Our Sedentary Lifestyles Cost About 5 Million Lives A Year

Our Sedentary Lifestyles Cost About 5 Million Lives A Year by Kate Kelland.  Huffington Post.  July 28, 2016

Diet's Impact On Land Needed To Produce Food

U.S. Land Capacity For Feeding People Could Expand With Dietary Changes.  Tufts University/Science Daily.  July 22, 2016

The Body As A Source Of Antibiotic That Kill MRSA

This Smells Promising:  Nasal Bacteria Pump Out A New Antibiotic That Kills MRSA by Anna Vlasits.  Stat.  July 27, 2016

What Does Effectiveness In Healthcare Mean? How Has It Evolved?

What's In A Word?  The Evolution Of Effectiveness In Health Care by Murray Ross.  Health Affairs.  July 26, 2016

Changing Functions Of Hospitals

In A Hospital, Health Care Until The Clock Runs Out by Abigail Zuger, M.D.  The New York Times.  July 25, 2016

Isolating The Causes Of Diabetes

Skinny And 119 Pounds, But With The Health Hallmarks Of Obesity by Gina Kolata.  New York Times.  July 22, 2016

Georgia Could See the Third-Largest Drop In Uninsured People With Medicaid Expansion

Study Projects Expansion's Big Impact On Georgia Uninsured by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  July 19, 2016.

Can A Nurse Practitioner Replace A Physician

Can A Nurse Practitioner Replace A Physician?  by John N. Mafi And Bruce E. Landon.  Slate.  July 22, 2016

Advanced Ordering Of Meals May Cut Calories

Want To Cut Calories?  New Studies Suggest Placing Orders Before It's Time To Eat.  University Of Pennsylvania School Of Medicine.  July 19, 2016

Miniature Biorobots For Medicine

New Remote-Controlled Microrobots For Medical Operations.  Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne/Science Daily.  July 22, 2016

New Detailed Map Of Brain Presents Nearly 100 Previously Unknown Regions; Total Now 180

Updated Brain Map Identifies Nearly 100 New Regions by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  July 20, 2016

Against Health Data Privatization By Opening Up The Closed-Data And Closed-Algorithm Approach

Stop The Privatization Of Health Data by John T. Wilbanks & Eric J. Topol.  Nature.  July 20, 2016

Relationship Of Mental Illness And Terrorism

The Murky Role Of Mental Illness In Extremism, Terror by Maria Cheng.  AP.  July 20, 2016

11 Charts Illustrate How Expensive American Healthcare Is Compared To Other Countries

America's Health Care Prices Are Out Of Control.  These 11 Charts Prove It by Sarah Kliff and Soo Oh.  Vox.  July 19, 2016

Up To 37,000 Premature Deaths Per Year Due To Pollution From East Asian Vessels

The Smoggy Seas:  Cargo Ships Bring Pollution, Health Risks by Natalie Jacewicz.  NPR.  July 19, 2016.

How And Why Medicine Is Failing Obese People

Medicine Is Failing Obese People by Farah Naz Khan.  Vox.  July 18, 2016

Cutting Sugar Rapidly Improves Heart Health Markers

Cutting Sugar Rapidly Improves Heart Health Markers by Rachel Rabkin Peachman.  The New York Times.  July 19, 2016

Social Behavior And The Brain/Immune System Link: Possible Implications for Schizophrenia and Autism

Shocking New Role Found For the Immune System:  Controlling Social Interaction.  University Of Virginia Health System/Science Daily.  July 13, 2016. 

Neurological Explanation For Obesity: Lack of Inhibition of Pleasant Food Memories Related To Overconsumption

Western-Style Diet Linked To State-Dependent Memory Inhibition.  Society For the Study Of Ingestive Behavior/Science Daily.  July 12, 2016.

Ethical, Environmental, And Health Problems Associated With Many Foods In The Supermarket

The Neurotic Eater's Grocery List by Nick Tabor And James D. Walsh.  New York Magazine.  July 10, 2016. 

Study Of Physician And Patient Cancer Estimates Shows Large Difference

A Lot Of Cancer Patients Aren't On The Same Page As Their Doctors by Jesse Singal.  New York Magazine.  July 15, 2016

Study: 13.54 Million Women And 3.36 Million Children In Sub-Saharan AfricaDevote Significant Time To Fetching Water

Millions Of Women Take A Long Walk With A 40-Pound Water Can by Vicky Hallett.  NPR.  July 7, 2016.

The Suprising Disease That Kills More Than Malaria, Tuberculosis Or HIV/AIDS

What Kills More People Each Year:  TB, HIV-AIDS Or Viral Hepatitis by Emily Sohn.  NPR.  July 14, 2016

CDC Director: Lessons From Ebola For Zika

What The Fading Ebola Epidemic Can Teach Us About The Looming Zika Crisis by Thomas R. Frieden.  July 13, 2016

"Right To Try" Movement May Be Reflected In Republican Platform

Republicans Embrace The "Right To Try: To Get Experimental Medicines by Ed Silverman.  Stat.  July 12, 2016

The Medical Record And Data From Wearable Fitness Devices: Key Questions

4 Questions Every Healthcare Provider Should Ask About Fitness Wearables by Lisa A. Eramo.  MedCityNews.  July 11, 2016

Pokemon Smartphone Game Has Kids On The Move With Augmented Reality

Pokemon Has Kids On The Move--And On Their Phones by KJ Dell'Antonia.  The New York Times.  July 12, 2016

Apps And Online Symptom Checkers Require Caution

Using The Web Or An App Instead Of Seeing A Doctor?  Caution is Advised by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  July 11, 2016

Opinion: Maybe 97% Of Medicine Can Be Reduced To Algorithms--The Uberization of Medicine

How Uber Will Redicine Healthcare by Robert Graboyes.  Realclearhealth.  July 11, 2016.

Overworked Americans Aren't Taking The Vacation They've Earned

Overworked Americans Aren't Taking The Vacation They've Earned by Patti Neighmond.  NPR.  July 12, 2016

Bagged Greens And Salad Kits Sales Projected To reach $7 Billion A Year

As Bagged Salad Kits Boom Americans Eat More Greens by Dan Charles and Allison Aubrey.  NPR.  July 12, 2016. 

American Breakfast Is Really A Sugary Dessert

We Need To Call American Breakfast What It Often Is:  Dessert by Julia Belluz And Javier Zarracina.  Vox.  July 11, 2016. 

Support For The Hygiene Theory Of Allegery: Thumb-Sucking Seems Associated With Less Allegeries

Thumb-Sucking, Nail-Biting Have A Positive Side:  Kids Less Likely To Develop Allergies.  McMaster University/Science Daily.  July 11, 2016. 

Prevalent Gender Pay Gap At Public Medical Schools

Dr. Paid Less:  An Old Title Still Fits Female Physicians by Catherine Saint Louis.  The New York Times.  July 11, 2016

Diverse Disciplines Tapped To Address Health Problems In "Convergence" Science

 Report:  'Convergence Science' Has Potential To Accelerate The Research-To-Product Pipeline by Zhai Yun Tan.  Kaiser Health News.  July 8, 2016

3D Printing Applied To Prosthetics

3D Printing Has Changed The Prosthetics Business by Maxine Wally.  Fortune.  July 8, 2016

Disclosure Of Biased Information Found To Often Increase The Likelihood That Biased Information Will Be Acce[ted

The Paradox Of Disclosure by Sunita Sah.  The New York Times.  July 8, 2016.

Major Diseases In Decline For Largely Unknown Reasons

A Medical Mystery Of The Best Kind:  Major Diseases Decline by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  July 8, 2016.

Number of Americans Living With Congenital Heart Defects Rose Dramatically

More Americans Living With Congenital Heart Defects by Will Boggs MD.  Reuters.  July 5, 2016

Medicine's Next Step

Medicine's Next Step by Barack Obama.  The Boston Globe.  July 7, 2016

What Is Healthy Food And What Is Not? Nutritionists And Americans Agree And Disagree

Is Sushi 'Healthy'?  What About Granola?  Where Americans And Nutritionists Disagree by Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz.  The New York Times.  July 5, 2016

Legalization of Medical Marijuana Associated With Declines in Prescriptions For Pain

After Medical Marijuana Legalized, Medicare Prescriptions Drop For Many Drugs by Shefali Luthra.  NPR.  July 6, 2016

Sunscreens Often Don't Meet Dermatologists' Standards

4 In 10 Top-Selling Sunscreens On Amazon Don't Meet Dermatologists' Standards, Study Says by Karen Kaplan.  July 6, 2016

Doctor Sexual Abuse Sometimes Goes Unpunished

Report:  Sexual Abuse by Doctors Sometimes Goes Unpunished. AP/CBS.  July 6, 2016

The Insider's Advantage In The Healthcare System

The Illicit Perks Of the M.D. Club by Vatsal G. Thakkar.  The New York Times.  June 30, 2016. 

Providing Frequent ER Patients With Housing And A Case Manager Found To Save Money, Improve Health

A Hospital Offers Frequent ER Patients An Out--Free Housing by Miles Bryan.  NPR. June 29, 2016

The Ethics Of Treating Friends And Family

Doctors Disagree About The Ethics Of Treating Friends And Family.  Newsworks.  July 1, 2016.