- Over 5,000 websites signed up for "The Day We Fight Back" protest against mass spying
- The Internet is Owned--Act Accordingly—"Costin Raiu of Kaspersky Lab said he assumes his laptop is compromised at all times. Users in the age of NSA surveillance should act the same way." The terrorists win again.
- The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program
- The terrifying surveillance case of Brandon Mayfield—"With NSA overreach, nobody is safe from confirmation bias."
- Major NSA intelligence facility established in Jerusalem
- Council to send obese people 'motivational' texts—"£10,000 project aims to encourage people to lose weight."
- Navajo Nation Hikes Sales Taxes on 'Junk Foods,' Makes Healthy Food Choices Tax-Free
- Sugar not only makes you fat, it may make you sick
- 'Biggest Loser' Winner Rachel Frederickson Raises Questions About Healthy Weight Loss
- Married Men — Not Women — Are Fatter Than Their Singleton Counterparts
- Obama: 'I Regret' Promise On Individual Health Plans
- White House delays health insurance mandate for medium-sized employers until 2016 WaPo
- Millions Are Now Realizing They're Too Poor For Obamacare
- Missouri Senate Kills Medicaid Expansion For Roughly 300,000 Lower-Income People—Cutting off noses to spite their faces.
- The Koch brothers' group is getting involved in Louisiana's Obamacare fight WaPo
- Obamacare is disproportionately hurting Republicans and conservatives—"New Gallup numbers reveal an ideological tilt to those who say they are being harmed by the law." WaPo
- HealthCare.gov can't handle appeals of enrollment errors—"Appeals paperwork is entered into a computer — but the system isn't able to do more." WaPo
- CBO: Guys, We Didn't Say Obamacare Would Cost 2.5 Million Jobs
- GOP steps in Obamacare trap: Watch their false claims blow up in their face!—For the right, attacks against Obamacare's market disruption were great fun. Until it doomed their own plan. Oops." Salon
- Why Do Republicans Want Us to Work All the Time? Politico
- Fox Host Commends "Uniquely American" Value: "Work Two And Three Jobs To Make Ends Meet—What a crapload.
- Liberals, Conservatives, and the Meaning of Work—"It appears that those who talk so much about 'economic freedom' aren't too happy when ordinary people have more choices."
- CGI chief says reputation intact despite 'Obamacare' woes—The change in leadership mostly went unnoticed.
- Bloomberg gave 311 contract worth $10M to company behind Obamacare rollout
- Zounds and zowie! Jindal awards $34 million contract to firm that dropped the ObamaCare web page rollout ball!
- Snakebite victim charged $89,000 for 18-hour hospital stay
- Hospital Chain Said to Scheme to Inflate Bills—"Whistle-blower suits claim Health Management Associates tried to inflate its Medicare and Medicaid payments by admitting more patients." NYT
- Medical Price Gouging—"It's time to cut out the corporate profiteers and purveyors of waste and fraud and introduce a system that works for everybody." Ralph Nader for single-payer.
- Medical bills still a major burden on American families, CDC study finds
- Waiting to Live: Fighting an Insurance Company for a Life-Saving Surgery
- Study: Health Care Reform Likely to Reduce Bankruptcy and Catastrophic Debt
- The Next Health Care Reform—"Once everyone has insurance, we need to fix health care providers."
- The Onion: Man Getting Screwed By Company's $180,000 Health Deductible
- Big Pharma's hidden links to NHS policy, with senior MPs saying medical industry uses 'wealth to influence government'
- Manufacturer Tried to Hide Results of Testing of Blood Thinner Implicated in 1,000 Deaths
- US bans more products from India's Ranbaxy
- Big Pharma pushes for U.S. action against India on drugs
- Intellectual property rights: US set to punish India
- Pharmaceutical Company Discontinues Lifesaving Cancer Drug Due To Disappointing Profits
- Man found dead after 8-hour ER wait—"The patient may have been dead for hours before anyone noticed what had happened." Salon
- Hundreds of mentally ill children 'locked in police cells', some for over 24 hours
- Forsyth Medical Center says 18 patients exposed to deadly disease
- Two dozen charged in $500 million New York pain-pill scheme
- Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP—"David Davis says police would be able to approach central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust."
- The toll of the anti-vaccination movement, in one devastating graphic
- California flu deaths hit 202; infant dies from whooping cough
- Afghanistan polio: First case in Kabul since 2001—"An Afghan girl has been diagnosed with polio in Kabul - the capital's first case since the Taliban's fall in 2001."
- Pediatrician: Vaccinate Your Kids—Or Get Out of My Office—"If you won't trust your doctors on vaccinating your kids, will you ever really trust them at all?"
- H7N9 Bird Flu in Shanghai Kills First Medical Worker, Renewing Transmission Fears
- First major US drugstore drops cigarettes—"US President Barack Obama says decision by CVS, the country's second largest drugstore, sets 'powerful example.'"
- Top lessons from 50 years of fighting the tobacco industry—"In 1964, defeating Big Tobacco seemed impossible. Today, firearms, alcohol and processed food pose similar challenges."
- Leonard Nimoy has lung disease, urges fans to quit smoking
- Marlboro ad man Eric Lawson dies of chronic lung disease—"Actor who appeared in cigarette campaign in late 1970s is third Marlboro cowboy to succumb to smoking-related illness."
- UK: Smoking ban in cars carrying children 'by 2015'
- Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath—"Neuroscientist James Fallon discovered through his work that he has the brain of a psychopath, and subsequently learned a lot about the role of genes in personality and how his brain affects his life."
- Comedians have psychotic personality traits, study finds
- Why psychopathic film villains are rarely realistic — and why it matters
- End the Ban on Psychoactive Drug Research—"It's time to let scientists study whether LSD, marijuana and ecstasy can ease psychiatric disorders."
- The NFL's Response to Brain Trauma: A Brief History
- Lead and Crime: It's a Brain Thing
- An Aging Brain Is Still Pretty Smart—"It may be slower, but it has a wealth of information to draw from."
- First brain map of speech units could aid mind-reading
- IBM Is Using Watson To Psychoanalyze People From Their Tweets
- Brain Rewards Us for Looking at Pretty Faces
- Psychiatrists embrace deep-brain stimulation—"Brain-stimulation procedures for psychiatric disorders are on the rise. Should we be concerned?" Salon
