Lyft Hires Executive For Medical Appointments Transport Business

Lyft Just Hired A Hotshot Exec From McKesson To Run Its Growing Business Transporting Patients To Medical Appointments by Christina Farr.  CNBC.  November 28, 2018. 

Who Owns Your Medical Data? Most Likely Not You

Who Owns Your Medical Data?  Most Likely Not You by Steven Petrow.  The Washington Post.  November 25, 2018. 

Medicine As A Vocation? Medicine As A Profession?

Lessons For Medical Education From A Health Emergency 35, 000 Feet Over The Pacific by Richard Schwartzstein.  STAT.  November 29, 2018. 

Why Are More Americans Than Ever Dying From Drug Overdoses?

Why Are More Americans Than Ever Dying From Drug Overdoses?  By Niko Kommenda, Erin Durkin And Lydia Smears.  The Guardian.  November 29, 2018. 

Health Risks From The Changing Climate

Study Warns Of Cascading Health Risks From The Changing Climate by Somini Sengupta And Kendra Pierre-Louis.  The New York Times. 

For The Second Time In Three Years, U.S. Life Expectancy Has Ticked Downward

U.S. Life Expectancy Drops Amid 'Disturbing' Rise In Overdoses And Suicides by Colin Dwyer.  NPR.  November 29, 2018.

New Tick Species Capable Of Spreading Diseases To Humans Found In Southeast

CDC Warns Of New Tick Species Capable Of Spreading Diseases To Humans by John Bowden.  The Hill.  November 29, 2018. 

Healthcare Providers--Not Hackers--Leak More Of Your Data

Healthcare Providers--Not Hackers--Leak More Of Your Data.  Michigan State University/Science Daily.  November 20, 2018. 

Older Men And Women Who Have Exercised For Decades May Be Indistinguishable From 25-Year-Olds

Regular Exercise May Keep Your Body 30 Years 'Younger' by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  November 21, 2018, 

THe Future With An Unleashed Immune System

How Can We Unleash The Immune System?  by Denise Grady.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Humans Are Rapidly Improving Their Ability To Deceive

How Will We Outsmart A.I. Liars?  by Cade Metz.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Long Term Weight Loss Via Pill

Why Are We Still So Fat?  by Gina Kolata.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Obstacles And Opportunities In Alzheimer's

Will We Ever Cure Alzheimer's? by Pam Belluck.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Steven Pinker: The Enlightenment And Science Show The Way To Progress

Steven Pinker Thinks The Future Is Looking Bright by Karen Weintraub.  The New York Times.  November 19, 2018. 

Link Between Autoimmune, Heart Disease Explained In Mice

Link Between Autoimmune, Heart Disease Explained In Mice.  Washington University School Of Medicine/Science Daily.  November 8, 2018. 

Pain Can Be A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Pain Can Be A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.  University of Colorado At Boulder/Science Daily.  November 13, 2018. 

Precision Medicine For Cancer: Costs And Limitations

For Some Cancer Patients, Precision Medicine Offers Hope--And Possibility Of Financial Ruin by Liz Szabo.  Kaiser Health News/CNN.  November 14, 2018. 

DIY Drug Market In China

In China, Desperate Patients Smuggle Drugs.  Or Make Their Own by Sui-Lee Wee.  The New York Times.  November 11, 2018. 

The Frontier Of Xenotransplantation

20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting For Organs.  Can Pigs Save Them?  by Tom Clynes. The New York Times Magazine. 

Hospital Mergers: Patients Often Pay More; Quality Improvements Uncertain

When Hospitals Merge To Save Money, Patients Often Pay More by Reed Abelson.  The New York Times.  November 14, 2018. 

Cancer Replacing Heart Disease As The Leading Cause Of Death In The U,S,

Cancer Surpasses Heart Disease As Leading Cause Of Death In Many US Counties by Susan Scutti.  CNN.  November 12, 2018. 

Drug-Free Approach To Pain Management

Drug-Free Approach To Pain Management.  Harvard Men's Health Watch.  November 2018. 

Another Health Problem To Worry About: Health Anxiety Disorder

Always Worried About Your Health?  You May Be Dealing With Health Anxiety Disorder.  Harvard Medical School.  September 2018. 

"Prehabilitation" May Improve Heart Surgery Recovery

"Prehabilitation" May Improve Heart Surgery Recovery.  Harvard Heart Letter.  November 2018. 

Medical Scribes Let The Doctor Focus On You

Medical Scribes Let The Doctor Focus On You by Adam Landman.  Harvard Medical School.  November 7, 2018. 

HHS Report: FDA Isn't Doing Enough About Hacking Of Medical Devices

FDA Isn't Doing Enough To Prevent Medical Device Hacking, HHS Report Says by Naomi Thomas.   CNN.  November 1, 2018. 

Three Republican States Supported Ballot Measures To Extend Medicaid Benefits

A Winning Idea:  Medicaid Expansion Prevails In Idaho, Nebraska And Utah by Alison Kodjak.  NPR.  November 7, 2018. 

Small Study: Artificial Intelligence Tool Seems To Help With Early Detection Of Alzheimer's

Alzheimer's:  Artificial Intelligence Predicts Onset by Catharine Paddock PhD.  Medical News Today.  November 7, 2018. 

The Often Role Of Fascia In Chronic Pain

The Real Science Behind Fascia Ailments by Dr. Melina Jampolis.  CNN.  November 8, 2018. 

Stress, Memory Loss, And Brain Shrinkage

Stress Might Lead To Memory Loss And Brain Shrinkage, Study Says by Sandee LaMotte.  CNN.  october 25, 2018. 

Same-Sex Couple Makes Medical History By Physically Carrying The Same Embryo

Same-Sex Couple Makes Medical History By Physically Carrying The Same Embryo by Danielle Cinone.  Medical Xpress.  October 31, 2018. 

Alarm As Rural Hospitals Continue To Close In States That Refuse Medicaid Expansion

A Sense Of Alarm As Rural Hospitals Keep Closing by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  October 29, 2018. 

This Is Your Brain On Hate Speech

The Neuroscience Of Hate Speech by Richard A. Friedman.  The New York Times.  October 31, 2018. 

A Voter's Guide To Health Care

A Voter's Guide To Health Care.  The New York Times.  October 31, 2018.