Vegetarian And Mediterranean Diet May Be Equally Effective In Preventing Heart Disease

Vegetarian And Mediterranean Diet May Be Equally Effective In Preventing Heart Disease.  American Heart Association/Science Daily.  February 26, 2018. 

New Urine Test May Measure Aging Better Than Chronological Age

Simple Urine Test Could Measure How Much Our Body Has Aged.  Frontiers/Science Daily.  February 27, 2018. 

Opening Mental Hospitals Unlikely To Prevent Mass Shootings, Experts Say

Opening Mental Hospitals Unlikely To Prevent Mass Shootings, Experts Say by Benedict Carey. 

Health Consensus: Sneeze/Cough Into Your Elbow

Sneeze Into Your Elbow, Not Your Hand. Please.  by Daniel Victor.  The New York Times.  February 27, 2018. 

F.D.A. To Expand Medication-Assisted Therapy For Opioid Addicts

F.D.A. To Expand Medication-Assisted Therapy for Opioid Addicts by Sheila Kaplan.  The New York Times.  February 25, 2018. 

Trump Proposal Boosts Skimpy Insurance Plans, Undercutting Obamacare

Trump Proposal Boosts Skimpy Insurance Plans, Again Undercutting Obamacare by Paul Demko.  Politico.  February 20, 2018. 

Dental Inequality: Health, Job, Medicaid Impacts

How Dental Inequality Hurts Americans by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  February 19, 2018. 

The Key To Weighty Loss Is Diet Quality, Not Quantity, A New Study Finds

The Key To Weight Loss Is Diet Quality, Not Quantity, A New Study Finds by Anahad O'Connor.  The New York Times.  February 20, 2018, 

What Does It Take For Tumors To Be Recognized by Immune System

Doctors Said Immunotherapy Would Not Cure Her Cancer.  They Were Wrong by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  February 19, 2018. 

America's Unique Gun Violence Problem, In 17 Maps And Charts

America's Unique Gun Violence Problem, Explained In 17 Maps And Charts by German Lopez.  February 15, 2017.

Benefits Of Stair Climbing For Postmenopausal Women (Any Everyone Else)

Climb Stairs To Lower Blood Pressure And Strengthen Leg Muscles.  The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)/Science Daily.  February 14, 2018. 

African Matabele Ants Provide "Medical" Care To Wounded Ants; Triage Is Part Of System

Medical Care For Wounded Ants.  University of Wurzburg/Science Daily.  February 13, 2018. 

Planned Parenthood Goes On The Offense

Planned Parenthood Announces Nationwide Push For Abortion, Birth Control Legislation by Jessie Hellman.  The Hill.  February 13, 2018. 

Religion And Medical Treatment

'Inoculate Yourself With The Word Of God':  How Religion Can Limit Medical Treatment by Sandee LaMotte.  CNN.  February 7, 2017. 

Significant Overlap Of Genetic Signature for Autism, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, Depression And Alcoholism

Psychiatric Illnesses Share Similar Gene Activity, Study Suggests by Mark Lieber.  CNN.  February 13, 2018. 

Ultraprocessed Foods Linked To Cancer Risk

Ultra-Processed Foods Linked To Increased Cancer Risk by Jen Christensen.  CNN.  February 14, 2018. 

Blood Test To Detect Concussions Approved by FDA

First Blood Test To Detect Concussions Is Approved by Sheila Kaplan and Ken Belson.  The New York Times.  February 14, 2018. 

Aging Immune System May Better Explain Cancer Risk Than Genetic Mutations

Aging Immune System May Explain Age-Related Cancer Risk Increase.  University of Dundee/Science Daily.  February 5, 2018. n

Thirdhand Smoke Persists For Months In Walls, Furniture, Carpets In A Study Of A Casino

Thirdhand Smoke Lingers In Casino Month After Smoking Ban.  San Diego State University/Science Daily.  February 8, 2018. 

Category Cluster Recall Improves Eye Witness Memory

New Technique Boosts Eyewitness Recall.  James Cook University/Science Daily.  February 7, 2017. 

New Methodology Reveals That Drowsy Drivers Are Bigger Risk Factor Than Previously Thought

Drowsy Driving Is A Factor In Almost 10% Of Crashes, Study Finds by Erin Gabriel.  CNN.  February 8, 2018. 

Medicaid Transportation At Risk With State Waivers

No Car, No Care?  Medicaid Transportation At Risk In Some States by JoNel Aleccia.  Kaiser Health News.  January 30, 2018. 

ACA Enrollments Largely Stable Despite Efforts To Kill The Program; 2019 May Be Grim However

Despite Changes That Undermined ACA Enrollment, Marketplaces 'Remarkably Stable' by Julie Appleby.  Kaiser Health News.  February 7, 2018. 

Fetal Alcohol Disorders Affect 1.1 to 5 Percent Of Children

Far More U.S. Children Than Previously Thought May Have Fetal Alcohol Disorders by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  February 6, 2018. 

80% Cut Of CDC Overseas Epidemic Prevention Funds Could Pose Grave Danger To US

Cuts To CDC Epidemic Programs Will Endanger Americans Former Chief Says by Wayne Drash.  CNN.  February 5, 2017. 

If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care For The Elderly?

If Immigrants Are Pushed Out, Who Will Care For the Elderly?  by Paula Span.  The New York

Plant-Based Milks Rated

Nutritionally-Speaking, Soy Milk Is Best Plant-Based Milk.  McGill University/Science Daily.  January 29, 2018. 

Who's Still Smoking?

Who's Still Smoking:  Report Highlights Population Still At Risk.  American Cancer Society/Science Daily.  January 31, 2017. 

Across Global 35% Of Women Have Experienced Physical Or Sexual Violence

Sexual Harassment:  How It Stands Around The Globe by Meera Senthilingam.  CNN.  November 29, 2017. 

India Wants To Give Half A Billion People Free Health Care

India Wants To Give Half A Billion People Free Health Care by Vindu Goel and Hari Kumar.  The New York Times.  February 1, 2017. 

Conflicts Of Interests Does In C.D.C. Director, Former Georgia Public Heaslth Chief

Brenda Fitzgerald, C.D.C. Director, Resigns Over Tobacco And Other Investments by Sheila Kaplan.  The New York Times.  January 31, 2018. 

Doubts That Amazon And Friends Can Transform Health Care

Can Amazon And Friends Handle Health Care?  There's Reason To Doubt by Margot Sanger-Katz and Reed Abelson.  The New York times.  January 30, 2018. 

Artificial Intelligence Creates Uniquely Chinese Solutions In Healthcare

Amazon Wants To Disrupt Health Care In America.  In China, Tech Giants Already Have by Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur.  The New York Times.  January 31, 2017.