Doctors Portrayed In Popular Music

Healer, Dealer, Heart Stealer:  Portrayals Of The Doctor In Popular Music by Rob Stepney.  British Medical Journal.  December 11, 2014.

Walgreens Eyes Global Pharmacy Expansion With Acquisition of Alliance Boots

Walgreens Closes Deal, Begins New Era In Global By Bruce Japsen.  Forbes  December 31, 2014.

Health Reform Still Presents Affordability, Capacity, And Utilization Questions: The Case Of Kentucky

Success Of Kentucky's Health Plan Comes With New Obstacles by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  December 29, 2014.

Liability Caps Impact Auto Safety And Accident Deaths

Victims Of G.M. Deadly Defect Fall Through Legal Cracks by Barry Meier And Hilary Stout.  The New York Times.  December 29, 2014.

Poverty Impact On Diabetes Control Illustrates Role Of Social Conditions On Health

Poverty Makes Diabetes Care Tougher, Study Reports by Steven Reinberg.  Health Day/ US News.  December 29, 2014.

When Parents Start Companies To Cure Their Children

When Parents Start Companies To Cure Their Children by Amy Dockser Marcus.  Wall Street Journal.  December 26, 2014.

Risks In Using Social Media To Spot Signs Of Mental distress

Risks In Using Social Media To Spot Signs Of Mental Distress by Natasha Singer.  The New York Times.  December 26, 2014.

Study Indicates That Gallbladder Removal Not Associated With The Benefit Of The Procedure

To Remove The Gallbladder Or Not:  That Is The Question.  Science Daily.  December 23, 2014.

By Spotting Precursor To Alzheimer's MRI Technique Offers Hope

New Non-Invasive Method Can Detect Alzheimer's Disease Early.  Science Daily.  December 22, 2014.

Mechanism Associated With The Beneficial Effects Of Dietary Restriction Identified

Molecular Mechanism Behind Health Benefits Of Dietary Restriction Identified.  Science Daily.

5 Health Challenges for 2015:

5 Health Challenges The World Will Face In 2015.  by Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman.  Vox.  December 23, 2014.

Precisely Targeted Cold Medicines Could Eliminate Taking Unnecessary And Perhaps Harmful Drugs; Most Take Too Many Drugs For Colds

The Cold-Medicine Racket by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  December 19, 2014.

Independent Physicians Fear Being Swallowed by Large National Groups And Hospital Systems

Independent Physicians Under Attack, Says Doctor by Jon Gillooly.  Marietta Daily Journal.  December 21, 2014.

Georgia Hospitals, Including Some Of The Largest, Are Penalized For Hospital-Acquired Infections And Preventable Injuries

Feds Punish 29 Ga. Hospitals Over Harm To Patients by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  December 22, 2014.

Grady Hospital And Blue Cross Locked In Bitter Dispute

Grady Hospital Takes Fight With BlueCross To The Public by Bradley George.  Georgia Public Broadcasting.  December 15, 2014.

Gene Mutations May Explain Why Autism Is Never Identical

Gene Mutations May Determine Severity, Type Of  Autism by Robert Preidt.  WebMd.  December 22, 2014.

Caught In The Middle Of Drug Makers And Insurance, Doctors Losing Influence Over Patient Treatment

Gilead's Price Dispute With Insurers Leaves Doctors On Sidelines by Caroline Chen.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  December 22, 2014.

Survey: Affordability, Out-Of-Pocket Expenses, Doctor Role In Discussing Cost

How The High Cost Of Medical Care Is Affecting Americans by Elisabeth Rosenthal.  New York times.  December 18, 2014.

Study Of TV Medical Shows Illustrates The Importance Of Curated Medical Information

Real-World Doctors Fact-Check Dr. Oz, And The Results Aren't Pretty by Karen Kap[lan.  The Los Angeles Times.  December 19, 2014.

Repeat Caesareans Difficult To Reduce Due To Liability, Staffing, And, Safety Concerns

A Type Of Childbirth Some Women Will Fight For by Sumathi Reddy.  The Wall Street Journal.  December 8, 2014.

More Competition Results In Low Costs And Higher Enrollments for Obamacare In SW Georgia

Even In SW Georgia, Momentum For ACA Signups by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  December 15, 2014.

On A Diverse Set Of Measures, States Are Often Unprepared For Infectious Disease Outbreaks; Georgia Scores 5 Out Of A High Score Of 10

Report Gives USA Low Grades On Preparing For Disease by Liz Szabo.  USA TODAY.  December 18, 2014.

Report Faults GA., Other States On Fighting Disease by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  December 19, 2014.

Testing Has Become To The Medical System What Liquor Is To The Hospitality Industry

Odd Math Of Medical Tests:  One Scan, Two Prices, Both High by Elizabeth Rosenthal.  The New York Times.  December 15, 2014.

Success Of Weight Loss, Depends On How Often You Weigh

Weigh-In Once A Week Or You'll Gain Weight.  Science Daily.  December 17, 2014

European Court rules That Obesity Can, But Not Always, Be A Disability

Obesity 'Could Be A Disability'- EU Courts Rule.  BBC.  December 18, 2014.

Clot-Snagging Stent Key To Treating Severe Strokes

For First Time, Treatment Helps Patients With Worst Kind Of Stroke, Study Says by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  December 17, 2014.

Babies With Genetic Material From Three People The Subject Of New Rules In The UK

Rules For Babies 'From Three People' by James Gallagher.  BBCDecember 17, 2014.

Break Down Of Fat For Energy Results In Atoms That Expelled By The Lungs

Fat 'Breathed Out' Of Body Via Lungs Says Scientists  by Michelle Roberts.  BBC.  December 16, 2014.

Feeling Younger, Even When Other Factors Are Eliminated, Is Found To Be Linked To Lower Death Rate

Mind Over Matter:  Feeling Younger Linked To Lower Death Rate by Alan Neuhauser.  US News.  December 15, 2014.

163 Participant Study Finds Reducing Carbs, Not The Glycemic Index Of The Carbs, Is Key To Heart Health

Here's What Low-Carb Diets Do To Your Heart by Alice Park.  Time.  December 16, 2014.

British Study: Midwives Safer Than Doctors For Uncomplicated Pregnancies

Are Midwives Safer than Doctors?  by The Editorial Board.  The New York Times.  December 14, 2014.

In "Congressional Directive" The Legislature Forbids Consideration Of Environmental Impacts In Dietary Guidelines

Congress To Nutritionists:  Don't Talk About The Environment by Dan Charles.  NPR.  December 15, 2014.

Material Developed That Can Sense Touch; Could Be used To Give Artificial Limbs Feeling

Artificial Skin that Senses, And Stretches Like The Real Thing by David Talbot.  Technology Review.  December 9, 2014.

Major Scandal Addressed By Research: Why Are Magazines In Doctors' Offices So Old?

Shock!  Scandal!  Waiting room People Pilfered by Kim Painter.  USA TODAY.  December 12, 2014.

Georgia Prisons Hire Physicians Sanctioned For Patient Deaths, Injuries

Prison Docs Have Troubled Pasts by Danny Robbins.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  December 14, 2014.  Available in physical newspaper and by online subscription

Innovation In Ebola Treatment: Grand Challenge Contenders Include Cooling Undergarments And Antiseptic Skin Gell

Contest Seeks Novel Tools For The Fight Against Ebola by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  December 12, 2014.

Medical Students Protest No Indictments With "White Coats For Black Lives"

Medical Students Stage #WhiteCoats4BlackLives Protest by Abby Phillips.  Washington Post.  December 11, 2014.

Visual Beauty Of The Brain Inspires Surgeon/Painter

A Surgeon As Comfortable With A Paintbrush As She Is With A Scalpel by Corey Kilgannon.  The New York Times.  December 11, 2014.

Sugar Vs. Salt: Which One Is The More Harmful For Blood Pressure?

Blood Pressure:  Sugar Worse Than Salt by Salynn Boyles.  Medpage Today.  December 12, 2014.

With Most Evidence In Medicine Weak, Efforts to Homogenize Health Care Are Misguided

Don't  Homogenize Health Care by Sandeep Jauhar.  Opinion.  The New York Times.  December 10, 2014.

Tax Credits for Health Plans For 4.5 People At Stake In Upcoming Supreme Court Decision

Predicting the Fallout From King v. Burwell--Exchanges And The ACA by Nicholas Bagley, David K. Jones, and Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.  The New England Journal Of Medicine.  December 10, 2014.

Sleep Neglected For More Work, Commutes

Many U.S. Workers Are Sacrificing Sleep For work Hours, Long Commutes.  American Academy of Sleep Medicine.  December 11, 2014.

Injectable 3-D Vaccines Could Be Programmed To Stimulate Immune System Attack On Cancer

Injectable 3-D Vaccines Could Fight Cancer, Infectious Diseases.  Science Daily/ Wyss Institute For Biologically Inspired Engineering/Harvard.  December 8, 2014.

Why So Many Health Articles You Read Are Junk

Why So Many Health Articles You Read Are Junk by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  December 10, 2014.

Who's Is Receiving Coverage By Obamacare And Who is Left Out: Young People Gain, Those In States Not Expanding Medicaid Lose

Who Is Getting ACA Insurance--And Who Isn't by Julie Rovner.  Kaiser Health News.  December 4, 2014.

Workplace Wellness Programs: Do They Work? Why Are They Popular

Wellness At Work:  Popular But Unproven by Julie Rovner.  Kaiser Health News.  December 9, 2014.

Predicting The Flu Like Predicting The Weather

Predicting The Flu So You Can Avoid It by Jen Christensen.  CNN.  December 10, 2014.

Systemic Issue In American Healthcare--Failure To Adopt New Research: The Case Of Breast Cancer

How We Treat Breast Cancer Exposes A Huge Systematic Issue In American Health Care by Sarah Kliff.  Vox.  December 10, 2014.

Continuing Effort To Rescue Rural Georgia Hospitals, Six Of Which "Could Go Tomorrow Due To Low Cash;" Medicaid Expansion Still Off The Table

Sagging rural Hospital Tries To Get An Urban Boost by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  December 9, 2014.

Psychologists, Paid 80m by CIA To Devise Torture Techniques, Employed Concept Of Learned Helplessness

CIA Paid Psychologists $80m To Devise And Use Torture Techniques by Rob Crilly.  The Telegraph.  December 9, 2014.

U.S. Senate Report Confirms Health Professionals' Complicity In CIA Torture.  Physicians For Human rights.  December 9, 2014.

Hoping To Duplicate The Success of His Brain Science Institute, Paul Allen Funds Massive Study Of Cells And How They Change

Billionaire Paul Allen Donates $100m To New 'Industrial Scale' Effort to Understand Human Cells by Arianna Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  December 8, 2014.

Health-Cost Slowdown Reflects Basic Change In Health Care System

The Health-Cost Slowdown Isn't Just About The Economy by David Leonhardt.  The Upshot.  December 5, 2014.

Immunotherapy For Cancer

Cancer's Super-Survivors by Ron Winslow.  The Wall Street Journal.  December 4, 2014.

Big Data Useful In Targeting Audiences For Public Health Campaigns

Big Data Offer New Strategy For Public Health Campaigns by Shefali Luthra.  Kaiser Health News.  December 3, 2014.

Film To Highlight Work Of Remote Area Medical, An Organization Aimed At Serving The Underserved

Delivering Health Care To the Uninsured For $15 A Pop by Allison Bruzek.  GPB News.  December 5, 2014.

Dating With A Mental Illness

Dating With A Mental Illness by Amir Khan.  U.S. News.  December 5, 2014.

Fighting Malaria Assists Fight Against Ebola

Sierra Leone Gives Out Malaria Pills In Fight Against Ebola.    AFP/Mail Online.  December 5, 2014.

Depression Treatment Levels Do Not Match Severity Of Problem

7.6% Of Americans Are Depressed But Few Seek Mental Health Treatment by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles Times.  December 3, 2014.

Male Smokers Risk Loss Of Y Chromosomes and Increased Cancer Risk

Scientists Find Why Male Smokers May Run Even Higher Health Risks by Kate Kelland.  Reuters.  December 4, 2014.

PriceWaterhouseCooper Report On Top 10 Healthcare Issues For 2015

Top Health Industry Issues Of 2015.  PricewaterhouseCoopers' Health Research Institute.

Multiple-Drug Resistant Superbugs Threaten India And The World

'Superbugs' Kill India's Babies And Pose An Overseas Threat by Gardiner Harris.  The New York Times.  December 3, 2014.

FBI Uniform Crime Report On Police Killings Not Reliable; Most Reliable Source--Facebook Page

Reminder:  The FBI's 'Police Homicide' Count Is Wrong by Reuben Fischer-Baum.  Fivethirtyeight.com.  November 12, 2014.

Growth In U.S. Health Spending In 2013 Is Lowest Since 1960; Recession And Affordable Care Act Contributed

Growth In U.S. Health Spending In 2013 Is Lowest Since 1960 by Mary Agnes Carey.  Kaiser Health News.  December 3, 2014.

Indian Women With Mental Disabilities Treated "Worse Than Animals" According To Human Rights Watch Report

Indian Women At Risk In Mental Institutions by Muneeza Naqvi.  Associated Press/ABC News.  December 3, 2014.

Mediterranean Diet Found To Slow The Process Of Telomere Shrinkage, A Biomarker Of Aging

Eating The Mediterranean Diet May Lead To A Longer Life by Christina Lee.  CNN Health.  December 3, 2014.

New Understanding Of Stress Trigger And Process May Lead to Treatments For PTSD And Depression

'Trigger' For Stress Processes Discovered In The Brain.  Medical University Of Vienna.  Medical Express.  November 27, 2014.

Improvements Noted Though Hospital Acquired Conditions Still Are At Almost 10 Percent

Hospital-Acquired Conditions Drop  17% Over 3 Years by Joyce Frieden.  MedPage Today.  December 2, 2014.

Biomarker Testing For Drunk Drivers Offers New Approach To Old Problem

Biomarker Tests Help Monitor Repeat Drunken Drivers by Katie Golden.  USA TODAY.  December 1, 2014.

Under Pressure From Antiretrovirals, HIV May Be Evolving To Cause AIDS Less Frequently

HIV May Evolve To Cause AIDS Less Frequently, Researchers Find by Oliver Staley.  Bloomberg Businessweek.  December 1, 2014.

HIV's Ability To Cause AIDS is Weakening Over Time, Study Finds by Kate Kelland.  Reuters.  December 1, 2014.

Myths About Aging Exploded

Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong by Anne Tergesen.  The Wall Street Journal.  November 30, 2014.