- Where Does Obesity Come From?—"We think poverty makes people obese and that obesity makes people poor. It's harder to understand exactly why."
- Five myths about obesity—"Are our diets or our genes to blame?" WaPo
- Obesity is a risk factor for serious flu complications, Kalamazoo College students warned
- Slim, unfit men are 'less likely' to suffer heart attacks than fit obese men
- Frozen yoghurt and other deceptively unhealthy foods that are making you fatter
- 'Fat is good': the message from a man who swapped sugar for bacon and eggs—"A new documentary makes startling claims about what is and is not healthy for us, challenging received wisdom."
- Science teacher loses almost 40 pounds on 'McDonald's diet'—"Ninety days of Mickey D's for breakfast, lunch and dinner but with strict daily nutritional limitations of 2,000 calories and trying to stay close to the recommended dietary allowances for nutrients like carbohydrates, proteins, fat calories and cholesterol."
- The war against butter is over. Butter won.
- How Gatorade turned water into 'the enemy of performance'
- "Expired" food is good for you: A supermarket exec's bold business gamble—"Trader Joe's' former president wants to sell you the food that other stores throw out. Will it work?" Salon
- Parents, experts decry junk food marketing in schools
- Food Marketing in 2014 Will Be Ugly—Are food corporations living up to 'responsible marketing' promises?
- Top U.S. court refuses to hear appeal of Monsanto seed case
- Maine becomes second state to require GMO labels WaPo
- A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops—"When a bill to ban genetically engineered crops on the island of Hawaii was introduced, doubts nagged at Greggor Ilagan, a councilman, about what the risks were, if any, of the crops." NYT
- Ignore the Republicans: Obamacare Is Doing Fine
- Despite what the critics say, Obamacare is working WaPo
- Desperate, last-ditch effort for Obamacare haters fails—"A federal judge's ruling suggests Obamacare foes are either dishonest or unable to read." Salon
- Obamacare's a "Bailout" Now? Conservative Critics Are Getting Desperate
- Senate Candidate Claims IRS is Training "Brown Shirts" to Enforce Obamacare Using Assault Weapons
- Health-insurance sign-ups by young adults are off pace seen as key to new law's success WaPo
- Medicaid is Obamacare’s biggest success. But neither side wants to talk about it. WaPo
- Nearly 6 in 10 in Georgia favor Medicaid expansion
- Obama administration to end contract with CGI Federal, company behind HealthCare.gov WaPo
- Insecure healthcare.gov allowed hacker to access 70,000 records in 4 minutes
- New Data Show How Hospitals Rip You Off
- Patients' Costs Skyrocket; Specialists' Incomes Soar—"Patient costs have risen as doctors have become more entrepreneurial, protecting their turf through lobbying by medical societies and increasing revenues by offering new and more lucrative procedures." NYT
- Why I Had to Close My Preventive Healthcare Clinic
- Novartis may be involved in another clinical study—"The Japanese arm of Swiss-based drug maker Novartis is suspected of having involved its sales staff in a clinical study of a new drug."
- NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms—"Privacy experts warn there will be no way for public to work out who has their medical records or how they are using it."
- Health Canada library changes leave scientists scrambling—"Main Health Canada research library closed, access outsourced to retrieval company."
- $62M awarded to woman who lost legs after surgery
- Montreal: Woman claims she was told to leave hospital and province for requesting English service
- Turkey passes controversial medical aid bill—"Bill that makes it crime for doctors to provide emergency first aid without government authorisation comes into force."
- 'Golden age' of antibiotics 'set to end'
- Botulinum Toxin type H- the Deadliest Known Toxin With no Known Antidote Discovered
- Pakistan polio workers shot dead in Karachi
- HIV-Positive Student Secretly Filmed Self Having Unprotected Sex With At Least 31 People
- S.Korea steps up measures to contain bird flu
- This Incredible Map Shows All The Infections That Vaccines Could Have Prevented
- Have cigarettes become more addictive?
- China, world's leading tobacco user, moves to ban indoor public smoking
- Chicago votes to ban e-cigarettes
- Body Atlas Reveals Where We Feel Happiness and Shame
- Supercomputer takes 40 mins to calculate a single second of human brain activity
- Heavy drinking tied to faster mental decline in middle-aged men, study finds—"The study of about 5,000 British civil servants found that over a decade, the added decline was the equivalent of about two extra years of aging for a combined measure of mental abilities like reasoning, and about six years for memory."
