- Obamacare Deadline Keeps Getting Delayed, Even As Enrollment Skyrockets—Allowed 750k Americans more to sign up.
- Mass., Vt. halt payments to firm behind health sites Boston Globe
- GOP theme for 2014: bashing Obamacare, again
- Can Vermont's Single-Payer System Fix What Ails American Healthcare?—"As Obamacare struggles, progressives hope a bold experiment could offer a better model. But first, it has to work."
- Health Care's Road to Ruin—"There are ways to lower costs. Is there the will?" NYT
- This $55,000 Bill Is The Perfect Example Of Our Broken Hospital System
- Conservative Editor Who Was Hospitalized Without Health Insurance And Had To Rely On Donations Is Still Against Obamacare
- Outrageous HSBC Settlement Proves the Drug War is a Joke
- In Honduras, a Drug-War Mission Gone Wrong—"Why are we still fighting the drug war?"
- Woman sues over vaginal, anal exams in El Paso drug search
- Legal challenge questions reliability of police dogs—The claim is that "the Metropolitan Police Department's police dogs, and eventually NHP's own dogs, were 'trick ponies' that responded to their handlers' cues, and therefore routinely violated citizens' rights to lawful search under the Fourth Amendment."
- Drug overdoses kill more people than auto accidents in 29 states—"Drug overdoses kill more Americans than motor vehicles in 29 states, despite new laws aimed at curbing abuse."
- Glaxo Says It Will Stop Paying Doctors to Promote Drugs—"The announcement, an apparent first for a major drug company, would end a common practice that is criticized for posing a conflict of interest." NYT
- $1,000 Pill For Hepatitis C Spurs Debate Over Drug Prices—"Graham says she thinks once Gilead has recovered its investment cost, it ought to cut the price of sofosbuvir. 'That's very unlikely that we would do that,' responds Alton, Gilead vice president."
- India's Efforts to Aid Poor Worry Drug Makers NYT
- The lie that won't die: "We don't know enough about marijuana!"—"Drug warriors insist we still don't know enough about its possible therapeutic properties. It's simply not true." Salon
- 10 things to know about nation's first recreational marijuana shops in Colorado—The Denver's Post Cannabist site is online.
- California Attorney General: Legalizing Marijuana Would Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars A Year
- Family gets $340,000 bill after losing medical malpractice suit
- Multivitamin researchers say "case is closed" after studies find no health benefits
- New York City Extends Smoking Ban To E-Cigarettes
- An emotional goodbye for 'bubbly, energetic' teen Emma following nut allergy tragedy—"When she began showing signs of going into anaphylactic shock, her mother brought her to the nearby Hamilton Long pharmacy where she was refused the EpiPen autoinjector as she did not have her prescription."
- Ontario mom urges schools to let asthmatic kids carry puffers—"Ryan Gibbons, 12, died after a severe asthma attack during recess at Straffordville, Ont., school."
- Two senators block Franken's mental health bill
- Health law may not broaden access to mental treatment—"Low rates are among the reasons psychiatrists opted out."
- Medicare to Cover More Mental Health Costs—"Effective Jan. 1, Medicare will cover the costs of mental health care much as it does other medical expenses." NYT
- Hong Kong confirms first death from H7N9 bird flu
- WHO says 4 new Saudi cases of MERS virus, one fatal
- Fired: pregnant nurse studies flu vaccine fine print, decides it's too risky—Too risky also for sick patients in the hospital to have her around.
- AIDS vaccine test results faked—"Dong-Pyou Han was an assistant professor of biomedical sciences. He resigned in October after admitting responsibility, an ISU spokesman said."
- Bubonic plague outbreak kills 32 in Madagascar
