Merger And Acquisitions Activity Dominated By Health Care

Busiest Day For Health-Care Deals Is Set To Spawn More:  Real M&A by Tara Lachapelle.  BloombergBusiness.  March 30, 2015. 

Obamacare Saving Hospital Millions, Despite Georgia's Refusal To Expand Medicaid

Obamacare Saving Hospital Millions.  The Brunswick News.  March 28, 2015. 

Diet-Influenced Microbiome May Influence Behavior; Fat Produces Signs Of Brain Inflammation

High-Fat Diet Alters Behavior And Produces Signs Of Brain Inflammation.  Elsevier/Science Daily.  March 26, 2015. 

Lead Screening For Georgia Children Has Large Gaps; Counties With Older Housing Particularly Vulnerable To Lead Risk

Many Kids Exposed To Lead Go Untested?  by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  March 30, 2015. 

Is Enabling End-Of-Life Choices Of A Dying Person Different From Suicide? Issues Raised By California Suit Are Profound

Hoping To Live, These Doctors Want A Choice In How They Die by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  March 30, 2015. 

Study Finds That Parents Do Not Accurately Assess Whether Their Children Are Overweight Or Obese; Overweight Prevalence May Skew Perceptions

Can You Tell If Your Child Is Overweight?  Most Parents Can't Study Finds by Alice G. Walton.  Forbes.  March 30, 2015. 

Perceptual Learning Training In Visual Data Interpretation Helps Doctors Identify Abnormalities

Learning To See Data by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  March 27, 2015. 

DNA Database Communications: Connecting Millions Of Genomes In Order To Benefit From The Experience Of Others

Internet Of DNA by Antonio Regalado.  Technology Review.  March/April 2015.

Ability To Easily Share Anitibiotic Resistance Genes Points To Increased DIfficulty In Fighting Hospital-Associated Infections

Common Bacteria On Verge Of Becoming Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs.  Washington University School of Medicine/Science Daily.  March 25, 2015. 

American Health Rankings by county

How Healthy Is Your Community?  University Of Wisconsin Population Health Institute/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  March 25, 2015. 

Depression Takes A Toll On Workplace, A Symptom For Fragmented Care For Mental Illness

Depression, Related Ailments Take Their Toll On The Workplace, Study Finds by Lisa Gillespie.  Kaiser Health News.  March 23, 2015. 

Medical Marijuana In Georgia Shows Fissure In Republican Party

How "Marijuana Refugees' Brought Legal Cannabis To Georgia by Patrik Jonsson.  Christian Science Monitor.  March 27, 2015. 

Google And Johnson & Johnson Team On Robots For Minimally-Invasive Surgery

Google Moves To The Operating Room In Robotics Deal With J&J by Alistair Barr and Joseph Walker.  Wall Street Journal.  March 27, 2015. 

Minimally Invasive Surgery Options Often Not Offered To Patients Resulting In Higher Costs And Risk

Patients Often Aren't Offered Minimally Invasive Surgery by Nancy Shute.  WLRN.  March 256, 2015. 

Possible Association Between Air Pollution And Anxiety Cited In Study; Connection Between Air Pollution And Cardiovascular Health Confirmed

Could Smoggy Air Raise Your Anxiety Level?  by Amy Norton.  HealthDay/US News.  March 25, 2015. 

Alzheimer's Patients Often Not Told They Had The Disease Even As They Received Treatments

Many With Alzheimer's Aren't Told Of Diagnosis By Doctor:  Report by Dennis Thompson.  HealthDay/US News.  March 24, 2015. 

Large Gender Gap In RN Pay; Difference Not Explained By Education And Experience

Is A Male Nurse Worth $5,148 More Than A Female Nurse?  by Karen Kaplan.  Los Angeles Times.  March 24, 2015. 

Study Finds Association Between Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Migraine; Nerve Compression May Be The Common Element

Association Between Migraine, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Found.  Wolters Kluwer Health/Science Daily.  March 23, 2015. 

Increasingly Potent Pot, Changing Balance Between THC and CBD, And Labling Issues Are Issues Raised By New Study

New Study Shows How The Potency Of Pot Has Changed Over Time by Alice G. Walton.  Forbes.  March 23, 2015. 

Transforming Health Care Computing Into An Essential Tool, Not An Obstacle

Why Health Care Tech Is Still So Bad by Robert M. Wachter.  The New York Times.  March 21, 2015. 

Wireless Contact Sensors Used To Monitor Spread Of MRSA's In Hospital; Key To Designing Control Measures

Wireless Sensors Help Scientists Map Staph Spread Inside Hospital by Scott Hensley.  Georgia Public Broadcasting.  March 21, 2015. 

Early Exposure To Peanuts Cuts Risk For Developing Peanut Allergy; Perhaps A Clue To Other Allergies?

Could Peanut Studies Point The Way To A Cur For Other Allergies? by Nic Fleming.  The Guardian.  March 22, 2015. 

Robot/Infant Study Suggests Body Position Critical to Toddler's Ability to Connect Ideas

Robot Model For Infant Learning Shows Bodily Posture May Affect Memory And Learning.  Indiana University/Science Daily.  March 18, 2015.

Disruption Of Medical Systems As A Result Of Ebola Makes Vaccinations Critical For Diseases Such As Measles

Boosting Vaccination Coverage 'Very Pressing' To Recovery Process In Ebola-Stricken Countries:  WHO by Eleanor Goldberg.  March 20, 2015. 

Ban Sought On Method To Edit Human Heredity

Scientists Seek Ban On Method Of Editing The Human Genome by Nicholas Wade.  The New York Times.  March 19, 2015. 

First Registered Disease-Modifying Drug For Alzheimer's Also Confirms Protein Theory Of The Disease

Biogen Drug Gives New Momentum To Decades-Old Protein Hypothesis by Jason Gale, Makiko Kitamura, And Cynthia Koons.  BloombergBusiness.  March 20, 2015. 

Survey: Most People Unaware Subsidies For Healthcare Coverage Are At Risk In Supreme Court Case

Most Americans Unaware Obamacare Subsidies Are At Risk by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  March 19, 2015. 

Virtually No System In Place To Fight The Next Epidemic; Outline Proposed To Create One

How To Fight The Next Epidemic by Bill Gates.  The New York Times.  March 18, 2015. 

Top N.F.L Rookie Retires Citing Concerns About Safety And Injury

Chris Borland, Fearing For Health Retires From The 49ers.  At 24 by Ken Belson.  The New York Times. 

Smart Bandage Uses Electrical Currents To Detect Tissue Damage From Pressure Ulcers Before They Can Be Seen

'Smart Bandage' Detects Bed Sores Before They Are Visible To Doctors by Sarah Yang.  UC Berkeley News Center.  March 17, 2015. 

Shared Decisionmaking In Treatment Options Empowers Patients

Inviting Patients To Help Decide Their Own Treatment by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  March 16, 2015. 

A Billion At Risk For Hearing Loss From Exposure To Loud Music

A Billion At Risk For Hearing Loss From Exposure To Loud Music by Sandee LaMotte.  CNN  March 6, 2015. 

Fat Talk Linked With Body Dissatisfaction and Eating Disorder And Is Contagious

The Problem With "Fat Talk" by Renee Engelin.  The New York Times.  March 13, 2015.

Acquired Genes From Microorganisms May Have Shaped And May Continue To Shape Evolution Even For Primates

Some Genes "Foreign" In Origin And Not From Our Ancestors.  BioMed Central/Science Daily.  March 12, 2015. 

High Intensity Exercise Reaches A Point Of Dimishing Return: The Case Of Marathons

Is Running Marathons Bad For Your Health by Parvati Shallow.  CBS News.  March 13, 2015.

Clinic Model Is Rising In Retail Health Care; Florida Is An Example

Retail Health Care Spurs Innovation In South Florida by Chabeli Herrera.  Kaiser, Health.  March 12, 2015. 

Clinical Empathy Receives Increasing Emphasis In Doctor Training

Efforts To Instill Empathy Among Doctors Is Paying Dividends by Sandra G. Boodman.  Kaiser Health News.  March 12, 2015. 

Physicial Activity Seems To Maintain Movement Abilities Even In Cases Of Age-Related Brain Damage

Physical Activity May Protect Older People From Brain Damage by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  March 12, 2015. 

Artificial Heart With One Moving Part And Does Not Beat Could Revolutionize Transplants

New Bionic Heart Doesn't Beat And That's Why It Could Revolutionize Transplants by SydneyLupkin.  March 11, 2015. 

Depression Found To Alter General Perception Of The Passage Of Time But Not For The Duration Of Specific Events

Experience Of Time Is Altered In Depression, Meta-Study Shows.  Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz/Science Daily.  March 11, 2015. 

Historical Documents Show How Sugar Industry Shaped Government Prevention Strategies Away From Decreased Consumption

Sugar Industry Influenced Research On Cavity Prevention by Liz Szabo.  USA TODAY.  March 10, 2015. 

Nestle To Remove Artificial Colors From Chocolate Candies; Start Of A Trend?

Goodbye To Artificial Colors?  by Marion Nestle.  CNN.  March 4, 2015.

"Dallas Ebola Nurse" Tells Her Side Of The Story In Lawsuit

The Real Story Of How A Dallas Nurse Got Ebola Could Be Worse Than We Ever Imagined by Lauren F. Friedman.  Yahoo! Finance.  March 4, 2015.

Pescovegetarians Found To Be Most Resistant To Colorectal Cancer In Study Of Seventh Day Adventist

Vegetarian Diet Linked To Reduced Colorectal Cancer Risk by Fran Lowry.  Medscape.  March 9, 2015.

If Supreme Court Rules Against ACA Subsidies, 62% Of Those Who Would Lose Insurance Live In The South

Politics Counts:  Who Wants Congress To Keep Health Subsidies?  by Dante Chinni.  The Wall Street Journal.  March 5, 2015. 

Digital Dilemma For Medicine: How To Share Records

Digital Dilemma For Medicine:  How To Share Records by Eric Whitney.  Montana Public Radio/Kaiser Health News

What's At Stake In Supreme Court Obamacare Decision

What Ending Health Subsidies Means by The Editorial Board.  The New York Times.  March 7, 2015. 

Purpose In Life Linked To Lower Risk Of Cardiovascular Incidents

Have A Sense Of Purpose In Life?  It May Protect Your Heart.  Mount Sinai Medical Center/Science Daily.  March 6, 2015. 

Leaky Sensory Filters Related To Creativity

Creative Genius Driven By Distraction.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  March 3, 2015. 

FDA Approves Copy Of Biologic Drug, Possibly Leading To Dramatically Lower Costs On Medicines Produced In Living Cells

FDA Approves First Lower-Cost Biotech Drug by Matthew Perrone and Linda A. Johnson.  AP/ABC News.  March 6, 2015. 

Men Trump Women In Narcissism, Perhaps A Key To Career Advancement

Study:  Men Are The Narcissists Of The Species by  Robert Preidt.  HealthDay.  US News.  March 5, 2015. 

Stroke Care Within the "Golden Hour" Unlikely For Up To 114 Million; Ground Access To Care Lower In The Southeast

Stroke Rounds:  'Golden Hour' Care Unlikely For One-Third Of Americans by Salynn Boyles.  Medpage Today.  March 5, 2015.

Multiple Donor Kidney Swaps Increasingly Common; 6-Way Swap In San Francisco

S. F. Hospital To Perform Rare 6-Way Kidney Transplant by Kurtis Alexander.  SF Gate.  March 4, 2015. 

Back And Forth Arguments On Obamacare At The Supreme Court

Will Concern For States Rights Win Out In Subsidies Battle?  Today's Argument In Plain English by Amy Howe

Analyis of Supreme Court Arguments On Obamacare: King v. Burwell

Argument Analysis:  Setting Up The Private Debate On The ACA by Lyle Denniston.  Scotus Blog.  March 4, 2015. 

Hospital Rankings Differ Wildly

What Are the Best Hospitals?  Rankings Disagree by Melinda Beck.  The Wall Street Journal.  March 2, 2015. 

Overprescribing Antipsychotic--In And Out Of Nursing Homes

Feds Do Little To Halt Antipsychotics Use Among Elderly Not In Nursing Homes by Ed Silverman  The Wall Street Journal.  March 2, 2015. 

Medicalizing The Feelings Of Normal Women

Medicating Women's Feelings by Julie Holland.  The New York Times.  February 28, 2015. 

Discussion Of Anonymous Genetic Testing

23andMe And The Promise Of Anonymous Genetic Testing.  The Opinion Pages/Room For Debate.  March 2, 2015.