Millennials More Likely To Use Lifestyle Changes Rather Than Opioids To Confront Pain

Millennials Prefer Healthy Habits, Less Likely To Choose Opioids To Manage Pain.  American Society Of Anesthesiologists/Science Daily.  August 30, 2017. 

Planning Brain Tumor Removal To Preserve Musical Ability

Patient Plays Saxophone While Surgeons Remove Brain Tumor.  University of Rochester Medical Center/Science Daily.  August 30, 2017. 

Trump Administration Expected To Do The Minimum Necessary To Comply With Health Law

Trump Administration Wants To Stabilize Health Markets But Won't Say How by Robert Pear.  New York Times.  August 30, 2017. 

Improving The Entire Health Care System By Improving The Status Of Care Providers

Home Health Care:  Shouldn't It Be Work Worth Doing?  by Eduardo Porter.  The New York Times.  August 29, 2017. 

Offshore Human Testing Circumvents FDA And IRB Safety Protocols

Offshore Human Testing Of Herpes Vaccine Stokes Debate Over U.S. Safety Rules by Marisa Taylor.  Kaiser Health News.  August 28, 2017.

Mayo Clinic Holistic Approach Provides Alternative To Opioids For Some

May Pain Expert:  Holistic Approach Helps Patients Ditch Opioids by Michelle Andrews.  Kaiser Health News.  August 29, 2017. 

With Repeal Efforts Stalled, New Healthcare Ideas Receive Buzz

5 Outside-The-Box Ideas For Fixing the Individual Insurance Market by Julie Rovner.  Kaiser Health News.  August 30, 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. 

Women Have More Muscular Endurance Than Men: Study

Women Have More Muscle Endurance Than Men:  Study by Luan Chan.  Tech Times.  August 26, 2017. 

Confronting Malaria And Resistance To Antimalaria Drugs

Novartis Exec:  We Just Got One Step Closer To Winning The Fight Against Malaria by Vas Narasimhan.  Fortune.  August 24, 2017. 

Why Some People Never Evacuate

Why Some People Never Evacuate During A Hurricane, According To A Psychologist by Brian Resnick.  Vox.  August 25, 2017. 

Hospital Siege Offers Counterterrorism Lessons

Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Siege Offers Counterterrorism Lessons by Al Baker.  New York Times.  August 24, 2017. 

Opioids Lead To Return Of Syphilis

Hunting A Killer:  Sex, Drugs And The Return Of Syphilis by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  August 24, 2017. 

5 Looming Threats To Obamacare And Medicaid

Not Out Of The Woods Yet:  5 Looming Threats To Obamacare And Medicaid by Alice Ollstein.  Talkingpoints Memo.  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. 

Latino Outreach For Affordable Care Act Signups Suspended? Behind Schedule? Abandoned?

Exclusive:  Trump Admin Abandons Latino Outreach For Obamacare Sign-Ups by Alice Ollstein.  Talking Points Memo.  August 10, 2017. 

1 in 4 People Injured Themselves While Grooming Pubic Hair

Snip, Snip, Ouch:  Pubic Hair Grooming Injuries May Be More Common Than You Think by Sara G. Miller.  Live Science.  August 16, 2017. 

Guns Play Oversize Role In Rural Suicides

Guns Play Oversize Role In Rural Suicides by Nicholas Bakalar.  New York Times.  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.

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. 

Nearly 1 In 5 Hospice Patients Discharged While Still Alive

Nearly 1 in 5 Hospice Patients Discharged While Still Alive by Ina Jaffe.  NPR.  August 11, 2017. 

Study: Almonds Associatd With Higher HDL Levels And Improved Functionality

Can Eating Almonds Raise 'Good' Cholesterol?  Penn State/Futurity.  August 11, 2017. 

Why Married Men Gain Weight

Why Married Men Gain Weight by Melissa Matthews.  Medical Daily/MSN.  Auust 9, 2017. 

Medicaid Matters To Everyone

Why Medicaid Matters To You by Sharona Hoffman.  RealClearHealth .  August 9, 2017. 

Thicker Carotid Artery Walls Associated With Social And Economic Conditions

Disadvantaged Kids May Be At Higher Risk For Heart Disease Later In Life. American Heart Association/MedicalXpress.  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. 

Questions About Insurance Subsidies Contributes To Blue Cross Decision In Georgia

Blue Cross Agrees To Stay in Counties Where There's No Other Exchange Option by Andy Miller.  Georgia Health News.  August 7, 2017. 

Medicine Is Getting More Precise...For White People

Medicine Is Getting More Precise...For White People by Rob Arthur.  FiveThirtyEight.  August 2, 2017. 

Poor Appetite And Food Intake In Older Adults

Poor Appetite And Food Intake In Older Adults.  American Geriatrics Society/Science Daily.  August 1, 2017.

Short Answers To Hard Questions About The Opioid Crisis Plus A County Map

Short Answers To Hard Questions About The Opioid Crisis by Josh Katz.  The New York Times.  August 3, 2017. 

Suicides In Law Enforcement: More Than Gunfire And Traffic Accidents Combined

Another Sheriff's Deputy Commits Suicide.  His Boss Wants People To Talk About It This Time. by Amy B. Wang. 

Marijuana Replacing Over-The-Counter Medicine

A New Survey Shows Marijuana Is Replacing Over-The-Counter Medicine by Dan Seitz.  Uproxx.  August 3, 2017. 

For The First Time, Genes Edited To Repair Disease-Causing Mutation

In Breakthrough, Scientists Edit A Dangerous Mutation From Genes In Human Embryos by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  August 2, 2017. 

A Dangerous, 'Silent Reservoir' For Gonorrhea: The Throat

A Dangerous, 'Silent Reservoir' For Gonorrhea:  The Throat by Aneri Pattani.  The New York Times.  July 31, 2017. 

Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Their Ability To Withstand A Global Pandemic

Only Six Nations Have Evaluated Readiness For Global Pandemic by Donald G. McNeil Jr.  The New York Times.  July 31, 2017.