- The 'Dr. Oz Effect': Senators Scold Mehmet Oz For Diet Scams
- Female Hormones May Be Making Western Men Fat
- 900-Pound Woman Has Wall Removed To Leave Bedroom For First Time In 2 Years
- Parents Arrested Over Obese 11-Year-Old Son—"Police have defended their actions saying it was rare to make such an arrest after questioning the couple over child cruelty."
- Climb stairs, cut calories: Southeast Asia fights flab
- Always Hungry? Here's Why NYT
- F.B.I. Begins Criminal Inquiry in V.A. Scandal—"The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, said the bureau was looking into accusations that Department of Veterans Affairs officials had manipulated medical waiting lists." NYT
- VA Official Arrested For Allegedly Taking $40K In Illegal Gifts
- Phoenix VA gave out $10 mil in bonuses in last 3 years
- Price of coming forward: 37 VA whistle-blowers claim retaliation
- V.A. Punished Critics on Staff, Doctors Assert—"In response to employee whistle-blowers, the Department of Veterans Affairs has made clear over the years that it would not hesitate to retaliate, disciplining and even firing those who spoke up." NYT
- VA chief: 100,000 vets were on fake wait lists
- Audit: More than 57,000 await first VA appointment
- Lack of funding is the real VA scandal—Insufficient to handle the load.
- The VA Reform Legislation Is a "Trojan Horse" for Privatization—"It would do more harm than good."
- ABC, NBC Too Busy With O.J. Simpson Police Chase Anniversary To Cover V.A. Scandal
- Hospitals aren't the VA's only scandal—"The focus on VA hospitals health care for veterans obscures a separate but another scandal: a massive problem in another massive problem — a scandal of its own – the VA's disability-benefits system."
- Bill Cassidy said Senate Democrats only moved to fund new VA clinics after scandal—Politifact says: False. In fact, Republicans are the ones who blocked the latest bill prior to the outbreak of the scandal this year.
- Since Obamacare Passed 50 Months Ago, Healthcare Has Gained Almost 1 Million Jobs
- More insurers joining ObamaCare
- Obamacare cut Minnesota's uninsured rate by 40 percent
- More Young Adults Get Inpatient Psychiatric Care After Health Law
- Memo to GOP: The War over Big Government health care is over, and you lost WaPo
- Once again, U.S. has most expensive, least effective health care system in survey WaPo
- 80,000 Cover Oregon customers must re-enroll through federal health insurance exchange
- Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time
- GOP's quiet Obamacare disaster: How this week's biggest story got overlooked—"While everyone obsessed over the Bergdahl flap, the real story was revealed by a nomination hearing and new data." Salon
- Really, Dr. Carson? Obamacare Is Worse Than 9/11?—"The Republican presidential hopeful thinks that Obamacare has caused Americans more pain than jetliners crashing into the World Trade Center and two costly wars."
- American drug companies don't want to pay US taxes—but they want global customers to pay US drug prices
- One simple drug switch could save Medicare $18 billion over the next decade
- The Sunshine Act Will Publicize Big Pharma's Undue Influence on Doctors
- India thwarts Big Pharma push at WHO assembly
- Quebec passes 'dying with dignity' bill—Act respecting end-of-life care, Bill 52, allows terminally ill patients to choose death
- Judge: Daughter Can Stop Food for Casey Kasem
- 'Millions denied end-of-life drugs'—"Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a 'public health emergency,' say experts."
- 'Right to Try' laws spur debate over dying patients' access to experimental drugs WaPo
- 'Scooby Doo' actor and radio legend Casey Kasem dies at 82—"The actor's decline was unfortunately marred by a public court battle between Kasem's four children and his second wife. Kasem's daughter Kerri made the decision earlier this month to take her father off a feeding tube, according to his written instructions."
- Opinion: Let the dying choose how they exit
- Religious orders allowed over 2,000 Irish children to be used in medical experiments
- Newborns exposed to dirt, dander, germs may have lower allergy, asthma risk
- Bounce house hysteria: The biggest dangers to your kids this summer are not inflatable
- Saudi MERS response hobbled by institutional failings
- California reports whooping-cough epidemic
- 4,000 pounds of beef, some at Whole Foods, recalled over fears of mad cow disease
- A superbug resistant to "last-resort" antibiotics has made its way into the food supply—"Researchers discovered carbapenem-resistant bacteria in raw squid for the first time." Salon
- Quality Egg admits to selling tainted eggs, bribing official
- 80% of Meat Labels Could Be Meaningless, Exclusive Report Says
- Costco keeps selling treats from China despite dog death—"Yorkshire terrier suffered and died from renal failure; other illnesses, deaths reported."
- FDA May Destroy American Artisan Cheese Industry—"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an executive decree banning the centuries old practice of aging cheese on wooden boards. One bureaucrat within the FDA, without surveying all of the scientific literature, and without public commentary, has rattled hundreds of small businesses across the United States."
- Supreme Court Hands Down Ruling in Major Pomegranate Juice Case—"The Pom Wonderful company, a purveyor of pomegranate juices, can sue Coca-Cola for marketing a competing 'Pomegranate Blueberry' juice that is 0.3 percent pomegranate juice and 0.2 percent blueberry juice, the Supreme Court ruled today."
- Renaissance Man—"An interview with MMA commentator, stand-up comedian, wild game hunter, television host, and deep thinker Joe Rogan"
- Why Do Football and Basketball Players Have to go to College?
- Blast from the Past: The Creation Of Yao Ming—"From the beginning, the life of China's biggest sports star was shaped by two powerful, often competing forces: his mother and the Communist government."
- Why did humans grow four inches in 100 years? It wasn’t just diet
- Short men and heightism: We short men need to stop attacking other short men.
- NFL players: height and weight over time
- Wikileaks: Obama Administration Secretly Worked To Prevent Prosecution of War Crimes By The Bush Administration
- Manning: The Fog Machine of War—"I saw firsthand how the United States military rationed what the American public knew about its operations in Iraq." NYT
- 'Inventing terrorists': New study reveals FBI set up terrorism-related prosecutions
- Afghan election: Taliban 'removed voters' fingers'
- Pakistan Launches Large Ground Offensive Against Taliban
- The Milk Carton Guy—"Bergdahl critics didn't howl when Bush freed prisoners." NYT
- The Dumbest Thing You'll Read All Day About the Benghazi Suspect Capture
- Heritage's ugly Benghazi panel—"Attendees taunted a woman in the room who wore Islamic head covering." WaPo
- Pa. town rues sacrifice of its war dead
- Just what are we getting for the $7 billion spent on the TSA?
- Images purport to show 'massacre' by militants
- Tony Blair rejects 'bizarre' claims that invasion of Iraq caused the crisis—"'We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that 'we' caused this', argues former prime minister in website essay." Is this Catholic guilt trying to distance yourself from your fuck-up Blair?
- Bush's toxic legacy in Iraq
- Fox News Praises George W. Bush's Ability To Anticipate Problems In Iraq
- Mission never accomplished: Iraq exposes fallacies of US foreign policy
- The Iraq Mess: Place Blame Where It Is Deserved—"We have reached the moment that skeptics of the 2003 United States invasion of Iraq warned about all along."
- Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, and Douglas Feith should be ignored: The neocons already destroyed Iraq once
- No, Obama Didn't Lose Iraq—"What the president's critics get wrong." Politico
- GOP Iraq Hypocrisy Hits Overdrive—"Obama is 'taking a nap' as ISIS takes over? It was Boehner's party that gave us this war, and it was Bush who negotiated the 'peace.' Is there anything they won't play politics with?"
- ISIS: The Saudis helped create a monster they can't control in Iraq
- Obama Critics Invent Absurd New Explanation For Iraq War
- Qatari: U.S. intervention in Iraq would be seen as war on Sunni Arabs
