Early In 2016, CVS And IBM's Watson Will Move Toward Providing Predictive Analytics For Chronic Diseases

CVS, IBM Partner For Technology-Based Health Care by Jennifer Calfas.  USA TODAY.  July 30, 2015. 

By Detecting Health Problems Earlier, Watson Is Expected To Cut Healthcare Costs by Lucas Mearian.  

Five Different Types Of Prostate Cancer Identified, Paving The Way For More Personalized And Effective Treatment

Prostate Cancer Can Be Categorized Into Five Different Types  by Peter Lam.  Medical News Today.  July 30, 2015. 

Local Hospital Institutes In-House Produce Market For Employee Health

St. Mary's Produce Stand Helps Health Care Workers Stay Healthy by Lauren Marie Schumacker.  July 29, 2015.

Evolution Of Disease And "Leaky" Vaccines

Vaccines That Alter Evolution by Faye Flam.  Forbes.  July 28, 2015. 

In Large Study, Americans Report Improved Health And Healthcare After The Affordable Care Act

Americans Report Improved Health, Better Healthcare:  Study by Andrew M. Seaman.  Reuters.  July 28, 2015. 

Aging More Of A Flip Of A Switch Than A Continuous Process; The Switch Is Flipped A Sexual Maturity

Simple Flip Of Genetic Switch Determines Aging Or Longevity In Animals.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  July 23, 2015. 

Calories Consumed Daily Show First Sustained Decline In More Than 40 Years

Americans Are Finally Eating Less by Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  July 24, 2015. 

Potential Nonsurgical Treatment For Cataracts, The World's Leading Cause Of Blindness

Drops Show Promise As Nonsurgical Cataract Treatment by Dennis Thompson.  WebMD News from HealthDay.  July 22, 2015. 

Changing How You Think About Exercise: Why Health Is Not An Effective Motivator

Rethinking Exercise As A Source Of Immediate Rewards by Jane E. Brody.  Well.  The New York Times.  July 20, 2015

Nature Walks Change The Brain

How Walking In Nature Changes The Brain by Gretchen Reynolds.  Well.  The New York Times.  July 22, 2015.

Music Training Shapes Teenage Brain For Language Skills

How Music Training Alters The Teenage Brain.  Northwestern University/Science Daily.  July 20, 2015.

"Phenomenal Migration Of Patients To Uninsured, Underinsured and Self-Pay; Survey Shows Healthcare Affordability Issues In Georgia

Poll Finds Big Gaps In Rural Health Care by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  July 22, 2015. 

Study Of Low-Risk Hospital Deliveries Shows Wide Cost Variation

How Much Does It Cost To Have A Baby?  Hospital Study Finds Huge Price Range by Michelle Andrews.  Kaiser Health News.  July 17, 2015. 

Oncologists Call For New Drug Cost Regulations; Cancer Drugs Projected To Grow At Compounded Annual Rate of 11.6% Through 2020.

Doctors Object To High Cancer-Drug Prices by Jeanne Whalen.  The Wall Street Journal.  July 23, 2015. 

Atlanta And Chicago Hospitals Compared: Impact Of Medicaid Expansion Or Non-Expansion

Some Public Hospitals Win, Others Lose With Obamacare by Robin Respaut.  Reuters.  July 23, 2015. 

Research Challenge to Drug Prices: Are Skyrocketing Costs Justified?

Rising U.S. Drug Prices Are Focus Of Research Grant by Peter Loftus.  The Wall Street Journal.  July 20, 2015.

Protein Clumping May Be Culprit In Several Neurological Disorders

New Clues To Target Alzheimer's Found In Proteins by Shirley S. Wang.  The Wall Street Journal.  July 20, 2015. 

Large Trial For AIDS Treatment Plan: Battering HIV Into Submission Quickly After Initial Infection

Largest Trial For AIDS Treatment Planned After French Teen's Cure by Simeon Bennett.  Reuters.  July 20, 2015. 

Surgeon Scorecard: Nationwide Database Of Complications For Elective Procedures In Medicare

Surgeon Scorecard by Sisi Wei, Olga Pierce And Marshall Allen.  ProPublica.  July 15, 2015. 

Startups Provide Alternative To Residency For Some Medical School Graduates

Siren Song Of Tech Lures New Doctors Away From Medicine by Christina Farr.  NPR/GPB News.  July 19, 2015. 

Female Mice Not Represented In Lab Studies Perhaps Skewing Results

Why Science Needs Female Mice by The Editorial Board.  The New York Times.  July 18, 2015. 

For The First Time In The Nation Two States Will Allow Birth Control Pills And Hormonal Contraceptives Without Doctor's Prescriptions

California, Oregon To Allow Hormonal Contraceptives Without A Doctor's Prescription by Barbara Feder Ostrov.  Kaiser Health News.  July 15, 2015. 

Medicare Rating System For Home Health Agencies Aims To Provide Quality Indications; Address Problem Of How To Tell Good From The Bad

Home Health Agencies Get Medicare's Star Treatment by Jordan Rau.  Kaiser Health News.  July 16,  2015. 

New Weight-Loss Strategies Needed: Obese People Almost Never Reach Normal Weight

Obese People Almost Never Attain Normal Weight, Study Finds by Bianca Seidman.  CBS News.  July 17, 2015. 

FDA Approved Authoritative Blood Test Outside A Lab

A Second FDA Approval Frees Theranos To Do A Blood Test Outside Lab by Roger Parloff.  Fortune.  July 16, 2015

JAMA Articles Address Issues Of Statin Use

When To Start Taking A Cholesterol Pill?  The Decision Is Yours by Harlan Krumholz M.D.  NPR.  July 15, 2015. 

WHO: Countries Must Invest More In Mental Health In Hard Times

Countries Must Invest More In Mental Health In Hard Times--WHO by Stephanie Nebehay.  Reuters.  July 14, 2015. 

Serendipity, Innovation, And Developing New Ideas: Engineering A Process

Engineering Serendipity.  Medium-Aspen Ideas Festival 2014. 

Patterns Of Pain Killer Abuse Revealed In UGA Study

Study Reveals Patterns Of Prescription Drug Abuse by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  July 13, 2015. 

British Recommendation: Stay Out Of The Hospital For Straightforward Pregnancies

Should More Women Give Birth Outside The Hospital?  by Dianna Douglas.  NPR/GPB.  July 13, 2015. 

Health Effects Of Climate Change? The Science Is In Its Infancy But Evidence Is Accumulating

Unraveling The Relationship Between Climate Change And Health by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  July 13, 2015. 

Generic Naming Convention For Newborns Increases Risk Of Medical Errors By Misidentification

What's In A Name?  For Newborns, Maybe Fewer Medical Errors by Tara Haelle.  HealthDay News/Philly.com.  July 13, 2015. 

Healthy Beverage Index Developed To Evaluate Cardiometabolic Risk

Nutrition Researchers Develop Healthy Beverage Index.  Elsevier Health Sciences/Science Daily.  July 9, 2015. 

Emergency Nurses Are Highly Susceptible To Death Anxiety

Regular Exposure To Death, Trauma Causes Death Anxiety In Emergency Nurses.  RCNi/Science Daily.  July 10, 2015. 

Bioelectric Medicine Offers To Harness Link Between Nervous And Immune Systems

Using Electricity To Treat Arthritis And Cancer? by Bret Steka, MD and Kevin Tracey MD.  Medscape.  May 12, 2015. 

Deadly And Costly Condition That Hospitalizes More Patients Than Heart Attack And Stroke Combined

The Surprising Health Condition That's America's Costliest--And One Of Its Most Lethal.  Newser/Yahoo.  July 7, 2015. 

Psychologists In Ethical Clash Chose to Protect Torture Program

Psychologists Shielded U.S.  Torture Program , Report Finds by James Fisen  The New York Times.  July 10, 2015. 

Study: Education Should Be Part Of U.S. Health Policy--Mortality And Education Levels Linked

Getting A Higher Education May Lengthen Your Life--Just Look At The Numbers by Justin Caba.  Medical Daily

Diabetes Results In Impaired Ability To Regulate Blood Flow In Brain Resulting In Cognitive And Daily Living Decline

The Scary Way Diabetes Affects Thinking Skills And Brain Function by Carolyn Gregoire.  Huffington Post.  June 11, 2015. 

Testing Of Online 'Symptom Checkers': How They Stack Up

Harvard Researchers Tested 23 Online 'Symptom Checkers."  Most Got Failing Grades.  Here's How They Stack Up by Ariana Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  July 10, 2015. 

Completely Eliminating Every Case Of Key Heart Disease Risk Factors Would Reduce Heart Disease Deaths by 54%

Half Of Heart Disease Deaths Due To Preventable Factors by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  June 30, 2015. 

Medicare Will Pay Doctors For End Of Life Counseling; Physician Assistants And Nurse Practitioner

Medicare Plans To Pay Doctors For Counseling On End Of Life by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  July 8, 2015. 

Pharma Payments To Nurses And Physician Assistant Largely Overlooked In New Data

Transparency Program Obscures Pharma Payments To Nurses, Physician Assistants by Charles Ornstein.  ProPublica.  July 6, 2015.

Gene Therapy For Deafness Advances With New Delivery Methods

Therapy For Deafness Moves A Few Steps Closer by Ben Hirschler.  Reuters.  July 8, 2015. 

Major Pharmaceutical Chain Quits U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Over A Global Lobbying Campaign Against Antismoking Laws

CVS Health Quits U.S. chamber Over Stance On Smoking by Danny Hakim.  The New York Times.  July 7, 2015. 

Consequences Of Excessive Screen Viewing For Children And Adolescents

Screen Addiction Is Taking A Toll On Children by Jane E. Brody.  The New York Times.  July 6, 2015. 

Long-Acting Birth Control Program In Colorado Is A Startling Success With Teen Pregnancies

Colorado's Effort Against Teenage Pregnancies Is A Startling Success by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  July 5, 2015. 

Clinicians Working While Sick: How Often? Why?

Survey Finds Many Physicians, Clinicians Work Sick Despite Risk To Patients.  JAMA Pediatrics/Infection Control Today.  July 6, 2015. 

Fitness Age Much Less Than Chronological Age In Older Athletes

Older Athletes Have A Strikingly Young Fitness Age by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  July 1, 2015. 

Evolutionary Genetic Diversity Seems To Produce Smarter And Taller People; No Impact Found On Blood Pressure Or Cholesterol

Humans Evolved To Be Taller And Faster-Thinking, Study Suggests.  University of Edinburgh/Science Daily.  July 1, 2015. 

Nearly 30-Year-Old System For Regulating Genetically Modified Crops Up For Review

White House Orders Review Of Rules For Genetically Modified Crops by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  July 2, 2015. 

Tale Of Two Georgia Hospitals Separated By Uncompensated Care

A Tale Of Two (Neighboring) Hospitals by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  June 23, 2015. 

3 Things You Can Catch From A Pool

3 Things You Can Catch From A Pool by Roshini Raj.  Time.  July 3, 2015. 

The Deadly Cost Of Austerity On Greece's Health Care System

The Deadly Cost Of Austerity On Greece's Health Care System by Charlotte Alfred.  Huffington Post.  July 3, 2015. 

Testing Method Poised To Disrupt The Lab Diagnostic Industry Receives FDA Approval

Disruptive Diagnostics Firm Theranos Gets Boost From FDA by Roger Parloff.  Fortune.  July 2, 2015. 

How The Brain Forms Associations Seen At Level Of Individual Neurons

Brain Study Sheds Light On How New Memories Are Formed.  UCLA/Medical XPress.  July 1, 2015. 

One-Third Of World Population Lack Access To Sanitation Facilities

UN Report On World Sanitation:  How Have Challenges Been Addressed?  by Snontee Pant.  Christian Science Monitor.  July 1, 2015.