Colorectal Cancers In Adults In Their 20s And 30s Rises Rapidly: Reason Unknown

Colon And Rectal Cancers Rising In Young People by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times.  February 28, 2017. 

Rudeness Impacts Medical Skills In Hospitals

What Happens When Parents Are Rude In The Hospital by Perri Klass, M.D. The New York Times. 

Physicians Educated During Obamacare Era Ready To Fight For Patients

The Obamacare Generation Of Physicians Is Read To Fight For Patients by Nuriel Moghavem.  Kevin MD.  February 26, 2017. 

Trans Students Face 'Detrimental' Health Effects Without Fed Protection

Trans Students Face 'Detrimental' Health Effects Without Fed Protection by Julie Compton by NBC News.  February 25, 2017. 

Psychedelics Change The treament Of Depression

How Psychedelics Like Psilocybin And LSD Actually Change The Way People See The World by Kevin Loria.  Business Insider.  February 26, 2017. 

Evaluating New Drugs Is About To Take A Step Backward

When Cancer Treatments Do More Harm Than Good by Cary Gross.  The Washington Post.  February 24, 2017. 

Geriatricians, Experts In Complexity, Confront Multiple Interacting Ailments

Geriatricians Can Help Aging Patients Navigate Multiple Ailments by Judith Graham.  Kaiser Health News.  February 23, 2017. 

A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With A Person's Own Microbes

A Probiotic Skin Cream Made With A Person's Own Microbes by Ed Yong.  The Atlantic.  February 22, 2017. 

Same-Sex Marriage Laws Seems Correlated With Decrease Teen Suicide Attempt Rates; Suicide is Second Leading Cause of Death Among Those 15 To 24 Years

Same-Sex Marriage Laws Might Decrease Teen Suicide Attempt Rates Says Study by AJ Willingham.  CNN.  February 22, 2017. 

Latinos With Alzheimer's Expected To Rise By More Than Eight Times by 2060

'Tsunami' Of Alzheimer's Cases Among Latinos Raises Concerns Over Costs, Caregiving by Ana B. Ibarra and Heidi de Marco.  Kaiser Health News.  February 17, 2017. 

Security Policy And Global Health Policy Are Linked: Bill Gates

Bill Gates:  A New Kind Of Terrorism Could Wipe Out 30 Million People In Less Than A Year--And We Are Not Prepared.  Business Insider.  February 18, 2017. 

Climate change Could Have Wide-Ranging Effects On Mental Health

Climate Change Could Have Wide-Ranging Effects On Mental Health by Sara G. Miller.  LiveScience.  February 17, 2017. 

ER Doctors Could Have A Big Impact On Later Opioid Use

The Doctor You See In The ER May Put You On A Path Toward Long-Term Opioid Use.  The Washington Post.  February 15, 2017. 

Olive Oil Improves The Function Of HDL

Scientists May Have Figured Out Why Olive Oil Is So Healthy.  Huffington Post. February 14, 2017. 

Election-Related Stress Causes American Stress Levels To Increase For The First Time Since 2007

Americans Just Broke The Psychologists' Stress Record by Deena Shanker.  Bloomberg.  February 15, 2017. 

Anti-Vaccine Movement Seems Energized Under President Trump

I Was Skeptical that The Anti-Vaccine Movement Was Gaining Traction.  Not Anymore by Julia Belluz.  Vox  February 15, 2017. 

National Academy Of Sciences Allows Very Limited Gene Editing Of Viable Human Embryos--Purpose To Prevent Serious Genetic Diseases Where Not Reasonable Alternatives Exist

Scientists Can Now Edit Human Genes.  A Big New Report Asks Whether We should by Brad Plumer.  Vox.  February 15, 2017. 

Effort To Stiff Obamacare Leads To Huge Potential Legal Liability; Will Trump Honor Obligation?

Insurer Scores A $200M Court Win After GOP Move To Block O'Care Payments by Tierney Sneed.  Talking Points Memo.  February 10, 2017. 

Whole Grains Benefit Gut Microbiota

Two New Studies Uncover More Health Benefits of Whole Grains by AFP Relax NewsYahoo News.  February 9, 2017. 

Obamacare Elimination Could Gut Georgia Health Fund

Obamacare Elimination Could Gut Georgia Health Fund by Craig Schneider.  MyAJC.  February 7, 2017.

Persuading Children To Eat Veggies: Strategies From Womb To Adulthood

Winning The War:  How To Persuade Children To Eat More Veggies.  Kansas State University/Science Daily.  February 6, 2017. 

Johns Hopkins Shares Surgical Methods With 750 Other Hospitals

Hopkins To Share Surgical Care Methods With 750 Other Hospitals by Meredith Cohn.  Baltimore Sun.  February 6, 2017. 

Global Gag Rule Will Cut Off Life-Saving Aid To Millions Increasing Preventable Deaths

Trump's Radical Attack On Global Health by Dr. Jamila K. Taylor And John Norris.  Real Clear Health.  February 7, 2017. 

Forty Million Americans Have Lost Some Hearing Lost; Half From Outside Workplace

A Quarter Of Adults In The U.S. Have Hearing Loss Because Of Noise by Lenny Bernstein.  Washington Post.  February 7, 2017. 

Tom Brady Charts His Own Health Plan And Is Super Bowl Champion At Almost 40

Tom Brady Rejected NFL's Medical Culture.  At Almost 40 He's Never Played Better by Sally Jenkins.  The Washington Post.  February 6, 2017. 

International Medical Graduates Have Lower Mortality Rates According To Massive Medicare Study

Study Suggests That Immigrant Doctors Provide Better Care Than U.S. Medical Graduates by Bruce Y. Lee.  Forbes.  February 4, 2017

Almost 30% Of Doctors And Surgeons In The U.S. Are Immigrants; Restricting Immigration Will Have Severe Impacts

How Trump's Immigration Ban Threatens Health Care, In 3 Charts by Julia Belluz And Sarah Frostenson.  Vox.  February 3, 2017. 

Brain Synapses Expand During Wakened State; Shrink During Sleep Leaving Room For Growth

Sleep Research High-Resolution Images Show How The Brain Resets During Sleep.  University of Wisconin-Madison. 

With Spring Deadline Looming, Obamacare Repeal Stalls

The G.O.P Campaign To Repeal Obamacare Hits A Wall by Robert Pear and Reed Abelson.  The New York Times.  February 2, 2017. 

Cleveland Clinic Medical Professionals Protest Deportation Of Resident, Trump Ties

Hundreds Of Doctors And Nurses Urge The Cleveland Clinic To Stand Up To Trump by Lindsey Bever And Lenny Bernstein.  Washington Post.  February 2, 2017. 

International Exchange And American Medicine: Learning From Diversity

International Exchange And American Medicine.  Physicians From Massachusetts General Hospital; Brigham and Women's Hospital;  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center;  Johns Hopkins Medicine;  University of Michigan Health System;  University of Pennsylvania Perelman School Of Medicine.  February 1, 2017. 

AARP, Membership 38 Million, Enters Debate About Replacing The Affordable Care Act

Another Warning Sign For Republicans Trying To Repeal Obamacare by Jonathan Cohn.  Huffington Post.  February 2, 2017. 

Supreme Court Nominee Has Written Extensively On Physician Assistant Suicide

Neil Gorsuch Wrote The Book On Assisted Suicide.  Here's What He Said by Derek Hawkins.  The Washington Post.  February 1, 2017.