- Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade—"The data, reported in a major federal health survey, offered the first clear evidence that America's children have turned a corner in the obesity epidemic, and came as a surprise to researchers." Go Michelle. NYT
- America's obesity cure: Laziness?—"New research finds one bad habit we’re often tagged with (sloth) can help us overcome another (overeating)." Salon
- Average obese woman gets just 1 hour of exercise a year
- Birth by C-Section May Raise Obesity Risk—"A large review of studies has found that birth by cesarean section is associated with being overweight and obese in adulthood." NYT
- New F.D.A. Nutrition Labels Would Make ‘Serving Sizes’ Reflect Actual Servings—"The Food and Drug Administration will propose major changes to nutrition labels on food packages, including more prominent calorie counts and the adjustment of some portion sizes." NYT
- Feds to fine Florida over limit on Medicaid patients’ ER visits
- 3 hospitals failed to help dying deaf patient: suit
- Cancer doctors treat woman on wrong breast
- Red Light Cameras at Hospital Entrance Investigated by Channel 10—And "the fine was upheld by the Judge Magistrate appointed by the city." Nice shakedown. Does the hospital get a cut of the proceeds?
- GOP finally goes too far on Obamacare: Why the 50th repeal vote is not the charm—"Last year Republicans could call for killing Obamacare, with no consequences. Now it means something very different." Salon
- Being a doctor was once a job with great purpose. Now it's just a business—"The 'free market' approach to care means seeing more patients in less time. We've lost the human connection in health reform."
- Seth Rogen: Why were only two senators at Alzheimer's hearing?
- Fraternity waited an hour to get help for passed out pledge, Googled symptoms—The student died.
- Doctors give up on efforts to revive Michael Schumacher: Report
- Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers—"Hospital records of all NHS patients sold for insurance purposes days after controversial plans to extract patient data from GP files put on hold."
- NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says—"Health select committee member Sarah Wollaston queries how data was secured by PA Consulting and uploaded to servers outside UK."
- Hospital records used to 'target ads on Twitter and Facebook' say privacy campaigners, in latest NHS data concerns
- California BART rider with measles potentially exposed thousands
- 'About 20' cases of polio-like illness found in California
- AIDS Denial Crazies Go All DMCA On Videos Educating People Of Their Crazines
- How Many People Aren't Vaccinating Their Kids in Your State?—"In some places, dodging your children's immunizations is as easy as checking a box."
- Study: Trying to convince parents to vaccinate their kids just makes the problem worse Salon
- Polio vaccination teams attacked by Pakistani militants—"Militants ambush convoy of health workers with roadside bomb, killing 12 of their security team and wounding dozens more."
- Every day is grammar day when you've got this job
- This Pronoun Will Make You Irresistible to Women
- Bill Flanagan of the grammar police on "I and me"
- The 9 Most Controversial Rules In English Grammar
- The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar—"No more diagramming sentences: Students learn more from simply writing and reading."
- Quebec: Expect tougher language laws if PQ wins majority, minister says
- Quebec store owner ordered to change Facebook page to French—"Eva Cooper argues that Quebec's language law, Bill 101, doesn't cover social media."
- Montreal Board of Trade criticizes Quebec language police over Facebook crackdown
- Pope Francis accidentally drops F-Bomb in Vatican Sunday blessing—"The Holy Father confused similar-sounding Italian words with very different meanings in his sermon about charity, but quickly corrected himself."
- Starbucks Sends Cease and Desist Letter to Bar for "F Word" Beer, Owner Sends Back $6 Check and This Letter
- No Sex Please, We're Google.—Android's dictionary treats some common words as misspellings — including some of the names of Google's own products.
- The world's 19 most imaginative insults Salon
- Video: The Count Censored
- The 5 Best Punctuation Marks in Literature
- The Period Is Pissed. When did our plainest punctuation mark become so aggressive?
- Comma usage rules are unclear. Could the punctuation mark die out completely?
- Ex-U.S. magistrate who changed baby's name from 'Messiah' censured
- Mexico state bans odd baby names including 'Facebook'
- Teenager's new name is fantastic
- Putin: Russia has no plans to annex Ukraine's Crimea region
- Kerry, Arriving in Kiev, Offers $1 Billion in Loan Guarantees to Ukraine NYT
- Ukraine praised for 'refusing to rise to Russian provocation'
- Opinion: Don't listen to Obama's Ukraine critics: he's not 'losing' – and it's not his fight—"The 'do something' pundits rear their heads. Just like they did on Iraq, Afghanistan and every other crisis of US 'credibility.'"
- The Ukraine-Russia Crisis in 26 Nail-Biting Numbers—"845,000 Russian troops plus 1,389 Russian combat aircraft plus a $115,000 wild boar statue equals big trouble."
