Mother's Stress During Pregnancy Changes Child Brain Neural Connectivity

Prenatal Stress Changes Brain Connectivity In-Utero.  Cognitive Neuroscience Society/Science Daily.  March 26, 2018. 

Stroke Treatment Drug--Help Or Harm?: How A Controversy Plays Out In Patient Care

For Many Strokes, There's An Effectiove Treatment.  Why Aren't Some Doctors Offering It?  by Gina Kolata.  New York Times.  March 26, 2018. 

Eating Before And After Exercise

The Best Way To Eat Before And After Exercise by Consumer Reports.  Washington Post.  March 26, 2018. 

Mice Study: Time Restricted Feeding May Aid Weight Loss.

Timing Your Meals May Help With Weight Loss--It Seems To Do So In Mice.  Washington Post/Times Picayune.  March 27, 2018. 

Newly-Discovered Organ May Aid The Spread Of Cancer

Newly-Discovered Human Organ May Help Explain How Cancer Spreads by Jessica Hamzelou.  March 27, 2018. 

Antiobiotic Use Worldwide: 42 Billion Doses A Year; Superbugs Flourish

Surge In Antibiotics Is A Boon For Superbugs by Jason Beaubien.  NPR.  March 26, 2018. 

What Happens To Fat When You Lose It?

Where Fat Goes When You Lose Weight by Ruben Meerman and Andrew Brown.  CNN.  March 26, 2018. 

Inflammation, Driven By Obesity, Reduces The Number of Taste Buds On Tongues Of Mice

How Obesity Dulls The Sense Of Taste.  PLOS/Science Daily.  March 20, 2018. 

Large Study: Ideal B.M.I Range For Heart Health

A 'Sweet Spot' For Heart Health by Nicholas Bakalar.  The New York Times.  March 15, 2018. 

Separation Of Dental Care From The Rest Of Healthcare: The Case Of Medicare

Medicare Doesn't Equal Dental Care.  That Can Be A Big Problem by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  March 19, 2018. 

Undetected Or Mystery Disorders May Be Result Of Mutations Of Known Disorders

What's Behind Many Mystery Ailments?  Genetic Mutations, Study Finds by Carl Zimmer.  The New York Times.  March 15, 2018. 

Funding And Research Results: The Alcohol Industry And The Study of Moderte Drinking

Federal Agency Courted Alcohol Industry To Fund Study On Benefits Of Moderate Drinking by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times.  March 17, 2018. 

Healthcare Entrepreneur Agrees To Settlement: Company Is "Silicon Valley Hubris In Force"

Elizabeth Homes, Theranos C.E.O. And Silicon Valley Star, Accused Of Fraud by Katie Thomas and Reed Abelson.  March 14, 2018. 

Gaining Muscle In Late 90s? How Is That Possible?

How To Build Muscle As Age Tears It Down by Dr. Melina B. Jampolis.  CNN.  March 6, 2018. 

Study Of Representative Population: Death From Lead Exposure May Be 10 Times Higher Than Thought

US Deaths From Lead Exposure 10 Times Higher Than Thought, Study Suggests by Mark Lieber.  CNN.  March 12, 2018. 

Forming Templates To Respond To Future Epidemics

World Health Organization Gets Ready For 'Disease X' by Susan Scutti.  CNN.  March 12, 2018. 

Something Else That Can Go Wrong

Doctors Stunned To Find Huge Air Pocket Where Part Of Man's Brain Should Be By Nicola Davis.  The Guardian.  March 15, 2018. 

Administrative Costs, Pharmaceuticals, Physician Salaries Identified As Drivers Of Higher U.S. Costs In International Study

Key Drivers Of High US Healthcare Spending Identified.  Harvard T.H. Chan School Of Public Health/Medical Xpress.  March 13, 2018. 

The Health-Care Gap Between Red And Blue America

The Health-Care Gap Between Red And Blue America by Ronald Brownstein.  The Atlantic.  March 8, 2018.

Amazon Offers Prime Discount To Medicaid Recipients

Amazon Offers Prime Discount For Medicaid Recipients by Nick Wingfield.  The New York Times.  March 7, 2018. 

10 Best Foods For Your Heart

10 Best Foods For Your Heart by Sandee LaMotte.  CNN.  March 7, 2018. 

22-Year-Old Develops 3-D Maps To Distinguish Cardiac Chest Pain Versus Non-Cardiac Chest Pain

22-Year-Old's 3-D Scanner Can Diagnoses Heart Diseases In 90 Seconds by Ryan Prior.  CNN.  March 8. 2018. 

Shape Of Ears Impact How We Hear

How The Shape Of Your Ears Affects What You Hear by Veronique Greenwood.  The New York Times.  March 6, 2018. 

Large Study Results: Self-Testing Of Blood Pressure Resulted In Better Results

The Best Way To Monitor Your Blood Pressure?  Do It Yourself by Nicholas Bakalar.  The New York Times.  March 6, 2018. 

Alternative Medicines For Children: Patient/Doctor Dialogue

Talking To Your Child's Doctor About Alternative Medicine by Amitha Kalaichandran, M.D. Sunita Vohra, M.D. And Roger Zemek, M.D.  The New York Times.  March 6, 2018. 

More Asylums: Pro And Con

Trump Wants More Asylums--And Some Psychiatrists Agree by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  March 5, 2018. 

400 Opioid-Related Lawsuits Settled All At Once?

Can This Judge Solve The Opioid Crisis? by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  March 5, 2018. 

Gene-Environment Interaction Analyzed To Identify Areas Of Genome Assoiated With Blood Pressure

Cigarette Smoking Behavior Helps Identify Genes That Regulate Blood Pressure.  NIH/National Heart, Lung And Blood Institute.  March 1, 2018. 

Incivility Between Women In The Workplace

Incivility At Work:  Is 'Queen Bee Syndrome' Getting Worse?  University of Arizona/Science Daily.  March 1, 2018. 

Preliminary Study: Diabetes Is Five Separate Diseases Each Requiring Different Treatments

Diabetes Is Actually Five Separate Diseases, Research Suggests by James Gallagher.  BBC News.  March 2, 2018. 

Surgery Centers Are Not Hospitals: Risk Implications For Patients

As  Surgery Centers Boom, Patients Are Paying With Their Lives by Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News, and Mark Alesia, USA Today Network.  March 2, 2018. 

Ride-Hailing Services Work To Solve No-Show Problem

Uber Starts Offering rides To The Doctor by Tom Murphy.  Associated Press.  March 1, 2018.