Using Genetic Information From Millions, Researchers Predict Personalized Response To Drug therapy

Personalizing Drug Development Using Big Data by Alison Mairena.  MedicalXpress.  August 28, 2019.

Screens And Teen Mental Health

The Scientific Debate Over Teens, Screens And Mental Health by Anya Kamenetz.  NPR. August 27, 2019. 

New Blood Test For Concussions Better Than Standard Imaging

New Blood Test Detects Concussion Better Than Standard Imaging by Michelle Cortez.  Bloomberg.  August 26, 2019, 

Reasonable Chance That The US Will Lose Its Status As Eliminating Measles

The US Eliminated Measles In 2000.  The Current Outbreak Could Change That by Elizabeth Cohen.  August 28, 2019. 

BMJ: There Is Evidence Of Benefit In Only Just Over 40 Percent Of Medical Treatments

Why Doctors Still Offer Treatments That May Not Help by Austin Frakt.  The New York Times.  August 26, 2019. 

Even A Little Movement Is Associated With A Longer Life

For A Longer Life, Get Moving.  Even A Little by Gretchen Reynolds.  The New York Times.  August 28, 2019. 

Slowing Heart Disease Progress: Obesity Is Likely To Blame

Heart Disease Progress Is Slowing Or Stalling, Study Says.  Obesity Is Likely To Blame by Lindsey Bever.  The Washington Post.  August 27, 2019. 

Flavonoid-Rich Diet Associated With Lesser Likelihood Of Dying From Cancer And Heart Disease

Flavonoid-Rich Diet Protects Against Cancer And Heart Disease, Study Finds.  Edith Cowan University/Science Daily.  August 13, 2019.

Trump Administration Sued Over Poor Medical Care In Immigration Centers

Trump Administration Sued Over Poor Medical Care In Immigration Centers by Renuka Rayasam.  Politico.  August 19, 2019.

Large Group Medical Practices Helps Give Doctors More Work-Life Balance

How Medicine Became The Stealth Family-Friendly Profession by Claire Cain Miller.  The New York Times.  August 21, 2019.

Fasting Improves Inflammatory Diseases, Mount Sinai Researchers Find

Researchers Discover That Fasting Reduces Inflammation And Improves Chronic Inflammatory Diseases by The Mount Sinai Hospital/Medical Xpress.  August 22, 2019.

Innovative Physician Recruitment For Rural Hospitals

Creative Recruiting Helps Rural Hospitals Overcome Doctor Shortages by Uyki Noguchi.  NPR.  August 15, 2019.

Survey Of Pain And Its Effects

Poll:  Nearly 1 In 5 Americans Says Pain Often Interferes With Life  by Scott Hensley.  NPR.  August 21, 2019.

Wisdom Teeth Removal Is Contributing To The Opioid Crisis, Experts Warn

Wisdom Teeth Removal Is Contributing To The Opioid Crisis, Experts Warn by CBS News.  August 21, 2019.

USPSTF: Doctors Are Recommended To Screen All Adult Patients For Illicit Drug Use

Screen All Adult Patients For Drug Abuse, National Panel Urges by Jan Hoffman.  The New York Times.  August 13, 2019, 

Less Than 1% Of All Yearly Gun-Related Homicides

Trump Said 'Mental Illness And Hatred Pulls The Trigger' In Mass Shootings.  Experts Beg To Differ by Kristen Jordan Shamus.  Detroit Free Press/USA Today.  August 10, 2019. 

Expansion Of Short-Term Health Plans As A Substitute For ACA

Column:  Why The Short-Term Health Plans Trump Favor Are Cheap:  They Shortchange You On Care by Michael Hiltzik.  Los Angeles Times.  August 12, 2019. 

Georgia Obamacare Prices Stabilize As Market Adds Insurers

Georgia Obamacare Prices Stabilize As Market Adds Insurers by Ariel Hart,  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  August 12, 2019. 

Artificial Intelligence In Medical Diagnostics

Intelligence In Medical Diagnostics, 2019 Research Report-ResearchAnd Markets.com.   Business Wire.  August 14, 2019. 

1 In 7 Internal Medicine Residents Are Bullied

1 In 7 Internal Medicine Residents Are Bullied by Steven Ross Johnson.  Modern Healthcare.  August 13, 2019. 

Plant-Based Diets: Impact On Strokes And Heart Attacks

This  Type Of Diet Could Help You Avoid Strokes, Heart Attacks, Study Says by Najja Parker.  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  August 12, 2019. 

Stress And Modern Life: How To Stress-Proof

Why Stress Is Dangerous-And How To Avoid Its Effects by Mithu Storoni.  BBC.  August 14, 2019.

Trust In Scientists Is Rising, Poll Finds

Trust In Scientists Is Rising, Poll Finds by Richard Harris.  NPR.  August 2, 2019.

Ideology And Mass Shootings

What Role Does Ideology Play In Mass Shootings?  by Jenny Jarvie.  Los Angeles Times.  August 7, 2019. 

What Experts Know About People Who Commit Mass Shootings

What Experts Know About People Who Commit Mass Shootings by Benedict Carey.  The New York Times.  August 5, 2019. 

Commonly Used Scopes Pose Significant Sterilization And Infection Risks

Why Are These Medical Instruments So Tough To Sterilize?  by Roni Caryn Rabin.  The New York Times. 

Climate Change Threatens World's Food Supply, United Nations Warns

Climate Change Threatens World's Food Supply United Nations Warns by Christoper Flavelle.  The New York Times.  August 8, 2019.