Selfies Seem To Be Driving Demand For Eye-lid lifts and Nose Jobs

The Selfie Is Driving A Huge Demand For Plastic Surgery In The US.  Reuters/Business Insider.  November 30, 2014.

C-Section Practice In Georgia Hospitals Featuring Atlanta's Northside Hospital

Spike In C-Section Rates Draws Concern by Carrie Teegardin.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  November 30, 2014.    Article available in physical newspaper and by subscription online

Wounds Of War That Never Heal: A Quarter Of PTSD VA Patients Are Early Wars, Mainly Vietnam

Vets Seek Help For PTSD Decades After War by Clare Ansberry.  The Wall Street Journal.  November 28, 2014.

21 Maps And Charts That Explain The Obesity Epidemic

21 Maps And Charts That Explain The Obesity Epidemic by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  November 17, 2014.

The Case Against Early Cancer Detection

The Case Against Early Cancer Detection by Christie Aschwande.  Five Thirty Eight.  November 24, 2014.

Investing In Hospital Design Can Promote Health

Building Healthier Hospitals by Lucy Maddox.  Mosaic Science.  November 25, 2014.

The 3-D Printing Revolution In Medicine

Print Thyself by Jerome Groopman.  The New Yorker.  November 24, 2014.

Smoking, Killer Of More Than 1 Million Chinese Each Year, Is Now Banned Indoors In Beijing

Beijing Passes Tough Anti-Smoking Rules In Smokers' Paradise by Calum MacLeod.  USA TODAY.  November 28, 2014.

Mass Incarceration And Its Impact On Public Health

Mass Imprisonment and Public Health by The Editorial Board.  The New York Times.  November 26, 2014

New F.D.A. Rule: Calorie Counts On Restaurants, Movie Theaters, Pizza Parlor Menus

F.D.A. To Require Calorie Count, Even For Popcorn At The Movies by Sabrina Tavernise and Stephanie Strom.  The New York Times.  November 24, 2014.

With Rural Georgia Hospitals In Crisis, Panel Doesn't Discuss Medicaid Expansion

State Panel Meets Over Ailing Rural Hospitals by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  November 20, 2014.

Some Experts Dispute Claims Of Looming Doctor Shortage; New Methods To Organize Healthcare May Avert Crisis

Some Experts Dispute Claims Of Looming Doctor Shortage by Julie Rovner.  Kaiser Health News.  November 24, 2014.

You Are Not What You Eat, You Are What You Save From What You Eat

'Rise Of Saturated Fat In Diet Does Not Raise Fats In Blood' by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  November 22, 2014.

Illustrating The Impact Of Entertainment On Health, Home-Birth Film Redelivered

Home-Birth Film By Ricki Lake Prepares For Redelivery, Worldwide by Christine Haughney.  The New York Times.  November 23, 2014.

McKinsey Report Addresses Obesity, A Condition Affecting 2.1 Billion People

How The World Could Better Fight Obesity.  McKinsey Global Institute.  November 2014.

The Whole World Is Fat! And That Ends Up Costing $2 Trillion A Year.  NPR.  November 14, 2014.

Other Than Ebola, Tropical Diseases--Chagas, Chikungunya, Dengue--Pose Threat To U.S.

More Than Ebola, Other Tropical Diseases Pose Growing Threat To U.S. by Katherine Hobson.  National Geographic.  November 19, 2014.

To Limit Withholding Of Unfavorable Studies, New Rules For NIH's ClinicalTrials.gov Are Proposed

U.S. Government Proposes More Transparency In Clinical Trials by Sharon Begley.  Reuters/Yahoo News.  November 20, 2014.

Research: Most Heavy Drinkers Are Not Alcoholics, Suggesting New Approaches To Modify Behavior

Study:  Heavy Drinkers Are Rarely Alcoholics by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore.  USA Today.  November 21, 2014.

7 Shocking Consequences Of One Billion People Not Having A Toilet

7 Shocking Consequences Of One Billion People Not Having A Toilet by Beenish Ahmed.  Think Progress.  November 19, 2014.

Opinion: Perverse Incentives Undermining Care

How Medical Care Is Being Corrupted byPamela Hartzband and Jerome Groopman.  The New York Times.  November 18, 2014.

Use Of Dental Services Tends To Foreshadow Economic Trends

The Dental Index suggests Economic Pain Ahead by Eric Chemi.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  October 9, 2014.

Preterm Birth Identified As Leading Cause Of Death In Young Children

Preterm Birth Identified As Leading Cause Of Death In Young Children by Honor Whiteman.  Medical News Today.  November 17, 2014.

Emory University Physician Called America's Best Ebola Doctor By Time Magazine

Meet America's Top Ebola Doctor by Alexandra Sifferlin.  Time.  November 17, 2014.

Prelimary Research Results: Combination Of Nonstatin And Statin Shows Statistically Significant Heart Benefit

Surprise!  Vytorin Works.  Here Are Five Things You Should Know by Matthew Herper.  Forbes.  November 17, 2014.

AHA:  IMPROVE-IT Proves Ezetimibe Benefit by Peggy Peck.  MedPage Today.  November 17, 2014.

Anxiety And Stress Shown To Speed Cognitive Decline, Alzheimer's

Anxiety Speeds Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer's Disease by Kristen Fischer.  Healthline.  November 12, 2014.

Most Americans Are Not Healthy Or Financially Secure Enough To Donate A Kidney

Most In U.S. Aren't suitable Kidney Donors, Study Says by Kathleen Doheny.  Healthday.  November 14, 2014.

Thought-Controlled Gene Expression Offers At Some Point The Possibility Of New Therapies

Controlling Genes With Your Thoughts.  Science Daily.  November 11, 2014.

Physical Symptoms Suggest That Depression Could Be Reclassified As An Infectious Disease

Could Depression Actually Be A Form Of Infectious Disease?  Science Daily.  November 14, 2014.

Smoking Is A Driver Of TB; Research Reveals Why Smokers Are More Vulnerable

Crucial Mechanism Driving Colliding Epidemics Of Smoking, TB Unlocked By Scientists.  Science Daily.  Science Daily.  November 14, 2014.

Premature Infants Exposed To Unsafe Levels Of Chemical Used In Numerous Medical Products

Premature Infants Are Exposed To Unsafe Levels Of Chemical In Medical Products Use To Save Their Lives.  Science Daily.  November 13, 2014.

Health Literacy Linked To Internet Literacy Among Elderly

Older Americans Unversed In the Internet 'Know Less About Health' by Catharine Paddock.  Medical News Today.

Whether Psychology Organization Colluded With Torture Interrogations Will Be Subject Of Probe

Psychologists To Review Role In Detainee Interrogations by James Risen.  The New York Times.  November 13, 2014.

Ebola In The Context Of The Globalized And Hyperconnected World

Ebola Outbreak Is Latest Example Of Globalization's Risks by Ian Goldin.  PBS Newshour.  November 13, 2014.

Born In Rebellion, Doctors Without Borders Brings Dedication, Decentralized Organization, Flexibility, And A Passion For Meet The Most Challenging Needs To Ebola Fight

Ebola:  Doctors Without Borders Shows How To Manage A Plague by Brad Wieners And Makiko Kitamura.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  November 13, 2014.

Opinion: Ignored Facet Of Public Health: Food Workers

Protect Those Who Protect Our Food by Jacob E. Gersen and Benjamin I. Sachs.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2014.

Opinion: Public Policy Failing Teens On Birth Control

Politicians, Teens And Birth Control by Nicholas Kristof.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2014.

How Much Sugar Is Too Much? The Average American Consumes 19.5 Teaspoons Of Added Sugar A Day

How Much Sugar Is Too Much?  A New Tool Sheds Some Light by Lisa Aliferis.  NPR.  November 10, 2014.

Sewage Monitoring As Real-Time Epidemiology

What Our Sewage Can Teach Us by Joshua A Krisch.  Well Blog.  The New York Times.  November 10, 2014

AIDS, Ebola Outbreaks Offer Eerily Similar Reactions

Epidemics Of Confusion by Lawrence K.  Altman, M.D.  The New York Times.  November 10, 2014.

Lack Of Hygiene May Be An Important Reason For Stunting--Unicef Conference

Talks In India To Focus On Link Between Hygiene And Growth by Gardiner Harris.  The New York Times.  November 10, 2014.

The Ebola Epidemic--The Psychology Of Helping, Or Not Helping

Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need--But Not Millions by Shankar Vedantam.  NPR.  November 5, 2014.

Marijuana: Usage And Growing Activity By State

Where Americans Smoke And Grow Marijuana (Maps) by Bahar Gholipour.  Live Science.  November 4, 2014

A Vision Of The Future Of Reproduction From The Inventor of the Contraceptive Pill

Sex Will Soon Be Just For Fun, Not Babies, Says Father Of the Pill by Sarah Knapton.  Montreal Gazette.  November 9, 2014.

Robots To Treat Ebola Patients Discussed At White House Conference

Ebola-Tackling Robots To Be Discussed By The White House by Jen Copestake.  BBC.  November 6, 2014.

Multiple Strategies To Avoid Falling, An Increasing Cause Of Emergency Room Visits

Steps To Avoid An Accident by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  November 3, 2014.

Massive Department Of Veterans Affairs Has Need For A Range Of Medical Professionals

Needing To Hire, Chief Of V.A. Tries To Sell Doctors On Change by Richard A. Oppel Jr.  The New York Times.  November 8, 2014.

Western Medicine Seeks To Emulate Chinese Medicines Holistic View, Back Approach With Science And Data

A Push To Back Traditional Chinese Medicine With More Data by Shirley S. Wang.  The Wall Street Journal.  November 3, 2014.

CDC Addresses Ebola Concerns In Georgia Schools

CDC Urges Schools To Take More Measured Approach About Ebola by Aimee Jones.  Rockdale Citizen.  November 7, 2014.

Georgians Will Be Hit Hard If Supreme Court Rules Against Health Care Insurance Subsidies On Federal Exchanges

Latest ACA Court Case Reverberates In Georgia by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  October 7, 2014.

Medical Nanotechnology Explored For Proactive, Not Just Reactive, Approaches To Health Problems

Google's Newest Search:  Cancer Cells by Alistair Barr and Ron Winslow.  The Wall Street Journal.  October 29, 2014.

In Leader Selection Healthy Outweighs Smart

What Do Most People Consider In Choosing A Leader?  Healthy Or Smart Looks by Alfred Kristoffer A. Guiang.  Science Times.  November 7, 2014.

Potential Obamacare Ruling By The Supreme Court Could Make Health Insurance Unaffordable For Millions, Undermine Structure Of Program

Obamacare Challenge Gets High Court Review, With Crucial Tax Credits At Stake by Greg Stohr.  Bloomberg.  November 7, 2014.

Viewing Violent Injury As A Chronic Disease Suggests Intervention Timing

Is Violent Injury A Chronic Disease?  Study Suggests So, And May Aid Efforts To Stop The Cycle.  Science Daily.  November 6, 2014.

Circumventing Mutation, New Technology Kills Bacteria Without Antibiotics

Revolutionary New Antibiotic Alternative Could Save The World From Superbug 'Apocalypse' by Amelia Smith.  Newsweek.  November 6, 2014.

Election Dims Further Medicaid Expansion Prospects In Georgia And Other States

Republican Gubernatiorial Victories Make Medicaid Expansion Unlikely In 5 States by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  November 5, 2014.

Opinion: Political Impact On Health Illustrated By Case Study Of Arkansas And Georgia

Arkansas Vs. Georgia:  Proof That Politics Matters by Jay Bookman.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  November 4, 2014.

5 Problems For Rural Health In Georgia And 10 Potential Solutions For Communities

5 Problems For Rural Health In Georgia And 10 Potential Solutions For Communities by R. Ross burns.  Nelson Mullins.  November 4, 2014.

Irregular Work Hours Impact Ability To Think--Research Study

Study:  Long-Term Shirt Work Lessens Brain Power by Laura Smith-Spark.  CNN.  November 4, 2014.

Google Decision To Supplement Google Flu Trends And CDC Data Provides Case Study For Big Data In Healthcare

Google Flu Trends Update Shows Underlying Issues Of Big Data by Darius Tahir.  Modern Healthcare.  November 3, 2014.

Falling, A Threat For An Aging Population, Is Addressed With Design And Policy

Bracing For The Falls Of An Aging Nation by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  November 2, 2014.

Data Set Suggests That Three Million People Would Have Health Insurance If Medicaid Expansion Weren't Optional

Who Would Have Health Insurance If Medicaid Expansion Weren't Optional by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  November 3, 2014.

Obama's Health Law: Who Has Helped Most

Obama's Health Law:  Who Has Helped Most by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The Upshot.  The New York Times.  October 29, 2014.

When Is Treatment Not Worth The Risk? A Question For Hospitals Treating Ebola Patients

Hospitals Wrestle With Extent Of Ebola Treatment by Stephanie Armour.  The Wall Street Journal.  October 31, 2014.

Distrust Of Experts Generally Fuels Public Alarm At Ebola

Alarmed By Ebola, Public Isn't Calmed by 'Experts Say' by Richard Perez-Pena.  The New York times.  October 31, 2014.

Stereotypes About Age Have An Impact On Physical Performance

A Workout For The Mind by Paula Span.  The New Old Age.  The New York Times.  October 30, 2014.

Are There Fat Profits From The Obesity Epidemic?

Investors See Generous Profits In Obesity Epidemic by Constance Gustke.  CNBC.  October 27, 2014.