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. 

Use Of Computers During Appointments Leaves Patients Less Satisfied; Doctors Spend More Time Correcting Or Disagreeing With Patients

Doctors' Use Of Computers During Appointments Leaves Patients Less Satisfied by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  November 30, 2015. 

Brains Of Men And Women Not That Different

The Brains Of Men And Women Aren't Really that Different, Study Finds by Kate Wheeling.  Science Magazine, 

New York Becomes The First U.S. City To Warn Of Sodium Levels In Foods

New York Is The First U.S. City With Salt Warning On Restaurant Menus by Barbara Goldberg.  November 30, 2015. 

Public Policy Shifts In The 70's Have LedTo Greater Regional Inequality And Inequality Between Metro Areas

Why The Economic Fates Of America's Cities Diverged by Phillip Longman.  The Atlantic.  November 28, 2015. 

Obesity In Youth Linked To Heightened Risk For Sudden Cardia Death Later In Life

Obesity In Youth May Harm Health Later In Life, Even After Weight Loss  by Robert Preidt.  CBS News.  November 27, 2015. 

Wall Street Journal: "Pros And Cons Of Concierge Medicine"

Wall Street Journal:  "Pros And Cons Of Concierge Medicine" by Jen Wieczner.  Wall Street Journal/Concierge Medicine Today.  November 25, 2015. 

Male And Female Drinking Patterns Becoming More Alike In The US

Male And Female Drinking Patterns Becoming More Alike In The US.  National Institutes Of Health.  November 23, 2015. 

Newly Developed Artificial Skin Senses Touch And Heat

Artificial Skin Senses Touch And Heat by Mo Constandi.  The Guardian.  November 16, 2015. 

F.D.A Targets Inaccurate Medical Tests; Unnecessary, Costly And Dangerous Treatments May Result; Effort To Personalize Medicine Endangered

F.D.A. Targets Inaccurate Medical Tests, Citing Dangers And Costs by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  November 23, 2015. 

Higher Resting Heart Rate Linked To Greater Risk Of Death By All Causes

Beats Per Minute:  The Higher Your Resting Heart Rate, The Greater Your Risk Of Death By All Causes by Steve Smith.  Medical Daily.  November 23, 2015. 

Coffee And Health: An Overview Of The Science

A Government Panel Said Drinking Coffee Is Harmless.  Why That Might Be Wrong by Peter Whoriskey.  The Washington Post. November 23, 2015. 

Price Competition Between Super Expensive Cholesterol Drugs Results In Exclusive Deal For CVS

CVS Makes Exclusive Deal To Cover Amgen's Cholesterol Drug by Robert Langreth.  Bloomberg Business.  November 23, 2015. 

Development Of Agriculture Changed Human Genetics, Immune System; Genetic Adaptation To Agriculture May Have Increased Risk Of Celia Disease

Farming's In Their DNA:  Ancient Genomes Reveal Natural Selection In Action by Stephanie Dutchen.  Harvard University.  November 23, 2015. 

Intuitive Eating Should Be Balanced by Awareness Of Caloric Intake

The Limits Of 'Intuitive' Eating by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York times.  November 19, 2015. 

Doctors And Marketers Square Off Over Direct-To-Consumer Drug Ads

ANA Squares Off Against AMA Over Drug Advertising by Ana Radelat.  Ad Age.  November 20, 2015. 

California And Oregon Allow Women To Obtain Certain Types Of Birth Control Directly From Pharmacist

States Lead Effort To Let Pharmacists Prescribe Birth Control by Pam Belluck and Sabrina Tavernise. 

Opinion: When The "Best" Doctor May Not Be The Best

Are Good Doctors Bad For Your Health? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.   The New York Times.  November 21, 2015. 

Hope For Obamacare Expansion In Georgia--Perhaps In 2017?

Red-State Reality And Obamacare:  The First Signs Of Truce Negotiations  by Jim Galloway.  The Atlanta Journal Constitution.  November 21, 2015. 

Southwest Georgia Health Summit; Discussion of Medicaid Expansion?

Rural Health Summit Tackles Healthcare In Southwest Georgia by Tosin Fakile.  WFXL.  November 17, 2015. 

Average Annual Cost Of Specialty Drugs Now More Than Exceeds Median U.S. Household Income; Drug Industry Says Report Misleading

Specialty Drugs Now Cost More than The Median Household Income by Carolyn Y. Johnson.  The Washington Post.  November 20, 2015. 

Condom Express Powers University Of Georgia to #3 In Trojan Sexual Health Report Card

The Top Colleges For Sexual Health Resources, As Ranked By Trojan Condoms by Alex Zielinski.  Think Progress.  November 20, 2015. 

Smartphone Web-Based Cognitive Therapy May Help New Doctors Deal With Depression And Suicidal Thoughts

Can A Website Keep Suicidal Thoughts Away?  Study In Stressed Young Doctors Suggest So.  University Of Michigan Health System/Science Daily.  November 19, 2015. 

Same Diet Produces Differing Effects in Different Individuals; "Healthy" Eating May Differ By Individual

'Healthy' Foods Differ By Individual.  Cell Press/Science Daily.  November 19, 2015. 

Yearly Switching Of Health Insurance A Necessity For Many

Shopping For Health Insurance Is New Seasonal Stress For Many by Abby Goodnough.  The New York Times.  November 18, 2015.

Career Satisfaction For Nurses Is Lower Than That Of Physicians; Working Environment Not Uniformly Supportive

Career Regret Stronger Among Nurses Than Physicians by Robert Lowes.  Medscape.  November 18, 2015. 

Cholesterol Drug Rejected By Britain's Health Service Because Of Cost And Lack Of Definitative Link To Actual Reduction Of Heart Attacks

UK Cost Watchdog Turns Down Amgen's New Cholesterol Drug by Ben Hirschler.  Reuters.  November 18, 2015. 

Apps And Gagdets For Stress Reduction--Maybe A Walk Would Be Better (Or Maybe A Massage)

Taking the (Often Imprecise) Measure Of Stress by Karen Weintraub.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2015. 

5 Ways Your Smartphone Can Help Your Health

Five Ways Your Smartphone Can Help Your Health by Jennifer Jolly.  The New York Times.  November 16, 2015. 

Low Premiums Only Par Of The Story; High Deductibles Scare Many Away From Healthcare Exchanges

Many Say High Deductibles Make their Health Law Insurance All But Useless by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  November 14, 2015. 

Two Fields Know For Innovation, Transplantation and Reproductive Medicine, May Soon Combine For Uterus Transplants

Uterus Transplants May Soon Help Some Infertile Women by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2015. 

By Targeting Old Age Instead Of Amyloid, Experimental Alzheimer's Drug Shows Promise In The Lab

Experimental Drug Targeting Alzheimer's  Disease Show Anti-Aging Effects. Medical Xpress.  November 12, 2015. 

Emotionally Supportive Relationships Linked To Lower Testosterone

Emotionally supportive Relationships Linked To Lower Testosterone.  University Of Notre Dame/Science Daily.  November 10, 2015. 

90 Charity Clinics Across Georgia Produce Savings In Emergency Care, Hypertension

Charity Clinics In Georgia Save Money, Study Finds by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  November 11, 2015. 

Class Disparity In Smoking; Smoking Becomes A Problem Of The Poor

U.S. Smoking Rate Declines, but Poor Remain At Higher Risk by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  November 12, 2015. 

Further Analysis Of White Americans Death Rates Between 1999 to 2013 Reveals Significant Changes Among Women

Is The Death Rate Really Increasing For Middle-Aged White Americans? By Andrew Gelman.  Slate.  November 11, 2015. 

FDA To Review Use Of The Term "Natural" On Food Labels

Surprise:  FDA To Review Use Of "Natural" Food Claim by Karlene Lukovitz.  Marketing Daily.  November 11, 2015. 

Obesity Prevention Programs Should Consider The Self Esteem Impacts Of Frequent Weighing On Young women

Frequent Weight Checks Tied To Less Self-Esteem For Young Women

In A First, Cancer-Fighting Drugs Breach The Blood-Brain Barrier

Scientists Breach Brain Barrier To Treat Sick Patient by Michelle Roberts.  BBC.  November 10, 2015. 

Health Care Delivery Is Just A Small Part Of Population Health

Beyond Health Care:  The Role Of Social Determinants In Promoting Health And Health Equity by Harry J. Heiman and Samantha Artiga.  The Kaiser Family Foundation.  November 4, 2015. 

Mercer Physician Assistant Program Receives Grant To Assist Georgia's Medically Underserved Communities

College Of Health Professions Receives $1.1 Million Grant To Train Physician Assistants For Georgia's Medically Underserved Communities.  Mercer News.  October 13, 2015 

Opinion: Seismic Shift In How People Eat--How Big Companies Are Struggling To Keep Up

Opinion:  A Seismic Shift In How People Eat by Hans Taparia and Pamela Koch.  The New York Times.  November 6, 2015

How Doctors Helped Drive The Addiction Crisis

How Doctors Helped Drive The Addiction Crisis by Richard A. Friedman.  The New York Times.  November 7, 2015

Risk/Benefit Tradeoff Changes For Diabetes And Hypertension Treatment Of Older Patients; Less Tight Control Needed

Some Older Patients Are Treated Not Wisely, But Too Much by Paula Span.  New York Times.  November 6, 2015

Travel Nurses Fill Staffing Gaps In Northside Hospital And Throughout Nation

How Travel Nurses Are Filling The Staffing Gap by Kelly Gooch.  Becker Hospital Review.  November 5, 2015. 

March Of Dimes Prematurity Report Card; Georgia Gets A D; Atlanta Gets An F

About 380,000 Babies Are Born Too Soon Each Year.  March Of Dimes.  November 5, 2015. 

Higher Physician Spending Associated With Lower Risk Of Malpractice Suite; Causal Link Uncertain

High-Spending Doctors Less Likely To Be Sued by Andrew M. Seaman.  Reuters.  November 5, 2015. 

Leapfrog Group Ranks Georgia Hospitals For Safety; State Hospitals Move From # 24 to # 10.

More A's:  Georgia Hospitals' Safety Rating Rise by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  November 3, 2015. 

U.S. Healthcare Spending Is The Highest; Results--Not So Much

American Health Care Spending Is Double That Of Most Other Wealthy Nations by Sue Chang.  Market Watch.  November 4, 2015. 

Georgia No. 14 Fattest State In America; No. 3 For Child Obesity

Georgia No. 14 Fattest State In America by Phil W. Hudson. Atlanta Business Chronicle.  November 4, 2015. 

Book Review: Ending Medical Reversals by Vinayak K. Prasad, MD, MPH and Adam S. Cifu, MD

Book Review:  "Ending Medical Reversals" Laments Flip-Flopping.  Abigail Zuger, MD.  The New York Times

Faith Leaders In the U.K. Call For Equality Between Physical And Mental Health Treatment

Faith Leaders Join Call For Equality Between Physical And Mental Health Treatment by Claire Bergin.  Independent Catholic News.  November 2, 2015. 

Mortality Rate For Whites Between 45 And 54 With Less than College Education Has Startling rise

A Group Of Middle-Aged Whites In the U.S. Is dying At A Startling Rate by Lenny Bernstein And Joel Achenbach.  The Washington Post.  November 2, 2015. 

Arbitration In Medicine And Other Fields Remakes The Face Of Justice

In Arbitration, A 'Privatization Of The Justice System' by Jessica Silver-Greenberg And Michael Corkery.  The New York Times.  November 1, 2015. 

Early Life Stress Sensitizes Brain For Stress, Desensitizes For Reward, Leading To Depression

Early Life Stress And Adolescent Depression To Impaired Development Of Reward Circuits.  Elsevier/Science Daily.  October 29, 2015. 

Merger Frenzy In Health Care Continues; ACA, Cheap Capital, Push To Reduce Costs Among Reasons

Health Care Companies In Merger Frenzy by Reed Abelson.  The New York Times.  October 29, 2015. 

Large Legal Settlement For Implantation Of Cardiac Devices In Violation Of Medicare Ruling Affects Athens Hospital

Ga. Hospitals Part Of Settlement On Cardiac Implants by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  October 30, 2015. 

Medical Students Learn "Health Care By The Numbers"

Medical Students Crunch Big Data To Spot Health Trends by Julie Rovner.  NPR.  October 30, 2015. 

Initiative To Explore Microbial Communities Crucial To Health And Every Ecosystem

Scientists Urge National Initiative On Microbiomes by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  October 28, 2015.

No Shortage Of Inflated Language To Describe New Cancer Drugs

What Is The Most Hyped Drug In Cancer?  by Nick Mulcahy.  Medscape.  October 29, 2015. 

Billions Worldwide Have Either Herpes Simplex Virus-Types 1 Or 2

You Likely Have Herpes And You Almost Definitely Don't Know It.  Reuters/VICE News.  October 29, 2015. 

Medical Marijuana In Georgia Faces Legal And Regulatory Hurdles

Legalizing Medical Pot No Simple Matter, Georgia Learns by Aaron Gould Sheinin.  AJC.com.  October 28, 2015 

Oxytocin Nasal Spray Shows Promise In Helping Kids Improve With Social, Emotional And Behavioral Problems

"Love Hormone" Nasal Spray Promising In Autism by Robert Preidt.  WebMD.  October 27, 2015.

State Of Girls Worldwide: Not Great; Someplaces Atricious; But Generally Better Than It Used To Be

Where the Girls Are (And Aren't):  #15Girls by John Poole.  NPR.  October 20, 2015. 

Family Economic Impact Of Cancer Diagnosis: Men More Effected; More Workplace Support For Cancer Victims Suggested

Crunching The Numbers On Cancer's Financial Toll:  On Average, Patients See A 20 Percent Drop In Income Within Two Years by Erin Blakemore.  The Washington Post.  October 27, 2015. 

Simulations Indicates That By The End Of The Century Temperatures In The Persian Gulf Could Hit 165-170; Temperatures Unprecendented In Human History If Trends Continue;

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End by Seth Borenstein.  AP/Huffington Post.  October 26, 2015. 

Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta Has Statewide Impact And 100 Year Heritage Of Service

Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta Impact Felt In Southwest Georgia by Jennifer Parks.  Albany Herald.  October 26, 2015

Cost Of Dementia Far Exceeds Cancer And Heart Disease; Medicare Often will Not Cover Expenses For Dementia

Costs For Dementia Care Far Exceeding Other Diseases, Study Finds by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  October 26, 2015. 

Intersection Of Medication And Surgery Shows Significant Problems; Study Is The First To Systematically Examine Problem

Hospitals Mess Up Medications In Surgery---A Lot by John Tozzi.  BloombergBusiness.  October 25, 2015. 

Medical Procedures Should Be Recorded To Improve Quality And Accountability, Say Experts

Medical Procedures Should Be Recorded To Improve Quality And Accountability, Say Experts.  BMJ/Science Daily.  October 21, 2015. 

"Birth Tourism" Babies Often Present Complex Medical, Social And Financial challnges To Large Metropolitan Children's Hospitals

Birth Tourism In The United States Delivers Complex Medical Cases To Neonatal Units.  American Academy Of Pediatrics/Science Daily.  October 23, 2015. 

3-D Printing With Soft Biological Materials Could One Day Make Heart Transplants Unnecessary

Researchers Hack Off-The-Shelf 3-D Printer Towards Rebuilding The Heart.  Carnegie Mellon University/Science Daily.  October 23, 2015. 

Universal Screening For Childhood Hunger Sought By Pediatrics Academy

Pediatricians Are Asked To Join Fight Against Childhood Hunger by Catherine Saint Louis.  The New York Times.  October 23, 2015. 

HPV Vaccinations May Lag Because Of Physician Practices

Why Doctors May Be To Blame For America's Low HPV Vaccine Rates by Anna Almendrala.  Huffington Post.  October 23, 2015. 

Endocrine Disruptor In Nail Polish Leaching Into The Bodies Of Wearers

These Nail Polish Brands Contain A Chemical That Could Mess With Your Hormones by Julia Lurie.  Mother Jones.  October 19, 2015. 

The Plague Bacterium Over The Ages Illustrates Genetic Evolution As Well As Social, Political, And Economic Impacts

The Plague's Deadly Pedigree Goes Back 3,000 Years Earlier Than Thought by Amina Khan.  The Lost Angeles Times.  October 22, 2015. 

New Mammogram Guidles "More Nuanced, Personalized, A Bit More Complicated" But Hopefully Clearer

How To Make Sense Of The New Mammogram Guidelines:  An Interview With Dr. Richard Wender Of The American Cancer Society.  October 20, 2015. 

95% Of Adults In India Carry Bacteria Resistant To "Last Resort" Antibiotics; Superbug Problem Spreading Worldwide

India's Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Problem Is Spreading by Beenish Ahmed.  Thinkprogress. October 21, 2015. 

Association Made Between Number Of Moles And Risk Of Melanoma

What 11 Moles May Say About Your Skin Cancer Risk by Alexander Raths.  CBS News.  October 19, 2015. 

Not Just In Healthcare--Combination Of Cognitive And Social Skills Required Throughout The Economy

What You Learned In Preschool Is Crucial At Work by Claire Cain Miller.  The New York Times.  October 16, 2015. 

Working While Sick: Half Of Food Workers View Is As A Necessity

Survey:  Half Of Food Workers Go To Work Sick Because They Have To by Lynne Shallcross.  NPR.  October 19, 2015. 

Should Cancer Patients Be Treated With Pro-Oxidants?

Antioxidant Use May Promoted Spread Of Cancer.  UT Southwestern Medical Center/Science Daily.  October 14, 2015. 

Hospital Hiring Of Community Doctors Presents Ethical Challenges For Physicians, Patients, And Society

Whistleblower Doctor Warns About Hospitals Hiring Physicians by Jay Hancock.  Kaiser Health News.  October 7, 2015. 

No Hospital Guaranteed To Survive Says Middle Georgia Hospital Executive

Houston Healthcare CEO Says Hospitals Face Big Issues by Wayne Crenshaw.  The Macon Telegraph.  October 15, 2015. 

ResearchKit, Apple Watch, IPhone Combine Against Autism, Epilepsy, And Melanoma

Apple Partners With Hospitals For New ResearchKit Studies on Autism, Epilepsy And Melanoma by AppleInsider Staff.  October 15, 2015.

Binge Drinking Costs The U.S. $249 Billion In 2010

Excessive Drinking Is Draining America's Economy By Ashley Welch.  CBS News.  October 16 2015

Following Nature's Temperature Rhythms May Be A Key To Sleep, A Study Of Hunter-Gathers Finds

Up Late?  Looks Like Our Paleo Ancestors Didn't Sleep Much Either by Angus Chen.  NPR. October 15, 2015. 

Supplement Use Leads 23,000 People, Including Children, To the Emergency Room Each Year; Natural Does Not Necessarily Mean Safe

"Health" Supplements Send 23, 000 To Emergency Rooms In The U.S. Each Year by Gene Emery.  Reuters.  October 15, 2015. 

Physicians Seek To Define Role Of Retail Clinics

Retail Clinics Best Used As Backup To A Patient's Primary Care Physician.  Medical Xpress.  October 13, 2015. 

Clamatous Famine Eradicated In The Last 50 Years; More Work Need On Conflict Resolution And Restriction On Humanitarian Action

Global Hunger:  Calamitous Famine Eradicated In Last 50 Years by Michelle Faul.  The Washington Post.  October 12, 2015. 

JAMA Article: Tighter Rules Perhaps Need To Prevent Physicians From Disclosing Nonpublic Information To Investors

Physician Insider Trading Cases Suggest Tighter Rules by Lisa Rapaport.  Reuters.  October 12, 2015. 

Patient Role In Preventing Diagnostic Errors: Resources And Roles

Leslie Michelson's Checklist For Avoiding Diagnostic Errors--The KHN Conversation by Julie Appleby

Medical Training In The Midst Of The Biggest Changes Since 1910

A Different Kind Of Care Package by Carolyn Y. Johnson.  The Washington Post. October 8, 2015. 

Study: Softness Of Another Person's Skin Is Consistently Overestimated; Social Bonds Through Touch Are Thus Encouraged

When It Comes To Touch, To Give Is To Receive.  Cell Press/Science Daily.  September 10, 2015. 

Smoking Set To Kill One In Three Young Men In China Unless Many Quit

Smoking Set To Kill One In Three Young Men In China.  The Lancet/Science Daily.  October 8, 2015. 

Nursing Excellence Associated with Patient Satisfaction Measures

Magnet Hospitals Better Patient Experiences May Positively Enhance Reimbursement.  New York University/Science Daily.  October 9, 2015. 

Presenting A Menu Of Treatment Options to Patients--Good For Patients and Physicians

Presenting Options To Patients:  Menu Approach Good For Patients, Physicians.  Indiana University/Science Daily.  October 8, 2015. 

Where Do People Want To Die?

Experts Weight In:  Where Do People Want To Die?  by Joyce Frieden And Roger Sergel.  MedPage Today. 

Body Awareness May Change Brains And Help People Become Resilent To Stress

Does Mindfulness Make For A Better Athlete?  by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  September 30, 2015. 

Congressional Hearing On Nutritional Guidelines Shows Impact Of Economic Interests, Distrust Of Science, Politics

How Agriculture Controls Nutrition Guidelines by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  October 8, 2015. 

Risk Of Self Harm May Rise Following Bariatric Surgery

Risk Of Self Harm May Rise Following Bariatric Surgery by Sara G. Miller/LiveScience/Scientific American.  October 8, 2015. 

Sexually Active Women's Immune Systems Found To Be Preparing For Pregnancy; Could Have Implications For Immune Disorders

IU Study:  Sexual Activity Causes Immune System Changes that Increase Chances Of Conception.  Indiana University.  October 5, 2015.

Unemployed And Minorities Spend More Time Traveling And Waiting For Care

Race And Employment Tied To U.S. Clinic Wait Times by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters/Yahoo News.  October 5, 2015. 

Colleges Confront Issues Raised By Students' Need For 'Comfort Animals' To Deal With Stress

Campuses Debate Rising Demand For 'Comfort Animals' by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  October 4, 2015. 

New Trans-Pacfic Partnership Agreement Has Profound Implications For Healthcare And Public Health

Opinion:  The Trans-Pacific Partnership Charade:  TPP Isn't About 'Free' Trade At All by Joseph E. Stiglitz And Adam S.Hersh.  MarketWatch.  October 5, 2015. 

Single Largest change In The American diet In the Last Decade: Decline Of 'Big Soda'

The Decline Of 'Big Soda' by Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  October 4, 2015. 

Buying Existing Drugs And Raising Prices Aggressively Squeezes Healthcare Providers, Insurers, And Patients

Valeant's Drug Price Strategy enriches It, But Infuriates Patients And Lawmakers by Andrew Pollack And Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  October 4, 2015. 

Study Offers Insight Into How Investment Opportunities May Differ From Healthcare System Needs

Investors Are Indifferent To The Technology Needs Of Healthcare Systems, Study Suggests.  Universite de Montreal/Science Daily.  October 1, 2015.

Insured People Skimping On Dental Care Because Of Cost

People With Insurance Often Still Have Unmet Dental Needs, Survey Finds by Michelle Andrews.  October 2, 2015. 

Toxic Environmental Chemicals Viewed As Threat To Healthy Human Reproduction

International Specialists Warn Of Global Toll From Chemical Exposures by Jose Aguayo. EWG.  October 2, 2015. 

New Sequencing Approach Believed to Be Able To Detect All Infective Viruses At Once

Detecting All Invective Viruses At Once.  Genetic Engineering News.  Sept 30, 2015. 

Antiretroviral Triple Therapy And Prophylaxis Recommended By W.H.O For Confronting H.I.V; Costs For These Recommendations Could Be Staggering

Millions More Need H.I.V. Treatment, W.H.O Says by Donald G. McNeil. Jr.  The New York Times.  September 30, 2015. 

Understated Deaths From Police Chases Could Number In The Thousands

Feds Fail To Track Deadly Police Pursuits by Thomas Frank.  USA Today.  September 29, 2015.

Possible Surgical Treatment For The Most Severe Type Of Macular Degeneration Shows Some Promise

Age-Related Blindness Cure Steps Closer With New Stem Cell Trial by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  September 29, 2015. 

Topol: Tech Will Transform Doctors' Role Into More Consulting Role

Tech Options Helping Patients Wrest Control From Doctors by Michelle Andrews.  Kaiser Health News.  September 22, 2015. 

Study: Cancer Treatment In Last Two Trimesters Shows No Impact On Children's Normal Cognitive And Cardiac Function

Study Offers Support For Cancer Treatment During Pregnancy by Catherine Saint Louis.  The New York Times.  September 28, 2015. 

Better Targeting Of Genes Influencing Protein Production May Be The Result Of Large UK COPD Study

First UK Biobank Genetic Study Reveals New Links Between Lung Disease And Smoking Behavior.  Medical Xpress.  September 28, 2015. 

Teamwork And Patient Involvement Viewed As Key To Reducing Diagnostic Errors

IOM:  Teamwork Key To Reducing Medical Diagnostic Errors by Julie Appleby.  Kaiser Health News.  September 22, 2015. 

Access To Surgery Often Ignored In Fight Against Global Poverty

How Surgery Can Fight Global Poverty by Mark G. Shrime and John G. Meara.  The New York Times.  September 25, 2015. 

Not All Fruits And Vegetables Are Equal In Promoting Weight Loss

When It Comes To Controlling Weight, Not All Fruits And Vegetables Are Created Equal by Melissa Healy.  Los Angeles Times.  September 22, 2015. 

3 Percent Of Pregnant Women Admit To Binge Drinking

10 Percent Of U.S. Women Drink During Pregnancy by Dennis Thompson.  U.S. News.  September 24, 2015. 

Drug Prices Debated: Diverse Advocates Present Their Views

Should The Government Impose Drug Price Controls?  The New York Times.  September 23, 2015. 

Sequencing All Protein-making Genes Made Available At Historic Low price

Craig Venter's Company In Deal For Whole Exome Tests At New Low Cost by Julie Steenhuysen.  Reuters.  September 22, 2015. 

Toxic Stress, Traumatic Childhood Events Increasingly the Focus Of Physicians

Stemming The Cycle Of Toxic Stress-For The Kids' Sake by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  September 23, 2015. 

At Least One Diagnostic Error In A Lifetime; Misdiagnoses Leading To Harm May Be Up To 160,000

Most Americans Will Experience At Least 1 Diagnostic Error:  Report by E. J. Mundell.  U. S. News.  September 22, 2015. 

Millennials, Gen Y Have To Eat Less And Exercise More Than Their Parents To Avoid Obesity

Millennials, Gen Y Need To Eat Less, Work Out More To Stave Off Obesity, Researchers Say.  York University/Science Daily.  September 21, 2015. 

F.D.A. Use Of The Term "Breakthrough" Drug Has A Specific Meaning Which May Lead To Confusion

"Breakthrough" Drug May Not Mean What You Think by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  September 21, 2015. 

Diet, Not Pills, May Still Be The Best Bet For Brain Power

Diet, Not Pills, May Still Be the Best Bet For Brain Power by Kim Painter.  USA TODAY.  September 20, 2015. 

Huge Overnight Increases In Drug Prices Said To Result From Shortages Or Shifts Of Old Drugs To Speciality Drugs

Huge Overnight Increase In A Drug's Price Raises Protests by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  September 20, 2015. 

Caregiving As Well As Women and Men Are Victims Of Hypercompetitive, Outdated Workplaces

A Toxic Work World by Anne-Marie Slaughter. The New York Times.   September 18, 2015. 

Injuries And Sprain To The Ankle, The Base Of The Body, May Have Lifelong Consequences For Movement And Balance

A Sprained Ankle May Have Lifelong Consequences by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  September 16, 2015. 

Selling Insurance Across State Lines Faces Obstacles In Setting Up National Provider Network

The Problem With G.O.P. Plans To Sell Health Insurance Across State Lines by Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  August 31, 2015. 

Diverging Interpretations Of Study Of Antidepressant Paxil Reaches Opposite Conclusions; Multiple Interpretations Of Data Is New Trend In Scientific Publishing

Antidepressant Paxil Is Unsafe For Teenagers, New Analysis Says by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  September 16, 2015. 

Republican Debate Highlighted Views On Vaccines At Variance With Medical Consensus

Vaccine Issue Arises At Republican Debate, To Doctors' Dismay by Sabrina Tavernise and Catherine Saint Louis.  The New York Times.  September 17, 2015. 

Large Study Shows A Link Between Slow Resting Heart Rate And Antisocial Behavior, Crime, And Accidents

The Biology Of Crime:  Low Heart Rate May Predict Criminal Behavior, Study Says by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles Times.  September 9 2015. 

Extreme Old Smokers Found to Have Gene That Increase Cellular Maintenance And Repair

Secrets Of Longevity May Lie In Long-Lived Smokers, A 'Biologically Distinct' Group with Extraordinary Gene Variants by Ariana Eunjung Cha. 

Time Outdoors Seems Linked To Decreased Risk Of Myopia

The World's Myopia Crisis And Why Children Should Spend More Times Outdoors by Ariana Eunjung Cha

The States Where Women Are Most Likely To Be Murdered By Men

The States Where Women Are Most Likely To Be Murdered By Men by Melissa Jeltsen.  The Huffington Post.  September 15, 2015.

Chamber of Commerce Survey Outlines $1 Billion Impact Of North Georgia Medical Center

Survey Shows Growth In Local Health Care Industry by Joshua Silavent.  Gainesville Times.  September 14, 2015. 

The Real Face Of Malnutrition, Extreme Deprivation And Obesity, Impacts One In Three Of The World's Population

Despite Fall In Hunger, Obesity And Diabetes Worsen Around The Globe:  Report by Chris Arsenault

Duke Tops Rankings Of Best Physician Assistant Program; Emory #3

Physician Assistant Ranked In 2015.  U.S. News.  September 11, 2015. 

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Helps Older Patients And Hospitals Recover Revenue From Decline In Bypass Surgery

New Hope Beats For Heart Patients And Hospitals by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  September 11, 2015. 

Massive Revision Of Medical Codes Will Have Significant Impact For Patients And Physicians

One Symptom In New Medical Codes:  Doctor Anxiety by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  September 13, 2015. 

California Legislature Passes Bill That Could Triple Access To Doctor-Assisted Suicides Across The Country

California Legislature Approves Assisted Suicide by Ian Lovett.  The New York Times.  September 11, 2015. 

Treatment Goals For High Blood Pressure Subject To Controversy; Lack Of Scientific Effectiveness Study is Cited

Blood Pressure, The Mystery Number by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  June 22, 2015. 

LED Lighting Revolution Could Better Align Body And Solar Cycle, Bring Health And Performance Benefits

High-Tech Lights To Help Baby Sleep, Or Students Stay Alert by Diane Cardwell.  The New York Times.  September 11, 2015. 

Hoping To Extend 25% Drop In Highway Deaths From 2004, 10 Automakers Agree To Install Automatic Braking Systems

Automakers Will Make Automatic Braking Systems Standard In New Cars by Bill Vlasic.  The New York Times.  September 11, 2015. 

The Secret World Of Women Surgeons

The Secret World Of Women Surgeons You Had No Idea Existed by Niamey Wilson.  Huffingtonpost.com.  September 10, 2015.

The Prescription Is Walking

9 Reasons To Try This Surgeon-General Recommended Exercise by Anna Almedrala.  Huffington Post.  September 10, 2015. 

Possibility Of Human-To-Human Transmission Of Misfolded Proteins That Underlie Alzheimer's; More Research Needed On Exposure To Amyloid-Beta Seeds

Evidence For Person-To-Person Transmission Of Alzheimer's Pathology by Diana Kwon.  Scientific American.  September 9, 2015. 

Protein That Causes Age-Related Muscle Weakness And Loss Identified; Apple Peel And Green Tomatoes Could Block It

Naturally Occurring Compounds Could Block Protein Behind Age-Related Muscle Loss by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  September 9, 2015. 

Physician Assistants and Patient Satisfaction: How Do They Contrbute

How PAs Factor IntoImproved CMS Patient Satisfaction Scores by Dawn Morton-Rias.  Health Affairs.  September 2, 2015. 

Southwest Georgia Takes Steps To Attract Young Physicians

Medical Education Efforts Remaining Strong In Southwest Georgia by Jennifer Parks.  Albany Herald.  September 5, 2015. 

Physicians Come To Recognize A Stress Heart Attack, Takotsubo Cardiomypathy

"Stress" Cardiomyopathy:  A Different Kind Of Heart Attack by Deepak Bhatt, MD.  Harvard Heart Letter.  September 3, 2015. 

Stress At Work Is Just As Bad As Secondhand Smoke

Stress At Work Is Just As Bad As Secondhand Smoke by Elizabeth Cohen.  CNN.  September 3, 2015. 

Health Consequences Of Any Mass Deportation Of Immigrants Addressed by American College Of Physicians

Thousands Of Doctors Are Protesting Trump's Plan For Mass Deportation, Say It will Make America Sick by Esther Yu-Hsi.  Thinkprogress.  September 4, 2015. 

Double-Mastectomy Rate Rises In Men; More Research Needed On Risk Factors, Caution On Surgery

Double-Mastecomy Rate Rises In Men by Charles Bankhead.  Medpage Today.  September 2, 2015. 

Proposed Rule Banning Discrimination Based Upon Gender Identity Proposed By Obama Administration

Obama Defends Health Rights For Transgender Americans by Kimberly Leonard.  U.S. News.  September 3, 2015. 

New Views Of Aging And New Cancer Drugs Change Treatments For Elderly

Carter's Cancer Fight Reflects Change In Treatment Of Elderly by Stacey Burling.  Philadelphia Inquirer.  August 26, 2015. 

Stethoscope Gets And Update Via IPhone

Take A Deep Breath, Then Check Your Smartphone by Steve Lohr.  The New York Times.  September 2, 2015. 

Determining Heart Age (Versus Chronological Age) Found To Motivate Patient Improvement

Your Heart Is Probably Much Older Than You Think, The CDC Warns by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles Times.  September 1, 2015. 

Daily Marijuana Use Surpasses Daily Cigarette Smoking Among College Students

Daily Marijuana Use Among U.S. College Students Highest Since 1980.  Monitoring the Future/University of Michigan.  September 1, 2015. 

Salesforce Healthcare Cloud Seeks To Address Tech Interoperability Challenge

Salesforce Wants To Revolutionize Your Healthcare Experience by Laura Lorenzetti.  Fortune.  September 2, 2015. 

New Cholesterol Drug Available In Europe For 50-60% of U.S. Price; Role Of Government Is Key

Europe Gets Amgen Cholesterol Drug For 50-60 Pct Of U.S. Price by Ben Hirschler.  Reuters.  September 1, 2015. 

Less Than 6 Hours Sleep: 4x More Likely To Get A Cold; Sleep And Immune System Linked

Getting Less Than 6 Hours Of Sleep Makes You 4x More Likely To Get A Cold by Lena H. Sun.  Washington Post.  August 31, 2015. 

Hunger Must Be Considered For Longterm Weight Loss; Caloric Deprivation May NOT Be The Key

Diet Advice That Ignores Hunger by Gary Taubes.  The New York Times.  August 29, 2015. 

Oliver Sacks: Explored, Bore Witness Through Case Studies To Brain Marvels And Misfunctions

Oliver Sacks Dies At 82; Neurologist And Author Explored The Brain's Quirks by Gregory Cowles.  The New York Times

Hospitals Continue To Seek Partners Throughout Georgia; US May Have Only 150 Or Less Health Systems, Georgia 3-5

Georgia Regents Health System, University Hospital Talk Of Need For partnerships by Tom Corwin.  The Augusta Chronicle.  August 27, 2015. 

Probiotics Seem To Produce Gut Microbes That Curb Inflammation And Obesity

Probiotics Could Help Curb Inflammation, Obesity.  RelaxNews/CTV News.  August 29, 2015. 

Improvement In School Nutrition: More Vegetables, Fruits, Whole Grains;

CDC Gives Schools Good Grades For Nutrition, But Asks:  Where Are the Salad Bars? by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles Times.  August 27, 2015. 

Overthinking The Root Of Neuroticism And Depression?

Could Neuroticism Stem  From Overthinking?  by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  August 28, 2015. 

Virginia Shooting Spotlights Riddle Of Workplace Safety

Virginia Shooting Spotlights Riddle Of Workplace Safety by Erik Eckholm and Richard A. Oppel Jr.  August 27, 2015.

Treatment Guidelines Conflict With Funding; Medicaid And Hepatitis C

White House Is Pressed To Help Widen Access To Hepatitis C Drugs Via Medicaid by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  August 25, 2015. 

Long Island Hospital Posts Doctor Ratings Online

Long Island Hospital Posts Doctor Ratings by Corinne Ramey.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 26, 2015. 

Second Opinion Services Increasingly Provide Second Set Of Eyes For Medical Diagnosis

New Ways For Patients To Get A Second Opinion by Sumathi Reddy.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 24, 2015. 

The Startups That Give You A Second Opinion On Costly Surgery by John Tozzi.  Bloomberg Business.  August 20, 2015.  

Children's Healthcare Of Atlanta Creates Clinically Integrated Network Containing 1100 Pediatricans; Aims For Data-Driven Quality Improvements

Pediatricians, Facing New Realities Form Network by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  August 24, 2015. 

Weight-Loss Programs May Benefit From Partnering With Primary Care Physicians

Helpful Physicians May Be Key To Successful Weight Loss by James McIntosh.  Medical News Today.  August 24, 2015. 

First Step Toward Universal Flu Vaccine Involves Getting Immune System To Recognize Stem Of Influenza

Scientists Get One Step Closer To A Universal Flu Vaccine by Sarah Zhang.  Wired.  August 24, 2015. 

Underrepresentation And Concentration Of Women And Blacks And Hispanics In Medical Specialities; Only 14% Of Trainees In Orthopedics Are Women

Women, Minorities Still Underrepresented In Medical Specialties by Megan Brook.  Reuters.  August 24, 2015. 

In 2016, Georgia Institutes Continuing Competency Requirements For Nurses

Nurses' Competency:  Will New Program Verify It Better?  by Judi Kanne.  Georgia Health News.  August 3, 2015. 

Pedestrian Accidents--Poverty, Sidewalks, Vehicle Speed, Infrastructure Favoring Cars Over People: The Case Of Bibb County

Poverty, Intoxication, Roads That Favor Drivers Prove A Dangerous Mix by Jane Hammond.  Center For Collaborative Journalism/Macon Telegraph. 

9 Factors Could Be Associated With Lower Alzheimer's Risk

9 Factors You Can Control May Be Key To Alzheimer's Risk by Alan Mozes.  HealthDay/Philly.Com.  August 20, 2015. 

President Jimmy Carter To Receive New Drug That "Decloaks" Cancer From Immune System Attack

Carter To Get Radiation, New Immune Therapy For Skin Cancer by Marilynn Marchione.  Seattle PI/Associated Press.  August 20, 2015. 

First Study Of Its Kind Shows Impact Of Longer Hours On The Job On Stroke And Coronary Heart Disease Risk

Stroke Rounds:  Long Work Hours, Stroke And CHD Risk Associated by Salynn Boyles.  Medpage Today.  August 20, 2015. 

Teen Health Provides Predictor Of Adult Health; Teens Often Do Not Perceive Significance Of Their Conditions

Bad Health Outcomes For Adults Who Don't Get Help As Teens by Lisa Gillespie.  Kaiser Health News.  August 17, 2015. 

St Mary's Hospital Uses A Form Of Ultraviolet Light Blocked By Ozone Layer To Prevent Infections

UV System Helps St. Mary's Protect Patients Against Infection.  Online Athens.  August 16, 2015. 

Heroin Epidemic Treated As Public Health And Public Safety Problems In Obama Strategy

The Obama Administration's Strategy On Heroin Addiction :  Treat It As A Public Health Problem.  Think Progress. August 17, 2015. 

What's Behind The Declining Effectiveness And Efficiency Of Medical Research

Spending More On U.S. Medical Research Hasn't Led To New Cures What's Going Wrong by Sam P.K.Collins.  Thinkprogress. August 18, 2015

States, Including Georgia, Take Steps To Address Residency Bottleneck

To Address Doctor Shortages, Some States Focus On Residencies by Rebecca Beitsch.  Stateline/Kaiser Health News.  August 12, 2015. 

Sleep Becoming Increasing Focus In Effort To Institute Patient Centered Care

For Hospitals, Sleep And Patient Satisfaction May Go Hand In Hand by Shefali Luthra.  Kaiser Health News.  August 17, 2015. 

Neuroprotective Brain Mechanism May Have Implications For Glaucoma, Parkinson's, And Alzheimer's

Can Your Brain Control How It loses Control?  Association For Research In Vision And Opthalmology.  August 14, 2015. 

New Incentive Approach To Drunk Driving: Target Drinking, Not Driving While Drinking, With Modest Immediate Penalties

A Simple Fix For Drunken Driving by Keith Humphreys.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 14, 2015.

Molecular Underpinnings Of Fear, Anxiety, Cognitive Decline May Have Been Identified In Mouse Study

'Brainy' Mice Raise Hope Of Better Treatments For Cognitive Disorders.  University of Leeds/Medical Xpress.  August 14, 2015. 

Music May Help Recovery After Surgery; Some Association With Reduction In Pain And The Use Of Painkillers

Your Favorite Music May Boost Post-Op Recovery by Robert Preidt.  Web MD.  August 12, 2015. 

New Synthetic Drug Ravages Several Southern States; New Drugs Often Not On Controlled Substances List

Potent New Stimulant Flakka Ravages Florida by Arian Campo-Flores.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 12, 2015. 

Global Population Could Reach 11 Billion by 2100; African Could Be At 5.6 Billion By Then

Global Population Soars Toward 11 Billion by 2100.  Can Earth Support Growth?  by Sara Aridi.  Christian Science Monitor.  August 12, 2015. 

A Case Study In The Deployment Of The Tools Of Public Health: No Polio Cases In Africa For A Year

A Milestone In Africa:  No Polio Cases In A Year by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  August 11, 2015. 

New Firms Put High-Tech Trend On Old-Fashioned Housecall; Healthcare Uberized

Startups Vie To Build An Uber For Health Care by Melinda Beck.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 11, 2015. 

UAB-Birmingham Study Points To The Killer Southern Diet

What A Southern Diet Actually Is And Three Ways It's Killing You by Brittany Smith.  Men's Fitness. 

Effectiveness Of Hospital Cleaning Practices Not Firmly Established By Research; While further Research Need UV Light And Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor Show Promise

Evidence Spotty For Hospital Cleaning Practices by Hanneke Weitering.  MedPage Today.  August 11, 2015. 

Pharmacy Benefit Manger CVS Concerned That New Heart Disease Guidelines Don't Provide The Clarity Need To Avert Runaway Costs

Pharmacy Benefit Manager CVS Urges Rewrite For U.S. Heart Guidelines by Deena Beasley And Ransdell Pierson.  Reuters.  August 10, 2015. 

Health Care Identity Theft Affects 2.3 Million Adult Patients; Often Victims Can't Examine their Own Medical Record

How Identity Theft Sticks You With Hospital Bills by Stephanie Armour.  The Wall Street Journal.  August 7, 2015. 

Effective Infection Control Said To Require Coordination Between Health Facilities

Lack Of Cooperation Among Health Facilities Mars Antibiotic Resistance Fight CDC Says by Jordan Rau.  Kaiser Health News.  August 4, 2015. 

Hospitals Partner With Toyota To Streamline Processes

Hospitals Seeking An Edge Turn To Unlikely Adviser:  A Car Maker by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  August 5, 2015. 

Consumer Reports Rates Atlanta Hospitals On Avoiding Infections

Hospital Ratings:  Avoiding Infections.  Consumer Reports. 

Stress Undermines Diets By Amping Up Reward Circuits In Brain And Dialing Down Those For Self Control

Stress May Sabotage Diets By Short-Circuiting Self-Control by Kathryn Doyle.  Reuters.  August 5, 2015. 

Infant Mortality In The United States In Triple the Rate Of Japan Or Norway; Racial Disparaties; South Has Highest Rates

U.S. Infant Mortality Rate Stays High, Report Finds by Maggie Fox.  NBC News.  August 6, 2015. 

Americans Are Cutting Calories But Half Of Their Calories Are From The Wrong Foods

Americans Are Cutting Calories But Far From Eating Healthy by Carina Storrs.  CNN.  July 30, 2015. 

IBM's Watson Bringing Analytics To The Largest Data Set In Health Care--Images

IBM Adds Medical Images To Watson, Buying Merge Healthcare For $1 Billion by Steve Lohr. 

Walking Versus Running: Benefits Versus Risks

Should You Walk Or Run For Exercise?  Here's What The Science Says by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  August 4, 2015. 

Printed Pills To Model Hearts: How 3-D Pringint Is Changing Health

Printed Pills To Model Hearts:  How 3-D Printing Is Changing Health by Gillian Homney.  ABC News

Urine Biomarkers For Early-Stage Pancreatic Cancer Identified; Perhaps Key To Survival For A Disease With Few Specific Symtoms

Urine Test For Early Stage Pancreatic Cancer Possible After Biomarker Discovery by Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund/Medicalxpress.  August 3, 2015. 

Photoacoustic Imaging May Surpass MRI Or PET For Study Of Brain

A Scientist Deploys Light And Sound To Reveal The Brain by Jon Hamilton.  NPR.  July 27, 2015. 

Study Of Mental Illness After Nuclear Accidents Shows The Importance Of Accurately Communicating Risk Information

Modern Nuclear Disasters:  Biggest Risk Is Mental, Not Physical Illness by Markus MacGill.  Medical News Today. 

OB Hospitalists A Growing Trend; On-Staff Doctors May Deliver For Private Practice Obstetricians

Big Push:  Hospitals Turn To 'Laborists' For Safer Deliveries by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News.  July 29, 2015. 

Pioneer In A New Era In Medicine With Groundbreaking Work In Gynecologic Surgery, Sex Change, And In Vitro Fertilization

Howard W. Jones Jr., A Pioneer Of Reproductive Medicine, Dies At 104 by Randi Hutter Epstein.  The New York Times.  July 31, 2015. 

Signals Between Brain And Spinal Cord Reawakened With Electrical Stimulation; Transcutaneous

Paralyzed Patients Move Again With New, Non-Surgical Stimulation by Bianca Seidman.  CBS News.  July 31, 2015. 

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. 

Obamacare's Next 5 Hurdles To Clear

Obamacare's Next 5 Hurdles To Clear.  Kaiser Health News.  June 26, 2015. 

Issues On The Healthcare Policy Horizon After Obamacare Decision

High Court Ruling Offers Chance To Alter Health Law Debate.  The Associated Press/New York Times.  June 29, 2015. 

Virtual Reality To Rehabilitate Stroke Patients, Treat PTSD, And Train Dental Students

6 Innovative Uses For Virtual Reality by Jessica Hullinger.  The Week.  June 28, 2015. 

65,000 Heatstroke Patients Treated Since June 20 in Devastating Pakistan Heatwave

Weeklong Heat Wave In Southern Pakistan Kills 1,233 People.  Associated Press/NY Times.  June 27 2015. 

Gay Marriage Ruling May Lead To Better Mental And Physical Health

Gay Marriage Will Lead To Better Health, Doctors Say by Cameron Scott.  HealthlineNews.  June 27, 2015. 

Diet Guideline Recommendations Do Not Limit Total Fat; Limits Said To Produce Unhealthy Substitutions

Dietary Guidelines For Americans Shouldn't Place Limits On Total Fat Intake.  Tufts University/Science Daily.  June 23, 2015. 

13% of HIV-Positive Americans Don't Realize They Are Infected

CDC:  More Than 1 In 8 Americans Infected With HIV Don't Know It by Karen Kaplan.  The Los Angeles Times.  June 28, 2015.

Georgia Politicians React To Supreme Court Decision Upholding Obamacare Subsidies: Republican Rage; Democrats Praise

From A 'Disaster' To Landmark Victory, Georgia Politicians React To Obamacare Ruling by Greg Bluestein and Daniel Malloy.   Atlanta Journal Constitution.  June 25, 2015. 

Obamacare Subsidies Upheld; Future Administrations Likely Prevented From Reversing Decision Via Regulation

High Court Upholds Health Law Subsidies by Jay Hancock.  Kaiser Health News.  June 25, 2015. 

Understanding The Molecular Components Of Fertization May Lead To Male Contraceptive

UVA Fertilization Discovery May Lead To Male Contraceptive.  Medical XPress.  June 23, 2015. 

Republicans Push Against Consideration Of Environment In Dietary Guidelines

Republicans Push Back Against Proposed Dietary Guidelines  by Mary Clare Jalonick And Lauran Neergaard

Small Study Suggests That Simulated Enivorments Created Thru Virtual Reality Could Help Treat Alcoholism

Could "Virtual Reality" Treat Alcoholism.  Medical Xpress.  June 24, 2015.

Mental Health Effects Of Climate Change Highlighted In Lancet Report

The Hidden Mental Health Impacts Of Climate Change by Marlene Cimons.  Think Progress. June 23, 2015. 

Public Health Impacts Of Climate Change Explored In New Report

Risk Of Extreme Weather From Climate Change To Rise Over The Next Century, Report Says by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  June 22, 2015. 

For the First Time Obese Americans Outnumber Those Who Are Overweight; Two-Thirds Of Adults Are At An Unhealthy Weight

America's Getting Even Fatter:  Startling Growth In Obesity Over Past 20 Years by Ariana Eunjung Cha.  The Washington Post.  June 22, 2015. 

Incivility In The Workplace A Health, Productivity, Creativity And Happiness Problem

No Time to Be Nice At Work by Christine Porath.  Sunday Review/The New York Times.  June 19, 2015. 

Unused Embryos, Created Embryos Pose Medical, Ethical, And Legal Issues

Industry's Growth Leads To Leftover Embryos, And Painful Choices by Tamar Lewin.  The New York Times.  June 17, 2015.

Sixth Mass Extinction Underway; 41 Percent Of Amphibians, 26 Percent Of Mammals, Humans Threatened

Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here:  Humanity's Existence Threatened.  Stanford University/Science Daily.  June 19, 2015. 

Stem Cell Exosomes Found To Augment Self-Repair and Self-Healing Capabilities Of The Heart

Stem Cell Exosomes Used To Induce Damaged Mouse Hearts To Self-Repair.  Temple University Health System/Science Daily.  June 18, 2015. 

Unintended Pregnancies, About Half Of All Pregnancies, Reduced Dramatically By Counseling Young Women On LARC's

Accidental Pregnancies 'Dramatically Reduced' By IUD And Implant Counseling by David McNamee.  Medical News Today.  June 18, 2015. 

Key Trend: 59.5 Million Displaced People, Half Children Strain Institutions Including Healthcare

60 Million People Fleeing Chaotic Lands, U.N. Says by Somini Sengupta.  The New York Times.  June 18, 2015.  http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/world/60-million-people-fleeing-chaotic-lands-un-says.html?hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

New App Tells Illnesses Nearby Or In Local Area

This New App Can Tell You If The Poeple Around You Are Sick by Rupali Srivastava.  Think Progress.  June 17, 2015. 

Breast Cancer/DDT Link Illustrates Potential Long Term Impact Of Pesticides

Pesticide Used Decades Ago And Breast Cancer Risk by Kathleen Doheny.  WebMD.  June 16, 2015. 

Abortion Rate Decline Seems Linked To Contraception Availability

The Abortion Rate Is Falling Because Fewer Women Are Getting Pregnant by Amelia Thomson-Deveaux.  FiveThirtyEight.  June 12, 2015. 

Tips For Medical Students Who Get Lightheaded At The Sight Of Blood

How To Get Over Being Squeamish At The Sight Of Blood by Heidi Mitchell.  The Wall Street Journal.  June 15, 2015.

Dekalb, Fulton, and Clayton Counties Among Top Counties Nationally For New HIV diagnosis

Metro Atlanta At The Center Of A Burgeoning HIV Crisis by Malthri Vangala.  Georgia Health News.  June 12, 2015. 

Sports And Health In America

Sports And Health In America by NPR, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard T. H. Chan School Of Public Health. 

American Thoracic Society Develop Sleep Guideliness For Differing Age Groups And For Public Health

Healthy Sleep:  Top Doctors Draw Up List Of Recommendations by Markus MacGill.  Medical News Today.  June 15, 2015. 

Understanding Measurement Issues And The True Significance Of Averages Creates New Perspective On So-called "Female Viagara"

The True Significance Of Fibanserin's 'Modest' Boost On Female Sexual Desire by David Kroll.  Forbes.   June 14, 2015. 

Mobile App Matches Cardiac Arrest Victims With Nearby People With CPR Training

Mobile App Helps Save Cardiac Arrest Victims by Bianca Seidman.  CBS News.  June 13, 2015. 

While There Are Still Approximately 9 Million Underage Drinkers, Underaged Drinking Dropped 21%

Underage Drinking, Binge Boozing By Minors Is On The Decline by Tyler Pager.  USA Today.  June 11, 2015. 

Successful Rape Prevention Program Viewed As One Part Of Total Solution

College Rape Prevention Program Proves A Rare Success by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  June 10, 2015. 

Leaked Portion Of Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Accord Has Potential Implications For Control Of Drug Prices

U.S. Shifts Stance On Drug Pricing In Pacific Trade Pact Talks, Document Reveals by Jonathan Weisman.  June 10, 2015. 

Nuts Reduce Risk Of Mortality From Not Just Heart Disease But Also Cancer, Stroke, Respiratory, And Brain Disease

Nuts May Reduce Risk Of Death From Any Cause, Study Finds by Alice G. Walton.  Forbes.  June 11, 2015. 

F.D.A. Panel Recommends Approval Of LDL Chloesterol Lowering Drug Which Mimics Mutations In PCSK9 Gene

Federal Panel Recommends Approving New Cholesterol Drug by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  June 9, 2015. 

Growing List Of Tick-Borne Illnesses

Beyond Lyme Disease, Research Highlights Growing List Of Tick Borne Illnesses.  The Associated Press/CBC.  June 9, 2015. 

Hospital Consolidation Trend Impacts Local Area

St. Mary's Health Care Purchases Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center by Carla Caldwell.  Atlanta Business Chronicle.  June 8, 2015. 

Some Uninsured Hospital Patients Are Charged More Than 10 Times The Actual Cost Of Patient Care

Some Hospitals Are Getting Away With 'Price-Gouging' Patients, Study Finds by Lena H. Sun.  The Washington Post. June 8, 2015. 

People Living Longer, Are Less Healthy, More Likely To Have Chronic And Multiple Conditions; Diabetes Spreading Worldwide

World's Population Is Getting Sicker, Study Shows by Robert Preidt.  U.S. News Health.  June 8, 2015. 

Why Are 95% Of People Who Live To 110 Women? New And Needed Direction For Research

Why Are 95% of People Who Live to 110 Women?  You're As Old As Your Stem Cells.  Cell Press/Science Daily.  June 4, 2015. 

Rat Limb Grown In Laboratory; May Foreshadow Growing Human Replacement Limbs

Scientists Grow New Limb In A Lab by Bianca Seidman.  CBS News.  June 5, 2015. 

For Good Or Ill, Obamacare Seems To Be Driving New Hospital Hiring

Thanks, Obamacare?  Healthcare Jobs Grow At Fastest Pace In 24 Years by Dan Diamond.  Forbes.  June 5, 2015. 

Hospital May Be Capable Of Becoming More Productive And May, In Fact, Be More Productive--Obamacare Assumption Correct?

Obamacare's Big Gamble On Hospital Productivity by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  May 25, 2015. 

Previously Unknown Vessel Discovered Linking Neurological and Immune Systems; Could Have Implications For Alzheimer's

Landmark Study Finds Previously Unseen Linked Between The Brain And Immune System by Carolyn Gregoire.  Huffington Post.  June 5, 2015. 

Marketing The 'Female Viagra'--Does The Science Really Support It?

'Female Viagra' May Be More Marketing Than Science by Anna Edney and Danielle Burger.  Bloomberg Business.  June 5, 2015. 

High Stakes In Supreme Court Obamacare Decision: Over 6 Million May Lose Tax Credits; Over 400,000 In Georgia

State-By-State Effects Of A Ruling For Challengers In King v. Burwell.  Kaiser Family Foundation. June 2015.

Comprehensive Screening Of Virus Exposure Could Help Identify Hidden And new Viral Infections

Cheap Blood Test Reveals Every Virus You've Ever Been Exposed To by Jessica Hamzelou.  New Scientist.  June 4, 2015. 

Context Often Determines Perceived Pain: Marathon Lessons

Forgetting The Pain Of Exercise by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  June 3, 2015. 

Anxiety, Surpassing Depression, Leads To Exploding Campus Demand For Mental Health Services

Anxious Students Strain College Mental Health Centers by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  May 27, 2015. 

California Water Usage--A Problem For All Of Us But Also An Opportunity

Fear Of Almonds by Mark Bittman.  The New York Times.  June 3, 2015. 

Predictable Public Health Disasters Are Not Being Planned For

The Most Predictable Disaster In The History Of The Human Race by Ezra Klein. Vox.  May 27, 2015. 

Dense Breast Tissue Notification Laws Raise Issues Of Testing, Treatment, Cost, And Technology

You Have Dense Breasts.  What Does That Mean?  by Barbara Feder Ostrov.  The Washington Post.  June 1, 2015. 

Study Examines Why Drug Prices In U.S. Are "Extraordinarily High" As Compared With Other Countries

New Study Offers Drug Pricing Lessons From Abroad, Urges Changes In U.S. by George Lauer.  California Healthline.  May 28, 2015. 

F.T.C. Settlement Indicates Determination To Increasing Competition In The Pharmaceutical Industry

Teva Settles Cephalon Generics Case With F. T.C. For $1.2 Billion by Rebecca R. Ruiz And Katie Thomas.  May 28, 2015. 

Pricing Misstep Has Implications For Humana's Georgia Obamacare Participation

Obamacare Setback Has Humana Attempting Georgia Turnaround  by Zachard Tracer.  Bloomberg Business.  May 20, 2015. 

Dental Care In Georgia Ranks Low In Number of Dentists; Barriers To Dental Care Numerous

Report:  Georgia Ranks Low In Availability Of Dentists by Michelle Wirth.  WABE.  May 29, 2015. 

Immunotherapy Becomes Established Along With Surgery, Radiation, And Chemotherapy As Cancer Fighting Tool; Genetic Tools Can Predict Effectiveness

New Immunotherapy Drug Outperforms Chemotherapy For A Form Of Lung Cancer by Lenny Bernstein.  May 29, 2015. 

Auditory and Visual Hallucinations Occur To About 5% At Some Point

Hallucinations And Delusions More Common Than Thought.  University of Queensland/Science Daily.  May 27, 2015. 

3-D Printer Generates Realistic Model Of Cancerous Tumor; More Effective Testing Of Anti-Cancer Drugs Possible

3-D Printer Generates Realistic Model Of A Cancerous Tumor.  IOP Publishing/Science Daily.  May 27, 2015. 

Colorectal Cancer In Young People Is Rising; New Chemotherapies May Be Required

Colorectal Cancer Genetically Different In Older And Younger Patients.  University Of Colorado Denver/Science Daily.  May 29, 2015. 

Technology Used By Hospitals To Spot Decompensations Which Foreshadow Fast Developing Conditions

Hospitals Find New Ways To Monitor Patients 24/7 by Laura Landro.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 25, 2015.

Adequate Staffing Of Nurses Is Critical For Patient Outcomes

We Need More Nurses by Alexandra Robbins.  The New York Times.  May 28, 2015

New Understanding Of The Genetic Mechanisms Of Pain May Offer New Treatment Options

Uncomfortably Numb:  The People who Feel No Pain by Mo Constandi.  The Guardian. May 25, 2015. 

Caution Advised On Genetic Tests; Results Vary; Significance Of Findings Often Unclear

Study Reveals Flaws In Gene Testing;  Results Often Conflict by Marilyyn Marchione.  Associated Press/Denver Post.  May 28, 2015.

Diseases Associated With Tick Bites Get New Emphasis; Lyme Disease Is Just A Small Part Of The Problem

New Hopkins Center To Focus On Lyme Disease by Meredith Cohn.  The Baltimore Sun.  May 25, 2015. 

Longevity Through Optimizing Our Surroundingss: What Centenarians In Epicenters Of Longevity Can Tell Us

Want Great Longevity And Health?  It Takes A Village by Dan Buettner.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 22, 2015. 

Skipping Meals Sets Body Up For Insulin/glucose Fuctuations And Fat Gain

Skipping Meals May Increase Belly Fat, Study Finds by Paula Cohen.  CBS News.  May 21, 2015. 

The "Wink And Nod" And Physician Assisted Suicide

The Gray Areas Of Assisted Suicide by April Dembosky.  KQED/Kaiser Health News.  March 21, 2015. 

Oxytocin, The "Love Hormone," And Alcohol Have Similar Behavioral Effects Even While Impacting Different Brain Receptors

The Sober Science Behind 'Drunk in Love' by Charlotte Lytton.  The Daily Beast.  May 21, 2015. 

Senior Health Ranked By State: Vermont Leads; Georgia 39th

How Healthy Are Seniors In Your State?  by Kimberly Leonard.  U.S. News.  May 20, 2015. 

Case Of Cancer Fundraising Fraud Shows How Illness Provides Criminal Opportunities For some

Major Cancer Charities Shut Down Amid $187 Million Donation Scam by Liz Fields.  Vice.  May 20, 2015. 

Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome Has Seemed To Stablize; Demographics May Foreshadow Future Rise However

Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome In The U.S. Has Stabilized.  Can It Last?  by Karen Kaplan.  The Lost Angeles Times.  May 19, 2015. 

Suicide Rate For Black Boys Doubled Over Last Two Decades; Rate For White Children Dropped

Suicide Rates Among Young Black Boys On The Rise by Carina Storrs.  CNN.  May 19, 2015. 

A Quarter Of All Elderly Americans Could Become "Elder Orphans"

A Quarter Of All Elderly Americans Could Be Orphans In The Times To Come by Anjali Singh Deswai.  May 19, 2015. 

Study Involving 32,000 Men Shows Association Of Frequent Ejaculation And Reduced Prostate Cancer Risk

Best Evidence Yet!:  Ejaculation Reduces Prostate Cancer Risk by Nick Mulcahy.  Medscape. May 17, 2015. 

L'Oreal To Begin 3D-Printing Skin For Product Evaluation; Firm Ended Animal Testing In 1989

L'Oreal To Begin 3D-Printing Skin by Tracy Staedter.  Discovery.  May 19, 2015. 

States To Lose $721 Billion Over A Decade If The Supreme Court Rules Against Obamacare Subsidies

States Lose $721B SCOTUS Rules Against Subsidies In Obamacare by Brianna Ehley.  The Fiscal Times.  May 17, 2015. 

Experiment Results Confirm That Sexual Reproduction Weeds Out Genetic Flaws, Providing One Answer To The Question "Why Do Men Exist?"

Why Do Males Exist?  The Sex Live Of Beetles Provide An Explanation by Alan Boyle.  May 18, 2015. 

Value Of Unpaid Caregivers Is $450 Billion; Congressional Recognition Of Their Importance Is Developing

It's Time To Champion Unpaid Family Caregivers by Jo Ann Jenkins.  AARP Bulletin.  April 2015.

Reorganizing Work Flow Allows Stroke Patients To Quickly Move From Door-To-Needle And Still Benefit From MRI

Saving Critical Time Diagnosing Stroke Patients With MRI By Borrowing 'Lean' Principles.  MedStar Washington Hospital Center.  May 13, 2015. 

Three-Way Link Between Antibiotic Use, Gut Bacteria, And Later Disease

Infant Antibiotic Use Linked To Adult Diseases.  University of Minnesota, Academic Health Center/Science Daily.  May 13, 2015. 

541,000 Georgians Enroll In This Year's ACA Exchanges; Gwinnett Leads The Way With Over 73,000

Gwinnett, Metro Atlanta Top Exchange Enrollment by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  May 13, 2015. 

Fingerprints Provide Drug-Use Evidence That Cannot Be Faked

Fingerprints Show Success As Cocaine Drug Test Via Chemical Secretion by Chris Weller.  Medical Daily.  May 15, 2015. 

$37 Billion Needed Over Next Ten Years To Spur Antibiotic Development; Antimicrobial Resistance Could Kill 300 Million Prematurely If AMR Is Not Addressed

Multibillion-Dollar Investment Needed To Fight Drug-Resistant 'Superbugs' by Denise Roland.  The Wall Street Journal.  May 13, 2015. 

The "Most Distinctive" Causes Of Death By State

Death In Your State:  What's The Most 'Distinctive' Killer.  Yahoo Health.  May 15, 2015. 

F.D.A. Produces Reference Material to Insure That Genetic Tests Are Accurate And Consistent

U.S. Introduces New DNA Standard For ensuring Accuracy Of Genetic Tests by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  May 14, 2015. 

Trend In Grip Strength Found To Be Stronger Predictor Of Death Than Systolic Blood Pressure

Get A Grip!  Global Study Shows Grip Strength Is A Simple And Powerful Predictor Of Death.  Forbes.  Larry Husten.  May 14, 2015. 

Penalties Often Work Better Than Pure Reward In Smoking Cessation

Study Asks If Carrot Or Stick Can Better Help Smokers Stop by Sabrina Tavernise.  The New York Times.  May 13, 2015. 

Benefits Company Responds To Out-Of-Line Hospital Bills With One Word: No; Computes What Is Reasonable And Pays That Amount

Radical Approach To Huge Hospital Bills:  Set Your Own Price by Jay Hancock.  Kaiser Health News.  May 13, 2015. 

Seasons Appear To Influence Genetic Activity; Inflammation Influenced As Well As Perhaps Several Other Conditions

Seasons May Tweak Genes That Trigger Some Chronic Diseases by Rob Stein.  NPR.  May 12, 2015. 

Medieval Hospital and Mass Grave Under A Supermarket In France Sheds Light On Healthcare And French History

A Grisly Find Under A Supermarket Illuminates Frances Medieval History.  The New York Times.  May 11, 2015. 

Telemedicine And Medical Apps Multiply

An Uber For Doctor Housecalls by Jennifer Jolly.  The New York Times/Wired Well.  May 5, 2015. 

Drinking Recylced Water Presents Marketing Challenge: The "Yuck" Factor

Recycled Drinking Water:  Getting Past The Yuck Factor by John Schwartz.  The New York Times.  May 8, 2015. 

Listeria Impacts Immuno-compromised Individuals Perhaps Pointing to Dimished Microbiome As The Basic Problem

Invite Some Germs To Dinner by Kate Murphy.  The New York Times.  May 9, 2015. 

To Thread A Political Needle, Hospital Seeks To Craft Plan So That Georgia Uninsured And Hospitals Can See Some Benefit From Available Federal Funds

Grady Outlines Plan To Transform Care For Uninsured by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  May 8, 2015.