America's Youngest Female Billionaire--And A Dropout by Rachel Crane.  CNNMoney.  October 16, 2014.

Tracing Public Trust In Modern Medicine Through Public Reactions to Epidemics Of The Past

Ebola And The Epidemics Of The Past by David Oshinsky.   The Wall Street Journal.  October 17, 2014.

Out-Of-Hospital Medication Errors Common; Most Common--Administering Dosage Twice

Medication Errors Occur Every 8 Minutes In U.S. Children by Tara Haelle.  HealthDay.  October 20, 2014.

U.S. To Replace WHO-Based Protocols With New Ones; Rapid-Response Military Medical Team Formed

WRAPUP7-Using Military And New Protocols, U.S. Ramps Up Ebola  By Anna Driver and Lisa Marie Garza.  Octoner 20, 2014.

Siri Provides Stimulation And Companionship To Autistic Child

To Siri, With Love by Judith Newman.  The New York Times.  October 17, 2014.

Stories As A Complement To Evidence-Based Medicine

Why Doctors Need Stories by Peter D. Karmer.  The New York Times.  October 18 2014.

Ebola Conspiracy Theories Tell Us Much About America

The Ebola Conspiracy Theories by Alan Feuer.  The New York Times.  October 18, 2014.

Five Myths About Ebola

Five Myths About Ebola by Laurie Garrett.  The Washington Post.  October 10, 2014.

Poll Shows Widespread Misconceptions About How Ebola Is Spread

Poll:  Many Unaware How Ebola Is Spread by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  October 16, 2014.

Assisted Suicide Happens In All States Even Those Where It is Illegal

Beyond Brittany:  Assisted Suicides Happen In Every State, Insiders Say by Bill Briggs.  NBC News.  October 18, 2014.

Opinion: Travel Ban Will Not Work But Will produce Unintended Consequences

They May Sound Like A Good Idea, But Travel Bans For Ebola Won't Work by Abby Haglage.  The Daily Beast.  October 18, 2014.

Large Concentrations Of The Uninsured In Congressional Districts Often Impacts Support For Health Care Law

Dem Push For Health Law Rooted In Demographics by Stephen Ohlemacher.  Associated Press.  October 16, 2014.

Georgian Have Diverse And Sometimes Contradictory Views On The Affordable Care Act

Poll:  Georgians Like Expansion, But Not ACA Overall by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  October 9, 2014.

Georgia Responds To Ebola

Is Georgia Doing Enough On Ebola?   by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  Cotober 14, 2014.

Study" Fitness Age Is A Better Predictor Of Longevity Than Chronological Age

What's Your Fitness Age by Gretchen Reynolds.  Well.  The New York Times.  October 15, 2014.

I like this test.  It says I have the fitness age of 24.  

Even With Electronic Medical Records, Talking, Listening, And Repetition Will Be Necessary

With Electronic Medical Records, Doctors Read When They Should Talk by Abigail Zuger, M.D.  The New York Times.  October 13, 2014.

Ebola: Five Ways The CDC Got It Wrong

Ebola:  Five Ways The CDC Got It Wrong by Elizabeth Cohen.  CNN Health.  October 13, 2014.

Growing Brain Cells In Petri Dish Provides New Way To Test Drugs; Method Has Already Supported The Role Of Beta Amyloid

Breakthrough Replicates Human Brain Cells For Use In Alzheimer's Research by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  October 12, 2014.

Monitoring Child Care Can Be Key To Predicting Disease Outbreaks

How Preschoolers Can Predict Disease Outbreaks by Alexandra Sifferlin.  Time.  October 10, 2014.

Implementation Of CDC Infection Control Protocols Key To Ebola Control; Flawless Execution A Must In Effort To Protect Health Workers

As Anxiety Increases, Agency Scrambles To Address Concerns Of Health Workers by Pam Belluck

CDC Infection Preventional And Control Recommendations For Hospitalized Ebola Patients

Infection Prevention And Control Recommendations For Hospitalized Patients With Known Or Suspected Ebola Virus Disease In U.S. Hospital.  Centers For Disease Control  October 6, 2014.

Release Of Ebola Patient Becomes More Questionable In Light Of Fever, Incorrect Accounts, And Contradictions

Ebola Patient Sent Home Despite Fever, Records Show by Manny Fernandez and Kevin Sack.

Evolving With The Disease: Doctors Without Borders Innovates In Staffing, Distribution, Design, And Safety

Doctors Without Borders Evolves As It Forms The Vanguard In Ebola Fight by Sheri fink, Adam Nossiter And James Kanter.  The New York Times.  October 10, 2014.

Neurosurgery Residency: Overview Of Hours And Demands

Can Brain Surgery Be Taught In An 80-Hour Workweek by Dan Browning.  Star Tribune.  October 8, 2014.

Drugs, Especially Antibiotics And Radiocontrast Agents, Cause Most Of The Fatal Allergic Reactions

Drugs Cause Most Fatal Allergic Reactions, Study Finds by Nicholas Bakalar.  The New York Times.  October 6, 2014.

Medical And Fashion Are Linked In Skin-Based Computing Devices

Wearable Technology That Feels Like Skin by Nick Bilton.  The New York Times.  October 8, 2014.

Women Physicians Paid Differently And May Practice Medicine Differently; Evidence--Payments By Drug Companies

Men Dominate List Of Doctors Receiving Largest Payments by Charles Ornstein.  The Upshot.  The New York Times.  October 8, 2014.

How Clinicians Can Handle Information Overload

Can Our Brains Handle The Information Age?  Interview with Daniel Levitin by Bret S. Stetka.  Medscape.  September 24, 2014.

Study: Contact Sports Boost Spread of MRSA's

Study:  Contact Sports Boost Spread Of 'Superbugs'  by Randy Dotinga.  WebMD.  October 9, 2014.

Looming Requirement Of The Affordable Care Act Requiring Restaurants To Post Calories Next To Prices Provides An Incentive To Cut Calories On New Items

Restaurant Chains Trimming The Fat, Study Shows by Bruce Horovitz.  USA TODAY.  October 8, 2014.

Life Expectancy Hits All-Time High of 78.8; Suicides Increased, Hispanics Provided Exception To Improvement

U.S. Life Expectancy Hits Record High by Steven Reinberg.  WebMd.  October 8, 2014.

Georgia's Health Is Bad And Getting Worse

Georgia's Health Is Bad And Getting Worse by Dr. Harry J. Heiman.  Georgia Health News.  October 2, 2014.

Tumor Seem To Grow Faster At Night; Implication For Timing Medication

Tumors Might Grow Faster At Night.  Science Daily.  October 6, 2014.

The Dynamics Of Fear: Who Is Frightened And Who Is Not

Only 11 Percent Of Americans Are 'Very Worried' About Ebola by Lisa Lerer.  Bloomberg Politics.  October 6, 2014.

Discovery Of "Place Cells" Gain Scientists Nobel Prize; May Shed Light On Alzheimer's

Nobel Prize Honors Researchers Discovery Of Brain's GPS System by Melissa Healy.  The Los Angeles Times.  October 6, 2014.

The Link Between Fat And Cancer; 84,000 Cancer Diagnoses Linked To Cancer Each Year

The Link Between Fat And Cancer by Jacque Wilson.  CNN.  October 1, 2014.

The 6 Biggest Myths About Ebola, Debunked

The 6 Biggest Myths About Ebola, Debunked by Susannah Locke.  Vox.  October 1, 2014.

Projections Of Rapid Growth For Medical Assistants Fuels Demand For Expensive, Often Not Required, Certificates

When Higher Education Doesn't Deliver On Its Promise--Medical-Assistant Programs:  A Case Study by Kevin Carey.  The Upshot.  The New York Times.  October 4, 2014.

Physician Licensing In Georgia Found More Forgiving For Those Barred In Other States

Georgia Board Licenses Doctors Other States Won't by Danny Robbins.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  October 4, 2014.  This article is available only with a subscription or in the physical newspaper.  Definitely worth a read highlighting stories such as one about a physician stripped of his license in Texas for solicitation of capital murder is now practicing in Georgia

America's Limitation Of Access To Healthcare Presents A Vulnerability To Ebola

Obamacare May Hold The Key To Saving The U.S. From Ebola by Laurie Garrett.  Foreign Policy.  October 1, 2014.

Study: Shift To LARC (Long-Acting Reversible Contraception) Would Dramatically Lower Unplanned And Teenage Pregnancy

IUDs And Implants Are The New Pill by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  October 1, 2014.

On-The-Ground Epidemiology In Contact Search Of Dallas Ebola Patient

For CDC Team In Dallas, The Search Is On For Those Who Had Contact With Ebola Patient by Amy Ellis Nutt.  The Washington Post.  October 4, 2014.

Electronic Medical Record Glitch Obscured Travel Record From Physicians For Dallas Ebola Victim

Ebola:  Record Glitch Sent Patient Home by Michael Smith.  MedPage Today.  October 3, 2014.

California Pollution Control Strategy Reduces The Average Risk Of Pollution-Associated Cancer by More than 50 Percent

Drastic Drop In California's Cancer-Causing Pollution Levels Found by Annie Hauser.  Weather.com.  October 3, 2014.

Q & A on Enterovirus; Link To Paralysis Cited

6 Things You Need To Know About The Enterovirus 68 Outbreak by Cheri Cheng.  Counsel & Heal.  October 3, 2014.  

Study: Consumerism And Price Transparency Could Impact Nation's Health Bill

Given Choice, Parents Pick Cheaper Medical Procedure For Children by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  The Upshot.  The New York Times.  October 1, 2014.

In Small Study, Indications Of Success In Combination Therapy In Reversing Cognitive Decline

Cognitive Decline "Reversed With Personalized Treatment Plan," Claims Researcher by Honor Whiteman.  October 2, 2014.

Abusers May Not Consider Vicodin/Hydrocodone As Dangerous Since They Are Prescribed By Doctors

Opioid Use High Because Users Distinguish It From Other Street Drugs by Shelly Fraley,  Diabetes Insider.  October 2, 2014.

Modernization And Transportation May Have Spread Aids From Kinshasa Beginning In the 1920's

Early Spread Of AIDS Traced To Congo's Expanding Transportation Network by Brandon Keim.  National Geographic.  October 2, 2014.

Drug-Delivery Capsule May Replace Injections

New Drug-Delivery Capsule May Replace Injections.  Science Daily.  October 1, 2014.

Pentagon Healthcare System Reviewed: 50 Hospitals, 600 Clinics, $50 Billion Budget

Pentagon To Target Its Hospitals Providing Poor Care Following Review by Dan Lamothe.  The Washington Post.  October 1, 2014.

Payments To Doctors Listed Including Research, Speaking, Consulting, Travel

Detailing Financial Links Of Doctors and Drug Makers by Katie Thomas, Agustin Armendariz and Sarah Cohen.  The New York Times.  September 30, 2014.

Lack Of Clear Guidelines, Standards, And Processes Present Obstacles To Hospitalist Responsible Use Of Antibiotics

Hospitalists Adopt Strategies To Become More Responsible Prescribers Of Antibiotics by Kelly April Tyrell.  The Hospitalist.  October 2014.