- IRS Sleuths Were on the Right Track: Big Tobacco Created Tea Party in 1994
- Why Calif. Doesn't Want Smokers To Pay More For Health Insurance
- FDA will rule none too soon on e-cigarette regulations
- French Researchers Recommend Stopping E-Cigarette Use in Public
- Apple won't fix your computer if you smoke near it
- Some very good news for Obamacare
- Obamacare Will Be A Debacle — For Republicans Salon
- Why the GOP keeps trying to destroy Obamacare
- Republican Congressmen & Press Caught Lying About Obamacare
- Rubio: The 'Only Answer' To IRS Scandal Is To Repeal Obamacare
- Health Law Critics Seek to Gut It by Attacking Exchanges
- The GOP's dangerous Obamacare strategy
- Health Officials Decry Texas' Snubbing Of Medicaid Billions—Sending uninsured Texans down to Mexico for health care.
- AZ GOP Governor Shuts Down Lawmaking Until Her Party Agrees To Expand Medicaid
- House members say yes to cheap health insurance — for themselves—"Florida House Republicans last month loudly and proudly rejected billions of dollars in federal money that would have provided health insurance to 1 million poor Floridians. Quietly, they kept their own health insurance premiums staggeringly low. House members will pay just $8.34 a month for state-subsidized health care next year, or $30 a month to cover their entire family."
- Kill Bill: Political techniques may have changed, but lobbyists still deliver a terrific return on investment—"According to statistics United Republic assembled, the prescription drug industry spent $116 million lobbying for legislation to prevent Medicare from bargaining down drug prices — legislation that enabled drug companies to make an additional $90 billion annually." NYT
- Millions can't afford to go to the doctor
- Americans Who Battle Cancer Are Twice As Likely To Go Bankrupt, Even If They Have Health Insurance
- Doctors Denounce Cancer Drug Prices of $100,000 a Year —"More than 100 influential cancer specialists argued in a journal that some drug prices are unsustainable and perhaps even immoral." NYT
- Life-saving drugs' prices set to fall by up to 80 per cent
- One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000
- Two Oregon insurers rethink 2014 premiums as state posts first-ever rate comparison
- Health law is fostering competition, administration says NYT
- South Portland doctor stops accepting insurance, posts prices online
- Hospitals profit when patients develop bloodstream infections—"Johns Hopkins researchers report that hospitals may be reaping enormous income for patients whose hospital stays are complicated by preventable bloodstream infections contracted in their intensive care units."
- Dirty medicine—"The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans."
- New SARS-like virus is a 'threat to the entire world'
- Root of teen's mystery ailment: tiny wire from barbecue brush
- Vegan couple sentenced to life over baby's death—"Malnourished baby was fed soy milk and apple juice, weighed 3 1/2 pounds."
- The Health Toll of Immigration—"A growing body of mortality research on immigrants has shown that the longer they live in the United States, the worse their rates of heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes."
- Bioethicist says parents who don't vaccinate should face liability for consequences
- Measles Epidemic in Wales Has Roots in Antivax Movement
- Grieving parents speak out against anti-vaccination extremists
- New Zealand: Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children
- NSW: Vaccinate your children or declare why not, parents told
- Taliban renounces war on anti-polio workers
- Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.—"It's insanity to kill your father with a kitchen knife. It's also insanity to close hospitals, fire therapists, and leave families to face mental illness on their own."
- You Are Less Beautiful Than You Think
- The Lethality of Loneliness—"We now know how it can ravage our body and brain."
- Coding, Fast and Slow: Developers and the Psychology of Overconfidence
- Justice Is in Our Nature—"Social contracts are written into our biology. As is the justice they need."
- Sacramento couple sees their 5-month-old baby after CPS took him following dispute with doctors
- Vermont OKs assisted suicide bill
- L.A. poised to go after Las Vegas hospital in patient-dumping cases—"Multiple agencies, including the Los Angeles city attorney's office, are investigating whether Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada's primary public mental health facility, has been systematically dumping patients across state lines for years."
- UK: Top A&E doctors warn: 'We cannot guarantee safe care for patients anymore'—"Patients at risk from combination of 'toxic overcrowding' and 'institutional exhaustion', say heads of 20 emergency departments."
- Medical Test Uses Fingers To Predict Heart Disease
- Doctors: Sitting is the new smoking
- Avoiding Burnout
