- The New Bird Flu, and How to Read the News About It
- Cancer patients in Canada got weak doses of chemo drugs
- Health Canada recalls birth control pill Alysena, after finding out some packages were sold with 2 weeks of placebos instead of 1
- Pregnant Woman Gives Birth In Radisson Edwardian Hotel Bathroom After London Hospital Turned Her Away
- Chinese parents can sue adult kids — for not visiting enough—"With China’s elderly population soaring, the government is trying to limit the cost of caring for overlooked seniors."
- As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester—"The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the agency that many Americans love to hate and industry calls overzealous, has largely ignored the slow, silent killers that claim the most lives." NYT
- The Man who Could Bring you back from the Dead
- Don Ritchie, Angel of The Gap - who helped save 500 people from suicide - dies at 85
- 'Man with the golden arm' James Harrison saves 2 million babies in half a century of donating rare type of blood
- As she nears death, Chinese hail woman who saved 30 babies from trash
- Argentine mom rescues hundreds of sex slaves during long, failed hunt for kidnapped daughter
- Taxis light up remote airstrip in Peru for medivac flight
- Obama Announces $100M Research Fund To Map The Human Brain
- Brain-Training Games Don't Actually Make You Smarter
- The volatile chemistry in the business brain—"Far from being rational individuals making independent choices, the effects of testosterone, dopamine and other chemicals predispose us to mob behaviour."
- Harvard lets human minds control rats, private rodent armies remain distant
- Scientists Zap Rats' Brains to Cure Cocaine Addiction
- You Don't "Own" Your Own Genes—"Researchers raise alarm about koss of individual 'genomic liberty' due to gene patents that may impact the era of personalized medicine."
- India's Supreme Court rejects Novartis' right to patent new version of cancer drug—Ensuring affordable pills.
- Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in France
- 21 graphs that show America’s health-care prices are ludicrous
- Why we need to fix our health care
- America's fastest growing job pays poorly—"Meet home health care aides."
- Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.
- What Is Obamacare? Just basics that everyone should know, though many don't
- How Insurers May Successfully Dodge Obamacare's Consumer Protections For Another Year
- The South: A near-solid block against 'Obamacare'
- Swiss Police Storm Home of Fugitive in HIV Trial—"Swiss police have arrested a self-styled acupuncturist who holed up in his home after refusing to attend a trial at which he is accused of intentionally infecting 16 people with HIV."
- Dentist's office a 'perfect storm' for HIV, hepatitis exposure, health official says
- Taiwan: Man indicted for spreading HIV out of revenge and hate
- Marital Satisfaction Predicts Weight Gain in Early Marriage
- Airline to charge overweight passengers more
- Should fat fliers pay more?—"The debate over how to accommodate obese fliers on planes has long led some travelers to ask: why not just charge heavier passengers more?" Weight shouldn't just be the deciding factor but more of girth.
