- Anti-Obesity Is Not the New Homophobia
- Big Government, Small Bellies: What Japan Can Teach Us About Fighting Fat
- New York health board approves ban on large sodas
- Obesity more common among rural residents than urban counterparts, study finds
- Doctor Who fan who dropped from 17st to 10st spends the money he would have blown on junk food on a £2k Tardis
- Living Larger By Downsizing: How Radio's Big Boy Dropped 300 Pounds
- Obese woman loses weight through marathon sex
- Obamacare Has Saved Consumers $2.1 Billion--And 3.6 million more people are covered.
- Even Evangelicals Sorta Kinda Like Obamacare Now
- Republican Officials Work 'Under The Radar' To Implement Obamacare In Their States
- Aware of 'no options,' woman dies fighting for medical coverage--"Except there were options. The Affordable Care Act, which takes full effect in 2014, was supposed to save people like Elder (with pre-existing conditions and no medical coverage) in the interim by way of high-risk pools, also known as the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan or PCIP."
- Health Care Reform Beyond Obamacare NYT
- Challenged on Medicare, G.O.P. Loses Ground--"President Obama and his campaign are arguing that the Romney-Ryan approach to Medicare would leave older Americans vulnerable to rising health care costs." NYT
- Tweeting for Student Health Care Coverage NYT
- Mexico chalks up success in health-care reforms
- Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor
- US court sides with gene patents
- How an Indian Patent Case Could Shape the Future of Generic Drugs--"[T]he Indian Supreme Court will hear a landmark case that could limit Indian companies' right to make inexpensive generic drugs."
- Canada: Ad for herbal whooping cough remedy ordered retracted
- A virus that kills cancer: the cure that's waiting in the cold--"Sitting in a refrigerator in a Swedish laboratory is what promises to be a cheap and effective cancer treatment. So why are the trials to bring it to market not going ahead?"
- Dirty Medicine--"How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive."
- Doctors, others billing Medicare at higher rates
- The Bullying Culture of Medical School NYT
- 'Wall of Shame' exposes 21M medical record breaches--"Notification, reporting part of new rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act."
- Hospitals 'Unaccountable,' says surgeon in new book
- Crisis looms as industry lights up Asia--"The west is winning the smoking war, but in our region, the fight has just begun."
- Australia: Big tobacco loses High Court battle over plain packaging
- Tasmania considers cigarette ban for anyone born after 2000--"The Australian state of Tasmania is considering a ban on cigarette sales to anyone born after the year 2000 in an attempt to create a smoking-free generation." But there's already been some opposition to the idea months ago.
- Costa Rica tries to go smoke-free--"Congress approved sweeping smoking bans. Philip Morris and British American Tobacco are not happy."
- Tobacco on Pace to Kill 1 Billion People This Century
- Fake cigs: Human excrement, asbestos, dead flies and billions in lost tax revenues
- Study: Electronic cigarettes do not damage the heart
- The Black Death is dead (thanks to evolution)
- US teen invents advanced cancer test using Google
- Resistance to Backup Tuberculosis Drugs Increases
- New immune-system disease found in Asians; causes AIDS-like symptoms in people without HIV
- Sri Lanka kidney disease blamed on farm chemicals
- WHO: Ebola outbreak in DRC risks spreading to towns
- Man steals phone from Ebola patient at Uganda hospital, gets Ebola--Karma.
- 87-year-old doctor charges $5 for a visit
- Vatican newspaper gives seal of approval to bald Barbie
- Alzheimer's Disease: Dutch Village Doubles as Nursing Home
- The 6 Most Terrifying Medical Malpractice Cases Ever
- Man dies after doc takes lunch during kidney op
- The Hidden Truths about Calories
- Eating egg yolks as 'bad as smoking'--"Without further study, there is no firm evidence that egg yolks are as bad for you as smoking."
- Sitting straight 'bad for backs'
- Blast from the Past: Student finds toilet water cleaner than ice at fast food restaurants
- Yoga mat for sale. Used once. $1
