Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Information Security In Healthcare: A Many-Faceted Challenge

Medical Identity Theft A Growing Threat by Liv Osby.  Gannett/Greenville Online.  August 29, 2017. 

Sick Patients Were Once Well

Why Doctors Need To Remember That Sick Patients Were Once Healthy People by Dr. Abraar Karan.  August 28, 2017. 

Stem Cell Therapies Present Regulatory Challenges

F.D.A. Cracks Down On 'Unscrupulous' Stem Cell Clinics by Sheila Kaplan Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  August 28, 2017. 

Shadowing A Public Health Investigator

A Sisterhood Of Sleuths by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  August 26, 2017.

Public Health Dangers Loom In Harvey-Hit Areas

Public Health Dangers Loom In Harvey-Hit Areas by Associated Press.  August 28, 2017. 

Hospitals In Hurricane

Houston's Hospitals Treat Storm Victims And Become Victims Themselves by Sheri Fink and Alan Blinder.  The New York Times.  August 28, 2017. 

Drugs Demonstrates Role Of Inflammation, Even Without Reduction Of Cholesterol, In Heart Attacks

Drug Aimed At Inflammation May Lower Risk Of Heart Disease And Cancer by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  August 27, 2017. 

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Diverse Emotions--EmoDiversity--May Be Linked To Better Health

'Emotional Diversity' Is More Important Than Happiness by Crystal Ponti.  New York Magazzine.  August 18, 2017. 

Women--The Missing Voice In Health Care Debate

Often Missing In The Health Care Debate:  Women's Voices by Anna Gorman and Jenny Gold.  Kaiser Health News.  August 17, 2017. 

Drugs Aimed At Hospice Patients May Be Diverted To Family And Staff

Dying At Home In An Opioid Crisis:  Hospices Grapple With Stolen Meds by Melissa Bailey.   Kaiser Health News.  August 22, 2017. 

Even After Overdosing, Most Opioid Users Stay On Drugs

Most Opioid Users Stay On Drugs Even After Overdosing, Pa. Medicaid Study Finds by Dan Sapatkin.  Phillynews.com.  August 22, 2017. 

Source Of Abused Drugs: Veterinarian Offices

War On Opioids Moves To Veterinarians' Offices by Marsha Mercer.  Pew Charitable Trusts.  August 23, 2017. 

"Medicaid For All Who Are Into That Sort Of Thing"

Democrats' New Health-Care Plan:  Medicaid For All (Who Want It) by Eric Levitz. New York Magazine.  August 22, 2017. 

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Medical Education In the Era Of Alternative Facts

Medical Education In The Era Of Alternative Facts by Richard P. Wenzel, M.D.  New England Journal of Medicine.  August 17, 2017.

Treating Hateful Patients

After Charlottesville, A Doctor Reflects On Hateful Patients And His Own Biases by John Henning Schumann.  NPR.  August 16, 2017.

Bidirectional Relationship of Obesity And Depression Requires New Approaches

Obesity And Depression Are Entwined, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why by Shefali Luthra. Kaiser Health News.  August 11, 2017.

Software And Practice Integration Key To Start-Up's Effort To Fix Health Care Morass

A Start-Up Suggests A Fix To The Health Care Morass by Farhad Manjoo.  New York Times.  August 16, 2017.

Computer Security Risks Possible In Interaction of Biomolecular Information And The Computer System Analyzing it

Scientists Successfully Infiltrate Computer Using Malware Coded Into DNA by Thur Ong. The Verge.  August 11, 2017.

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Not Enough Patients For Clinical Trials For Cancer Drugs---Why?

A Cancer Conundrum:  Too Many Drug Trials, Too Few Patients by Gina Kolata.  New York Times.  August 12, 2017. 

Results Of Threat To Halt Subsidy Payments: 20 Percent Increase in Premiums Next Year

Trump Threat To Obamacare Would Send Premiums And Deficit Skyward by Robert Pear and Thomas Kaplan. New York Times.  August 15, 2017. 

'Fat But Fit' Is A Myth, Study Says

'Fat But Fit' Is A Myth, Study Says.  HealthDay News.  August 14, 2017. 

Amazon To Jump Into Health Care?

Goldman Sachs Breaks Down How Amazon Can Jump Into Health Care by Christina Farr.  CNBC.  August 11, 2017. 

Rand Corporation Survey On Working Conditions; Surprise Finding: Hostile Social Interactions Are Prevelant

Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great by April Fulton.  PR.  August 14, 2017. 

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

CO2 Level Increases Result In Decline In Nutritional Value Of Rice, Wheat, And Other Staple Crops

Millions May Face Protein Deficiency As A Result Of Human-Caused Carbon Dioxide Emissions.  Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health.  August 2, 2017. 

Trump Says He'll Beat Opioid Epidemic With Law-And-Order Approach

Trump Says He'll Beat Opioid Epidemic With Law-And-Order Approach by Brianna Ehley.  Politico.  August 8, 2017. 

Health Gap Widens Between Appalachia (Including North Georgia) And Rest Of The U.S.

Health Gap Widens Between Appalachia And Rest Of the U.S. by Vickie Connor.  Kaiser Health News.  August 7, 2017. 

Nanotechnology-Based Chip Used To Repair Injured Tissue Or Restore Function

Ohio State Researchers Develop Regenerative Medicine Breakthrough by Eileen Scahill.  Ohio State University.  August 7, 2017.