- Obese Patients Trust Diet Advice from Overweight Physicians More than Normal-Weight Physicians
- The fat-shaming of school "FitnessGrams"—"Schools are hurting young ballet dancers, wrestlers and kids of every size with useless BMI assessments." Salon
- Best Plus Size Models: Who Is Dominating The Industry Right Now
- Papa Joe Aviance Lost 250 Pounds on the '99-Cent Diet'
- Study: Subway Sandwiches Are Worse Than We Think—"We still underestimate how many calories we're getting at most fast food restaurants. The effect is most drastic at Subway, where a marketing "health halo" seems responsible."
- Renegade Wendy's kills giant 'T-Rex' burger—"[A] gargantuan nine-patty cheeseburger" inspired by "a magazine spoof several years ago" goes extinct.
- Blast from the Past: Family who are 'too fat to work' say £22,000 worth of benefits is not enough
- Social and psychological experiments 'a waste of money'?—"A study suggests that money will continue to be wasted on research into social and psychological interventions unless the methods used by the researchers are fully reported in academic journals."
- Avatar Therapy May Silence Schizophrenia Sufferers' Demons
- Brain-Scan Lie Detectors Just Don't Work—"Perpetrators can suppress 'crime memories,' study finds."
- Laughter and the Brain—"Can humor help us better understand the most complex and enigmatic organ in the human body?"
- Study: Reading novels makes us better thinkers—"New research says reading literary fiction helps people embrace ambiguous ideas and avoid snap judgments." Salon
- How typeface influences the way we read and think
- Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?
- Druken Novice: Prescription
- Children's Cancer Center Rebrands Chemotherapy As "Superformula"
- US donor gives 100 gallons of blood over 35 years
- Justices rule human genes cannot be patented—"Supreme Court decision is a win for women with genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancers, as well as geneticists and researchers who had criticized a Utah company's exclusive patent."
- The Daily Show: Care Bearers—"Jessica Williams investigates America's 'health belt' and its rejection of expanded Medicaid coverage."
- Single payer is needed cure
- The terrible deal for states rejecting Medicaid
- Supreme Court Lets Regulators Sue Over Generic Drug Deals—"The justices ruled on Monday that brand-name drug makers could face antitrust charges for paying generic competitors to keep cheaper copies of a drug off the market." NYT
- Summer Is Lyme Disease Season. The Price of the Drug to Treat It Just Exploded
- Clinic with two doors, a symbol of two-tier care—"One side is for patients with insurance, the other for those who pay up front."
- Doctors dump health insurance plans, charge patients less
- Obamacare’s big question: What’s it going to cost me?
- Parents' fear of vaccinations nearly killed their son
- Chicago Hospital Accused of Cutting Throats for $160,000
- Blast from the Past: Cause of Death: Sloppy Doctors—Extremely relevant: Medical Alphabet
- 91-year-old Ariz. man breaks weightlifting record
- Cape Town: Working it out at Frankie's—"Welcome to Frankie's Gym, where local gangsters leave their knives at the door and use their fists to pump iron."
- Education is important...
