- Samoa Air says charging passengers by weight has been successful
- Low fat labelling may encourage consumption—"Foods labelled 'low fat' or 'low calorie' may encourage consumers to eat more, according to a study published in the journal Appetite."
- Two viral videos attack the beauty standard and fat talk
- Obamacare enrollment soars in November
- Many uninsured Americans still don't know about Affordable Care Act
- Members of Congress shocked to discover health care system sucks—"It's good that political elites are being exposed to what many of us already knew." WaPo
- Rubio enrolls family in Obamacare exchange
- 24 Republicans Not Practicing What They Preached About Obamacare
- A guide to Obamacare's ever-changing deadlines
- Jon Stewart Shoots Down Santorum: 'Obamacare Is Not Apartheid'
- Americans Discover They're Trapped In GOP's Medicaid Expansion Gap
- Wisconsin's rejection of Medicaid money will cost the state $1.8 billion in 2022
- The Next 5 Battleground States For Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion—Florida, Virginia, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Maine.
- Colin Powell Pitches Single-Payer Health Care in US
- Single Payer Is Getting a Second Life as Obamacare Frustration Peaks
- How to Revive the Fight for Single-Payer
- As Hospital Prices Soar, a Stitch Tops $500—"Hospital pricing is often convoluted, and hospital charges represent about a third of the total United States health care bill." NYT
- Paying a $1 million medical bill
- Why High Medical Bills Are Killing Us
- The U.S. Trillion-Dollar Medical Bill—"99.6% Is Not Related to Colonoscopy."
- The True Cost of Healthcare by David Belk MD
- Thanks To Obamacare, The Number Of Women Who Aren't Charged For Birth Control Has Jumped 25 Percent
- Religious groups get win vs. O’care birth-control mandate
- MI Senator Shames Republicans Over 'Rape Insurance' Law—"A female state senator in Michigan shamed her Republican colleagues this week over a new law that requires women to purchase what she called 'rape insurance' by graphically retelling her own experience with sexual assault." The law was passed.
- Pregnant Woman Suffers. You Won't Believe Who's to Blame.—Mercy Health hospital opted to place its "Ethical and Religious Directives" over the well-being of the mother and ended up doing a lot of harm.
- IUD insertions on the rise in B.C.
- Measles cases in U.S. rise; most unvaccinated, CDC says
- HIV returns in two patients after bone marrow transplant
- Drug-Resistant TB a 'Ticking Bomb,' Warns WHO—"Half-a-million infected people threaten to spread the potent strand of tuberculosis further."
- Scientists Used Facebook For The Largest Ever Study Of Language And Personality — And The Results Are Groundbreaking
- Children's language development: Talk and listen to them from birth.
- iPads help late-speaking children with autism develop language
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev believed he was being fed orders through 'majestic mind control'
- Revealed: The Soviet Union's $1 Billion 'Psychotronic' Arms Race with the US
- Lad who refused to fly for 18 MONTHS is hypnotised so he can return from Dubai
- NSA phone surveillance program likely unconstitutional, federal judge rules—Judge Leon says Americans have a "greater expectation" of privacy today.
- Everything You Need to Know About Today's Court Ruling on NSA Spying—"See why a federal judge slammed the government's surveillance program as 'almost-Orwellian.'"
- Snowden says ruling vindicates leak of NSA files—"He says decision that collection of phone data is unconstitutional is 'the first of many.'"
- White House: No amnesty for Snowden—So much for the NSA's plans.
- An NSA Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'A Genius Among Geniuses'—"I won't call him a hero, but he's sure as hell no traitor."
- NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report—"Our take on five things the spy agency would like the public to believe about its vast surveillance powers."
- The truth about the NSA's bogus malware apocalypse—"Keith Alexander says China's BIOS virus could bring down the US economy — but could it?"
- Editorial: Rein in broad NSA snooping—"America's security should not come at the expense of constitutional protections. The head of the National Security Agency may give civil liberties a secondary priority. But Congress should not — and should insist that the nation's intelligence agencies rein in unwarranted snooping."
- The NSA: An Inside View—"In which I relate my experience as an NSA employee and impart my thoughts on the policies in place, my former coworkers, and the current cyber war."
- Top tech executives to meet with Obama to push for limits on surveillance WaPo
