Study Finds Relationship Between Pollution And Cognition

Pollution May Dim Thinking Skills, Study In China Suggests by Mike Ives.  The New York Times.  August 29, 2018. 

Russian Bots Promote Division About Vaccines

As If Bots Weren't Bad Enough Already, Now They're Anti-Vaccine by Editorial Board.  The Washington Post.  August 28, 2018. 

Shocking Increase In STDs Related To Lack Of Federal Funding Increases

Sexually Transmiotted Diseases Surge For The 4th Straight Year, CDC Reports by Ken Alltucker.  USA TODAY. 

More Gun Deaths Outside Of War Than In It

Gun-Related Homicides, Suicides Kill More People Than War, Study Says by Jen Christensen.  CNN.  Jen Christensen.  August 28, 2018. 

Hospitals Getting Into The Housing And Real Estate Business

Why Hospitals Are Getting Into The Real Estate Business by Paul Chisholm.  Shots/NPR.  August 19, 2018. 

Trump Congressional Districts Highest For Opioid Prescriptions

These Congressional Districts Had The Highest Opioid Prescription Rates in 2016 by Katelyn Newman.  July 19, 2018. 

Analysis Of Hospital Bills Reveals Opaque Pricing And Little Relation To Costs

How Efficiency Experts Lowered Health Care Prices At One U.S. Hospital by Lucas Laursen.  Fortune.  August 22, 2018. 

Americans Rig Their Own Safety Nets

Priced Out Of Health Insurance, Americans Rig Their Own Safety Nets by John Tozzi.  Bloomberg.  August 22, 2018. 

Keeping Tooth Alive After Root Canal

Biomaterial Could Keep Tooth Alive After Root Canal.  American Chemical Society/Science.  August 22, 2018. 

"Food As Medicine" Movement Seeks Bigger Kitchens

If Food Is Medicine, These Are The Labs by Lisa Prevost.  The New York Times.  August 21, 2018. 

Air Pollution Is Shortening Your Life.

Air Pollution Is Shortening Your Life.  Here's How Much. by Somini Sengupta.  The New York Times.  August 22, 2018. 

Low-Tech, High Touch Treatment For Drug-Dependent Babies

Babies Dependent On Opioids Need Touch, Not Tech by Alex Smith.  Kaiser Health News.  August 20, 2018. 

Amazon New Hire: Bringing Technology and Innovation To Implementation In Health Care

Amazon's Latest Health Care Hire Is A Master Of Bringing Technology Into The Clinic by Casey Ross.  STAT.  August 21, 2018. 

Religious Conservatives Impact Trump Administration Health Policies

Religious Conservatives' Ties To Trump Officials Pay Off In AIDS Policies, Funding by Marisa Taylor.  Kaiser Health News.  August 22, 2018. 

6 To 10 Metric Tons Of Plastic Contact Lenses End Up In Wastewater Every Year

Millions Of Contact Lenses Are Ending Up In The Water by Irina Ivanova.  CBS News.  August 21, 2018. 

Many Americans Smell Odors That Are Not There

That Stinks!  One American In 15 Smells Odors That Aren't There.  National Institute On Deafness And Other Communication Disorders

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Cost-Burden of Management And Nonclinical Worker Wages Rises In Hospitals.

Wage Gap Between Hospital Executives And Doctors Is Widening, Study Finds.  Wolters Kluwer Health/Science Daily.  August 14, 2018. 

More Weight Loss; More Metabolic Health Benefit

Weight Loss:  Surprising Scale Of Health Benefits For Biggest Losers.  University Of Texas Health Science Center/Science Daily.  August 14, 2018. 

Unexpected Effects Of Climate Change: Worse Food Safety, More Car Wrecks

Unexpected Effects Of Climate Change:  Worse Food Safety, More Car Wrecks by Susan Scutti.  CNN.  August 13, 2018. 

Violent Crime As An Infectious Disease: Clues To Containment

Violent Crime Is Like Infectious Disease--And We Know How To Stop It Spreading by Samira Shackle.  CNN.  August 15, 2018. 

Why Is Cancer So Rare In Elephants?

Why Is Cancer So Rare In Elephants?  They Might Thank Their 'Zombie Gene' by Melissa Healy. Los Angeles Times.  August 15, 2018. 

Walk Every Thirty Minutes To Stave Off Brain Decline

Why Sitting May Be Bad For Your Brain by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  August 15, 2018. 

"Desirability" Study Reveals Divergent Age Peaks For Men And Women

For Online Daters, Women Peak At 18 While Men Peak At 50, Study Finds. Oy by Maya Salam.  The New York Times.  August 15, 2018. 

Some Find Limits On Procedures At Expanding Catholic Hospitals

As Catholic Hospitals Expand, So Do Limits On Some Procedures by Katie Hafner.  The New York Times.  August 10, 2018. 

Tool Developed To Forecast Disease Risk By Scanning Millions Of Mutations

Clues To Your Health Are Hidden At 6.6 Million Spots In Your DNA by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  August 13, 2018. 

Belly Fat Associated With Cognitive Impairment In Older Adults

Measure Of Belly Fat In Older Adults Is Linked With Cognitive Impairment.  Trinity College Dublin/Science Daily.  August 1, 2018. 

How To Read A Food Label

How To Read A Food Label by Sophie Egan.  The New York Times. 

Why Shopping Foir Health Care By Price Does Not Work

Shopping For Health Care Simply Doesn't Work.  So What Might?  by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  July 30, 2018. 

Cutting Back On Physical Activity Has Consequences

Take A Vacation From Exercise?  Your Body May Not Thank You by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  August 1, 2018. 

Short Term Health Insurance Carry Cost And Coverage Risks

'Short Term' Health Insurance?  Up To 3 Years Under New Trump Policy by Robert Pear.  The New York Times.  August 1, 2018. 

Gut Bacteria That Function In The Metabolism Of Carbs May Hold Key To Weight Loss

Can't Lose Weight?  Your Gut Bacteria Could Be To Blame, According To Study by Kashmira Gander.  Newsweek.  August 1, 2018. 

"Switch" Identified That Produces Either Muscle Growth Or Endurance In Exercise/Relation To Type 2 Diabetes

Muscle "Switch" May Control The Benefits Of Exercise.  Joslin Diabetes Center/Medical Xpress.  August 2, 2018.