Bridging The Bio-Electronic Divide

Cyborgs Aren't Just For Sci-Fi Anymore by Joelle Renstrom.  The Daily Beast.  April 15, 2016

The Myth Of Myth Busting; The Doubters Spread Their Own Legends

Who Will Debunk The Debunkers? by Daniel Engber.  FiveThirty Eight.  April 28, 2016

New Center For Health And Happiness Focuses On Neglected Relationship

Harvard Has A New Center For Happiness by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  April 26, 2016

Four New Genetic Diseases Defined Within Schizophrenia Suggesting More Precise Treatments

Four New Genetic Diseases Defined Within Schizophrenia.  NYU Langone Medical Center/Science Daily.  April 28, 2016. 

Some Basic Steps Can Help Avoid Hospital Ransomware Attacks

Here's How Hospitals Can Protect Themselves From Ransomware Attacks by Denise Anderson.  Stat.  April 27, 2016

Where Refugees Settle Matters For Their Health: A Study Of Type 2 Diabetes--Implications For Today And The Future

Where Refugees Settle Matters For Their Health by Andrew Joseph.  Stat.  April 27, 2016

Apple Store Inspired Hospital; No Doctor's Offices; Wireless Tracking Of Patients And Staff

The Medical Center Looks And Feels Like An Apple Store by Bob Tedeschi.  Stat.  April 27, 2016

Colorado Proposal Would Replace Obamacare With Universal Coverage

Colorado Weighs Replacing Obama's Health Policy With Universal Coverage by Rick Healy.  The New York Times.  April 28, 2016

Emergency Abdominal Surgeries Are Among The Most Deadly

The 7 Deadliest Emergency General Surgeries by Dennis Thompson.  HealthDay/Real Clear Health.  April 27, 2016

Georgia Governor OK Funds For Pregnancy Centers That Do Not Present All Legal Options

Georgia Governor OKs State Funds For Anti-Abortion Centers by Kathleen Foody. AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  April 26, 2016.

The Dangers Of 'Polypharmacy,' Include Unforeseen Interactions

The Dangers Of 'Polypharmacy,' the Ever-Mounting Pile of Pills by Paula Span.  The New York Times.  April 22, 2016

Increased Demand For Cosmetic Surgery For Genitalia

More Teenage Girls Seeking Genital Surgery by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times.  April 25, 2016

Do International Medical Volunteers Help Or Harm?

Book Review:  'Hoping to Help' Questions Value Of Volunteers by Abigail Zuger.  The New York Times.  April 25, 2016

Speedometer Case Before The Supreme Court Could Dramatically Impact Pharmaceuticals

An Obscure Supreme Court Case Is A Big Deal For Prescription Drugs by Dylan Scott.  STAT/Real Clear Health.  April 22, 2016.

Kaiser Permanente Targets Unmet Social Determinants Of Health

Health Care That Targets Unmet Social Needs by Nirav R. Shah, Artair J. Rogers and Michael H. Kanter.  New England Journal of Medicine.  April 13, 2016

White Women and Native Americans Drive 24% Increase in Suicide Between 1999 and 2014

U.S. Suicides Have Soared Since 1999, CDC Report Says by Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times.  April 21, 2016

Evolution Of Hospitals Into Health Systems Is Just One Of The Factors In Changes In Rankings

An Updated Honor Roll by Ben Harder and Avery Comarow.  U.S. News.  April 20, 2016. 

What May Happen If Our Knowledge Of Weather Trends Becomes Obsolete

A New Dark Age Looms by William B. Gail.  The New York Times.  April 20, 2016.

Genetic Counselors Struggle To Keep Up With Huge New Demand

Genetic Counselors Struggle To Keep Up With Huge New Demand by Todd Bookman.  Kaiser Health News.  April 18, 2016

Health Care Law Clearly Reduced Measures Of Inequality; Hispanics and Low-Wage Workers Gain

Immigrants, The Poor And Minorities Gain Sharply Under Health Act by Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff.  The New York Times.  April 17, 2016

Nanotechnolgy and X-Rays Help Deliver Drugs With Pinpoint Accuracy

X-Rays Help Deliver Drugs With Pinpoint Accuracy by Dave Zobel.  Inside Science.  April 11, 2016

E-Skin Could Offer Monitoring That Easily Moves And Flexes With Body

E-Skin:  How To Paint Electronics Onto Your Body by Christina Beck.  Christian Science Monitor. April 16, 2016

World's First Operation In 3D: Innovation In Medical Training

Cutting-Edge Theatre: World's First Virtual Reality Operation Goes Live by Nicola Davis.  The Guardian.  April 14, 20156

Compulsive Hoarding Affects Up To 6 Percent Of Americans

Hoarding Is A Serious Disorder--And It's Only Getting Worse In the U.S.  by Sara Solovitch.  Washington Post.  April 11, 2016

Sugar, Not Fat, As The Main Danger To Health: Discovered 35 Years Ago But Surpressed

The Sugar Conspiracy by Ian Leslie. The Guardian.  April 7, 2016

Inside The Movement To Declare Pornography A "Health Crisis"

Inside The Movement To Declare Pornography A "Health Crisis" by James Hamblin.  The Atlantic.  April 14, 2016

A Thyroid Tumor No Longer Classifed As Cancer; Points To Possible Need To Reclassify Other Lesions

It's Not Cancer:  Doctors Reclassify A Thyroid Tumor by Gina Kolata.  New York Times.  April 14, 2016

Cautionary Tale of Theranos: Any Revolution Must Be Validated

Theranos Was Supposed To Revolutionize Blood Tests.  Now Its CEO Faces An Industry Ban by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  April 13, 2016

ACS: Patients Need To Be Informed If Surgeon Runs More Than One Operating Room Simultaneously

Surgeons Must Tell Patients Of Double-Booked Surgeries, New Guidelines Say by Jenn Abelson and Jonathan Saltzman.  Boston Globe.  April 13, 2016

Medical Foods Being Developed by Nestle And Others

Nestle Develops Foods To Treat diseases by John Revill.  The Wall Street Journal.  April 12, 2016.

Nestle To Develop Food to Treat Disease by Valentin Flauraud.  Reuters/RT.  April 13, 2016

Doctors And The Treatment Of Obesity: What Are The Barriers?

Fat?  Your Doctor Can't Help by Kimberly Leonard.  US News.  April 12, 2016

Peripheral Artery Disease: Disease Of Millions Increasing Risk Of Heart Attack, Stroke

Millions With Leg Pain Have Peripheral Artery Disease by Jane E. Brody.  The New York Times.  April 11, 2016. 

Ratio of Mental Health Professionals To Citizens In Developing Countries: One In A Million; Aid Groups Aim For Improvement

Aid Groups Aim To Put Mental Health On World Agenda by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  April 12, 2016

Genes Say Sick, Body Says Well: What Can Be Learned From These People

Search For New Medical Treatments Zeroes In On Genetic Superheroes by Antonio Regalado. Technology Review.  April 11, 2016. 

Physician Burnout And Mental Wellbeing Draws Attention From Surgeon General

Surgeon General Concerned About Physician Burnout by Joyce Frieden.  MedPage Today.  April 10, 2016

Creeping Consolidation Of Health Care Providers Often Escape Regulators' Notice

Small, Piecemeal Mergers In Health Care Fly Under Regulators' Radars by Reed Abelson.  The New York Times.  April 8, 2016

Gwinnett County Georgia: Poor And Rich Life Expectancies

Where The Poor LiveLonger:  How Your Area Compares by Gregor Aisch, Quoctrung Bui, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy.  The New York Times.  April 11, 2016

The Rich Live Longer Everywhere. For The Poor, Geography Matters

The Rich Live Longer Everywhere.  For The Poor, Geography Matters by Neil Irwin and Quoctrung Bui.  The New York Times.  April 11, 2016

Obesity Threatens Gains In Lifespan; New Strategies Needed

Will Obesity Reverse The Life-Span Gains Made Over Decades Of Health Triumphs? by Melissa Healy.  The Los Angeles Times.  April, 4, 2016. 

Final HHS 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines For Americans

Final 2015-20 Dietary Guidelines For Americans.  Health Policy Briefs.  March 31, 2016

A Range Of Bogus Cancer Cures

Six Of The Strangest Cancer Cures by Ross Pomeroy.  Real Clear Science.  April 8, 2016. 

Synthetic Insulin, Replacing Human Insulin, Fuels A Tripling In Price Between 2002 and 2013

Diabetes Spreads As The Treatment For It Gets Pricier by Alex Zielinski.  Think Progress.  April 7, 2016

Study: Public Does Not Understand What The Term 'Overdiagnosis' Means; Majority Have Never Heard The Term

Public Doesn't Understand 'Overdiagnosis.'  Cancer Research UK/Science Daily.  April 6, 2016

Liquid Biopsy Firms Attract Big Bucks VC Funding; Have Many Obstacles Including Accurate Interpretation Of Results

Bezos, Gates Chase Dream Of A Blood Test That Detects Cancer by Caroline Chen.  Bloomberg.  April 6, 2016

Problem: How Do Electronic Health Records Capture The Fact That Patients Are More Than The Sum Of Their Problems

As Hospitals Go Digital, Human Stories Get Left Behind by Suzanne Koven.  STAT.  April 6, 2016

Difficult Patients Present Challenges For Proper Diagnosis, Focus, Perception, And Physician Biases

When Patients Are A Pain For their Doctors by Sumathi Reddy.  The Wall Street Journal.  April 4, 2016

Trend: Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Clinical Care

Patients Assessment Of Their Health Is Gaining Importance In Treatment by Michelle Andrews.  Kaiser Health News.  April 5, 2016

Drug Test Demonstrates Tremendous Gaps In Understanding Of Cholesterol And Heart Health

Dashing Hopes, Study Shows A Cholesterol Drug Had Not Effect On Heart Health by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  April 3, 2016

Reimagining Primary Care As No-Cost To Patient, With Top Notch Customer Service, And Lower Overall Costs

UnitedHealth Tries Boutique-Style Health Plan by Phil Galewitz.  Kaiser Health News/Real Clear Health.  April 4, 2016.

Widely Used Medications Had Heft Price Increases Over The Past Five Years

Exclusive:  Makers Took Big Price Increases On Widely Used U.S. Drugs by Caroline Humer.  Reuters.  April 4, 2016

Cost And Quality Of Care Are Concerns As Feds Out Of Nursing Homes And Into Home And Communty Programs

New Push To Keep Seniors In Home, Community-Based Programs by Alejandra Cancino.  Associated Press.  April 4, 2016

Simulated Old Age By Means Of A Robot May Help Create Empathy

Futuristic Suit That Gives You A Taste Of Old Age by Andy Newman.  The New York Times.  March 31, 2016

Just One Example Of Why Diversity Is Important In Biomedical Research

The Tampon Of The Future by Pagan Kennedy.  The New York Times.  April 1, 2016

Hospital Computer Attacks Call For Network And Training Solutions In A Changing Digital Environment; Vulnerabilities And Stakes High

Under Pressure To Digitize Everything, Hospitals Are Hackers' Biggest New Target by Carolyn Y. Johnson and Matt Zapotosky.  The Washington Post.  April 1, 2016

Worldwide, More Obesity Than Underweight

Obesity Now More Common Than Underweight Worldwide by Marcia Frellick.  April 2, 2016. 

Needed: More Precise Identification Of Who Benefits From ICU Care

Who Needs To Be In An ICU?  It's Hard For Doctors To Tell by Thomas Valley And Colin Cooke.  The Conversation/Real Clear Health. 

Virtual Reality Has The Potential To Improve Psychotherapy Access And Research

Virtual Reality And The Future Of Mental Health by Bill Gardner.  The Incidental Economist.  April 1, 2016

Patients With Many Questions Are The Best Teachers You Will Encounter

Narrating Medicine:  the Patients Who Peppers You With Questions Is Not Being 'Difficult' by Dr. Anna Reisman.  WBUR. March 29, 2016

The Barriers To Obtaining Critical Information About Your Doctor

What You Don't Know About Your Doctor Could Hurt You by Rachel Rabkin Peachman.  Consumer Reports

Effects Of "Manly" Perspective On Healthcare Received

The Perils Of Being Manly by Roberto A. Ferdman.  The Washington Post.  March 28, 2016

Unjustified Enthusiasm For Treatment--Therapeutic Illusion--Cripples Efforts To Reduce Unnecessary Treatments And Tests

The Science Of Choosing Wisely--Overcoming The Therapeutic Illusion by David Casarett, M.D.  The New England Journal Of Medicine.  April 6, 2016

Soda Consumption Hits A 30-Year Low In 2015

Soda Consumption Hits A 30-Year Low in 2015 by Julia Belluz.  Vox.  April 1, 2016.