Longer Life Span Plus Poorer Health Will Put Strains On Medicare As Baby Boomers Retire

Baby Boomers Set Another Trend:  More Golden Years In Poorer Health by Lisa Gillespie.  Kaiser Health News.  December 17, 2015. 

Comparative Analysis: Home Versus Hospital Births

As Home Births Grow In U.S., A New Study Examines The Risks by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  December 30, 2015. 

Worldwide, Treatments Of Gonorrhea Becoming More Limited Due to Antibiotic Resistance

Untreatable Form Of Gonorrhea May Show Up In The U.S. by Emma Court.  Market Watch.   December 30, 2015. 

20% Of Clinical Trails Don't Draw Enough Participants

Why 1 In 5 Cancer Clinical Trials Fizzle by Bill Briggs.  Fred Hutch News Service.  December 29, 2015. 

Medications On School Campuses

Medicines On School Campus:  Careful What You Bring by Lauren Baggett.  Georgia Health News.  December 28, 2015. 

Working Poor Fall Through The Cracks In Healthcare System

Most Of Those Without Medicaid Are The Working Poor by Jayne O'Donnell And laura Ungar.  USA TODAY.  December 28, 2015. 

Precision Weight Loss Based On Genetics May Be Future Of Dieting

Precision Weight Loss Based On Genetics May Be Future Of Dieting by Stephen Feller.  UPI.  December 25, 2015. 

Forming Companies To Foster Rare Disease Cures; Increasing Tool For The Well-Connected

Parents Of Children With Rare Diseases Find Hope In For-Profit Companies by Paul Sullivan.  The New York Times.  December 25, 2015. 

Innovation In Patient Experience Design, Technology, And Data Tracking Is Objective Of Sloan Kettering Surgery Center

A Surgery Center That Doubles As An Idea Lab by Natasha Singer.  The New York Times.  December 26, 2015. 

Birth Trends: Twins Up Slightly; Other Multiple Births Down; Teen Births Hit Historic Low

Teen Birth Rate, Multiple Birth Reach Historic Low by Kimberly Leonard.  US News.  December 23, 2015. 

Clarkston Georgia Facilitates Efforts To Meet Refugee Healthcare Needs

Refugees In Clarkston Get Help For Health Challenges by Judi Kanne.  Georgia Health News.  December 18, 2015. 

Burnout, Doctors, And The Current State Of Medicine

Balancing Act:  Doctors At Particular Risk Of Burnout by Cindy Krischer Goodman.  Miami Herald.  December 15, 2015. 

Kaiser Permanente Plans To Open A Medical School; One Of The First run By An Integrated Health System Without An Academic Partner

Kaiser Permanente Plans To Open A Medical School by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  December 17, 2015. 

"Play Safe" Versus "Safe Sex:" The Beginning Of A New Era?

New York Revamps Safe Sex by Ginia Bellafante.  New York Times.  December 18, 2015. 

Drug Use And Healthcare Associated Infections Contribute To Vulnerability To Infectious Disease Outbreak; States Ranked According To Preparedness

Most States Not Prepared For Disease Outbreaks:  Drug Use May Be Key Contributor To Ongoing Infectious Disease Problem by Susan Scutti.  Medical Daily.  December 18, 2015. 

Secondary PTSD May Be Suprisingly Common

When PTSD Is Contagious by Aaron Reuben.  The Atlantic.  December 14, 2015. 

Targeting Specific Gut Microbes Perhaps Could Be Objective Of Future Heart Drugs

Tomorrow's Heart Drugs Might Target Gut Microbes by Ed Yong.  The Atlantic.  December 17, 2015. 

Lifestyle or Luck? Cancer Found To Be More The Result Of Lifestyle And Environment Than Random Genetic Chance

Cancer May Be More Within Our Control Than We Thought by Alice G. Walton.  Forbes.  December 17, 2015. 

Profit, Non-Profits, Hedge Funds, And Hospitals

Nonprofit Hospitals On The Ropes:  Hedge Funds Moving In by Clayton Browne.  ValueWalk.  December 16, 2015. 

Political And Bureaucratic Factors In Deciding Who Gets What Treatment

Even In Basic Health Decisions, You Can't Screen Out Politics by Aaron E. Carroll.  The New York Times.  December 14, 2015. 

Price Is The Neglected Factor In Cheaper Health Care; Cost Is Not All-Important

The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places For Better And Cheaper Health Care by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz

Western Lifestyle Increases Cancer Burden In Poorest Corners Of The World

Global Cancer Hotspots:  Burden Of Disease Is Shifting To Developing World by Ariana Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  December 14, 2015. 

Former Georgia Resident Is A Case Study Illustrating The Difficulties Of Poor Transgender Women

"A Whole New Being":  A Transgender Woman's Journey by Deborah Sontag.  New York Times.  December 12, 2015. 

Study: Highly Stress Levels May Double Risk Of Developing Neurodegenerative Disease

Higher Stress Levels May Double Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease In Older Adults by Jalessa Baulkman.  Medical Daily.  December 13, 2015. 

Sex Education Programs In U.S. Schools Often Fails To Meet Standards

U.S. Schools Still Lack Sufficient Sex Education Programs by Jessica Firger.  Newsweek.  December 11, 2015

WHO Report Identifies Countries With High Life Expectancy At Age 60

Do These Countries Hold The Secret To A Long And Healthy Life?  by Meera Senthillingam.  CNN.  December 11, 2015. 

Increase In Alcohol Taxes Apears Linked To Decreased Gonorrhea Rates

Increase In Alcohol Tax Appears To Have Decreased Gonorrhea Rates In Maryland.  University of Florida/Science Daily.  December 9, 2015. 

One In Five Children Have High Cholesterol; Lifestyle Choices Are The Drivers

One In Five American Kids Has High Cholesterol by Cameron Scott.  Healthline News.  December 9, 2015. 

New Strategic Affiliation For Athens Hospital; Balance Of Local Control, Patient Care, And Lower Cost Sought

UPDATE:  Athens Regional Moves To Pursue Affiliation With Piedmont Healthcare by Ed Morales.  Online Athens.  December 9, 2015. 

Georgia Brings Up The Rear In Health Ranking; Not Worst But Almost

Georgia's Low Health Ranking Sinks Even Lower by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  September 9, 2015. 

Support For The Belief That Negative Sterotypes About Aging Leads To Cognitive Decline and Cardiovascular Disease

Alzheimer's May Exact Its Revenge On Those Who Hold Negative Beliefs About Older People by Melissa Healy.  Los Angeles Times.  December 7, 2015. 

Drug That May Have Helped Jimmy Carter's Tumors Vanish

Here's A Look At Keytruda, The Drug Jimmy Carter Says Made His Tumors Vanish by Maggie Fox.  NBC News.  December 7, 2015. 

First U.S. Penis Transplant Planned For Wounded Troops

Penis Transplants Being Planned To Help Wounded Troops by Denise Grady.  New York Times.  December 6, 2015. 

Mental Health Proposal Could Offer Partial Solution To Gun Violence Problem

How Fixing America's Mental Health System Might Catch Future Mass Shooters by Michelle Hackman.  Vox  December 4, 2015. 

Exceptional America: The Rate Of Gun Deaths

In Other Countries, You're As Likely To Be Killed By A Falling Object As By A Gun by Kevin Quealy. 

Food And Emotions: 90 Percent Overlook Key To Weight Loss, Survey Finds

Food And Emotions:  90 Percent Overlook Key To Weight Loss, Survey Finds.  Orlando Health/Science Daily.  December 1, 2015. 

One In 10 Globally Suffer From Foodborne Diseases, WHO Study Finds

One In 10 Globally Suffer From Foodborne Diseases, WHO Study Finds.  University of Florida/Science Daily.  December 3, 2015. 

Hints That Experiences Can Modify A Man's Sperm

Parents May Pass Down More than Just Genes, Study Suggests by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  December 3, 2015. 

Refugee Crisis Leads To Innovation In Mental Health Therapy

Psychologists Are Designing Refugee-Focused Therapies For Migrants by by Kate Kelland.  Reuters/Huffington Post.  December 3, 2015. 

Historic Conference Addresses The Scientific And Societal Implications Of Genome Editing

What Can You Actually Do With Your Fancy Gene-Editing Technology by Ed Yong.  The Atlantic.  December 2, 2015. 

C.D.C Directors Advocates Deployment Of Public Health Tools To Avoid Losing The War on AIDS

U.S. Still In Danger Of Losing War On AIDS, C.D.C. Director Says by Donald G. McNeil.  New York Times.  December 1, 2015.