Dozens Of Georgia Hospitals Operating In The Red: 5 Things To Know

Dozens Of Georgia Hospitals Operating In The Red:  5 Things To Know by Ayla Ellison.  Becker Hospital Review.  January 27, 2016. 

Substance Abuse And Suicide Deaths Explain Only A Portion Of Increase In Death Rates For White Adults 45-54

Middle-Age Whites In US Dying At Higher-Than-Expected Rates by Marcia Frellick.  Medscape.  January 29, 2016

Possible New Screening Method For Breast Cancer Focuses On Molecular Alternations

Vital Clues To Future Cancer Development In Normal Breast Tissue DNA.  University College London/Medical Xpress.  January 29, 2016. 

Zika Illustrates The Fact That Emerging Infectious Diseases Are Increasing And Unpredictable

Zika:  The Unexpected Pandemic by Michael Smith.  MedPage Today.  January 29, 2016

Scope Of Practice Struggle In Georgia Dental Health

Lawmaker Blasts Dental Group Over Hygienist Bill by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  January 27, 2016

Zika Virus May Push South America To Loosen Abortion Bans

Zika Virus May Push South America to Loosen Abortion Bans by Sarah Zhang.  Wired.  January 28, 2016. 

Genetic Cause For Inappropriate Purning Of Neural Connections--Possible Link To Schizophrenia

"Schizophrenia Gene" Discovery Sheds Light On Possible Cause by Rachael Rettner.  LiveScience/Scientific American.  January 28, 2016

Extended Life Span Increases Need For Geriatricians; Geriatrics Becomes Less Popular With Physicians In Training

As Population Ages, Where Are The Geriatricians?  by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  January 25, 2016. 

Sandersville GA hospital Shows Impact Of Local Politics On Hospital Governance

Rural Hospital's Bet On Car Dealer Goes Bust by Danny Robbins And Carrier Teegardin.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  January 23, 2016

Gun Violence Not A Mental Health Issue; Gun Suicide Is; 61% Of Firearm Fatalities Are Suicide

Gun Violence Not A Mental Health Issue, Experts Say, Pointing To 'Anger' Suicides by Emanuella Grinberg.  CNN.  January 25, 2016. 

Heart Attacks Strike More Women Than Men; Symptoms For Women Differ From Men

Heart Attacks In Women Can Be Different--And More Deadly--Than In Men by Brady Dennis.  The Washington Post.  January 25, 2016. 

Ethnobotanists Find Link Of Neurotoxin Found In Algae Blooms And Alzheimer's-Type Pathology

Algae Bloom Toxin Linked To Alzheimer's, Other Diseases by Amy Kraft.  CBS News.  January 21, 2016.

263% Rise In Abdominal Wall Birth Defect Is Puzzling; Environmental Factors Possible Cause

Bizarre Birth Defect Is On The Rise, And Researchers Are Baffled by Melissa Healy.  The Last Angeles Times.  January 21, 2016. 

Americans Living Past 100; Alzheimer's Deaths For Centenarians Increased 119 Percent

More Americans Are Living Past Their 100th Birthdays by Mary Brophy Marcus.  CBS News.  January 21, 2016. 

Alabama Outbreak Of Tuberculosis Fueled By Distrust Of Medicine

In Rural Alabama, A Longtime Mistrust Of Medicine Fuels A Tuberculosis Outbreak by Alan Blinder.  The New York Times.  January 17, 2016. 

Trends In Kidney Disease Reflect Positive And Negative

Report Identifies Positive News On Kidney Disease In the US, Yet Challenges Remain.  University of Michigan Health System/Science Daily.  January 18, 2016. 

Cancer Growth Found To Be Highly Ordered And Can Be Explained By Mathematical Rule

Laws Of Nature Predict Cancer Evolution.  Institute Of Cancer Research/Science Daily.  January 18, 2016. 

Performance Measurements In Medicine Can Both Improve And Distort

How Measurement Fails Doctors And Teachers by Robert M. Wachter.  The New York Times.  January 16, 2016. 

Analysis Of 60 Million Death Certificates Finds Disturbing Trends Among Less Educated Whites; Drugs Are A Problem

Drug Overdoses Propel Rise In Mortality Rates Of Young Whites by Gina Kolata and Sarah Cohen.  The New York Times.  January 16, 2016. 

Community Paramedics Cut ER Visits, Solve Problems, Direct Patients To Needed Resources

Community Paramedicine:  Unclogging ERs By Helping People At Home by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  January 7, 2015. 

Study: Quality Diet Associated With Improved Sleep

What You Eat Can Influence How You Sleep.  American Academy Of Sleep Medicine/Science Daily.   January 14, 2016

Hemophilia Drug Companies Hire Patients and Relatives To Sell Their Products

Hemophilia Patient Or Drug Seller?  Dual role Creates Ethical Quandary by Andrew Pollack.  The New York Times.  January 13, 2015. 

Average Age Of First-Time Moms Climbs; Contraception And Less Sex Credited

Average Age Of First-Time Moms Keeps Climbing In The U.S. By Rae Ellen Bichell.  NPR/Minnesota Public Radio.  January 13, 2016

Effort To Reduce Cost And Size Of Government Results In Lead In Drinking Water In Flint Michigan

In Flint, Bad Tap Water Runs Politically Deep by Janell Ross.  The Washington Post.  January 14, 2016. 

New Parnership For Retail Drug Clinics; Walgreens And CVS Take Different Approaches

Walgreens Shifts More Retail Clinic Ownership To Hospital Partners by Bruce Japsen.  Forbes.  Jan 11, 2016

Patient Care Versus Efficiency: Pressures On Hospitalists--Responses Include Unionization, Demoralization

Doctors Unionize To Resist The Medical Machine by Noam Scheiber.  The New York Times.  January 9, 2015. 

Cancer Death Rate Drops 23% In 21 Years

Cancer Statistics Report:  Death Rate Down 23% In 21 Years by Stacy Simon.  American Cancer Society. 

Georgia Ranks Seventh Highest Among States In Receipt Of Federal Aid; Medicaid Payments A Large Portion

How Much Does Georgia Rely Upon Federal Aid?  Atlanta Business Chronicle.  January 6, 2016. 

International Programs For Medical Students Can Have Unintended Consequences; Principles To Avoid Those Consequences

Global Medical Experience.  University of Delaware/Science Daily.  January 8, 2016. 

"Progression Away From Straightness" Noted In CDC Study Of Sexuality

Why Are More People Identifying Themselves As Bisexual by Story Hinckley.  Christian Science Monitor.  January 7, 2016

F.B.I To Received Protected Health Information To Prevent Gun Sales To Those With Those Pose Danger To Self And Others

Under Gun Rules, F.B.I. Will Receive Health Data by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  January 6, 2016. 

Woman Forced From Florida Hospital Dies In Parking Lot: Many Issues In Patient Care

Recordings Add Detail In Death Of Woman Forced From Florida Hospital by Christine Hauser.  The New York Times.  January 7, 2016

Sleep And Medical School

Why Future MDs Need More ZZZs by Arianna Yanes.  Huffington Post.  January 8, 2016/ 

Sexual Dysfunction Risks Of Prostate Surgery Not Communicated To, Or Perhaps Not Remembered By, Men

Men Don't Realize the Sexual Dysfunction Risks Of Prostate Surgery by Andrew M. Seaman.  Huffington Post.  January 7, 2016. 

New Dietary Guidelines Reflect Political And Scientific Pressures

New Dietary Guidelines Urge Less Sugar For All And Less Protein For Boys And Men by Anahad O'Connor.  January 7, 2015. 

38 Diets Ranked By Health Experts

Here's How Health Experts Ranked 38 Of The Most Popular Diets.  U.S. News/Huffington Post.  January 6, 2016. 

New Laws Increasingly Requirement Involvement Of Caregivers In Discharge Planning

Hospitals Required To Keep Caregivers In The Loop by Anna Gorman.  Kaiser Health News.  January 6, 2015. 

20 Percent Of Under 65 With Health Insurance Have Problem Paying The Bill; Cascade Of Financial Troubles May Result

Even Insured Can Face Crushing Medical Debt, Study Finds by Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  January 5, 2015. 

New Program Seeks To Social Dimension Of Healthcare

Medicare, Medicaid To Test Seamless Social Work by Stephen Feller.  UPI. January 5, 2016. 

Climate Change, Travel, Crowded Cities Create New Paths For Tropical Such As Zika

U.S. Becomes More Vulnerable To Tropical Diseases Like Zika by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  January 4, 2016

Oregon Becomes the Only State to Implement Pharmacist Prescriptions Of Birth Control

New Oregon Law Allows Pharmacists To Prescribe Birth Control Pills by Laura Geggel.  Live Science.  January 4, 2016. 

2015 In Drugs: Innovation Meets Costs Meets Policial Pressure

Drug Approvals At 19-Year High Belie Industry Challenges by Ben Hirschler.  Reuters.  January 4, 2016

The Difficulties And Perils Of Developing Public Health Policy: The Case Of The Cellphone

At C.D.C., A Debate Behind Recommendations On Cellphone Risk by Danny Hakim.  The New York Times.  January 1, 2016. 

How Sugar Might Fuel The Growth Of Cancer

Here's How Sugar Might Fuel The Growth Of Cancer by Maggie Fox.  NBC News/Today.  January 1, 2016. 

Guru Seeks Mass Market For Traditional Indian Ayruvedic Medicine

Yoga Gura Baba Ramdev's Traditional Remedies Take On Big Brands In India by Preetika Rana.  The Wall Street Journal.  December 30, 2015.