- Global population of obese and overweight tops 2.1bn
- Australian obesity rates climbing faster than anywhere else in the world, study shows
- Top 10 Countries with the Most Obese People Named
- Japanese children 'not hungry to be sumo wrestlers'
- Mexican man, once world's heaviest, dies at 48
- One chilling reason Americans are increasingly overweight—"The new documentary "Fed Up" reveals how Big Food pushed the government to give out compromised health information." Salon
- Republicans for More Fat Kids—"Is it really cost that's driving the House GOP to fight Michelle Obama on school lunches? Of course not—it's the culture wars, the sugar lobby, and plain old hatred of her husband."
- Skinny People Make Overweight People Unhappy, New Study Finds
- Fat people stick together so they don't feel judged: Being overweight is considered OK if everyone around you is a similar size
- Coca-Cola accused of 'obscene' hypocrisy in £20 million 'anti-obesity' drive
- Many low-fat foods 'have SAME amount of calories as regular equivalents due to added sugar'
- The case for eating steak and cream—"Why everything you heard about fat is wrong."
- Thoughts on Shinseki's resignation
- How the VA developed its culture of coverups—"Once a bureaucratic success story, the agency began to hide its problems from those in Washington." WaPo
- President Obama Finds New Veterans Affairs IG Report 'Deeply Troubling'
- Texas VA Run Like a 'Crime Syndicate,' Whistleblower Says—"For years, employees at a Texas VA complained that their bosses were cooking the books. For years, the VA insisted there was no widespread wrongdoing."
- Iraq Vet Killed In Gunfight With Police Was Turned Away by VA Hospital
- Report: 1,700 vets not on Phoenix VA wait list, at risk of being 'lost or forgotten'
- Veteran Sues VA After Diagnosis Delay Leads to Penis Amputation
- Obamacare Caused This Clinic To Close, And Its Doctors Couldn't Be Happier
- 21 things Obamacare does that you didn't know about
- Republicans are three times more likely than Democrats to say they know someone who was hurt by Obamacare WaPo
- Kentuckians Hate Kynect A Lot Less Than Obamacare—"Residents of Kentucky may hate Obamacare, but they're much less hostile toward Kynect, the state's health exchange created to comply with the law." McConnell says it has no connection with the ACA but he's talking out of his ass.
- GOP's Obamacare fears come true—More states deferring to federal exchanges than anticipated. Politico
- Missouri State Sen. Ed Emery to Voter: You Want Medicaid? Move to Oregon!
- A Health Care Scandal That's Way Bigger Than the VA
- Va. Republicans' lonely Medicaid stand—"Republicans in Virginia's House of Delegates have blocked hundreds of thousands of poor Virginians from getting health insurance under the Obama administration's Medicaid expansion. At the same time, they've refused to suggest any alternative method by which the needy people in the state might arrange health coverage." WaPo
- Brevard doctor ordered to pay Medicare $90M—For fraud.
- Sonoma County Man Battling Cancer Denied Coverage By Anthem Blue Cross After Paying $100K In Premiums
- Woman Gets $11.6M Bill After Death of Disabled Brother in NYC Facility
- Husband finds out wife still alive three days after turning off life support—"Husband watches wife 'die twice' after finding out she was still alive three days after he turned off her life support - but the hospital failed to tell him she had recovered."
- Trust your doctor, not Wikipedia, say scientists
- French lab shut after losing SARS virus samples
- Ebola: Deadly outbreak crosses border as mistrust hampers medical staff
- Thousands may have been exposed to hepatitis A at Missouri restaurant
- Year-old salmonella outbreak in California continues
- Portland issues boil water notice for the entire city after E. coli detected in 3 tests—How Oregon Trail.
- Measles surge most since 1994 to 288 cases in U.S.
- The New Measles Outbreak: Blame the Anti-Vaxxers
- Delaying Vaccines May Increase Seizure Risk NYT
- Sunrise Police Searching For Missing Toddler —The mother said that if the husband let "them take her and vaccinate her and brainwash her; she says I cannot let a judge tell me how to raise my daughter."
- Canada: Time For a National Vaccine Registry
- Childhood fluoride exposure has no effect on IQ—"Research comes in response to an NZ city's on-again, off-again fluoridation ban."
- Thousands of Toddlers Are Medicated for A.D.H.D., Report Finds, Raising Worries—"The practice draws concern, in part, because there has been little study on the use of A.D.H.D. drugs for children under 3." Piss-poor parenting really to blame? NYT
- Judy Blume: Parents worry too much about what children read—"Children's author Judy Blume, whose own books have been banned in the past, says children 'self-censor' reading material they don't understand."
- Woman's cancer killed by measles virus in unprecedented trial WaPo
- Teen Develops Early-Stage HIV Test For High School Science Project
- Drug Developers Take a Second Look at Herbal Medicines—"Desperate to develop new drugs for malaria and other ailments, researchers are running clinical trials with traditional herbal medicines—and generating promising leads."
- Ex-players: NFL illegally used drugs
- Classy Seahawks sign draft pick before having to cut him due to heart condition
- 91-Year-Old Marathoner Smokes the Competition—Did better than oldest woman in the NYC marathon.
- Why Are We So Obsessed With the Myers-Briggs?—"How personality tests become personal mythology."
- Sleepy brains neglect half the world—"A new study shows that drowsiness alters awareness in much the same way as a common form of brain damage."
- Scientists Selectively Erase And Restore Memories
- Lessons Learned From a Year Without Showering
- Urine and the bladder are not sterile, contain bacteria—"New studies challenge the belief that the bladder is bacteria-free."
- Watering gardens with lead, BPA and phthalates
- Levi's CEO Says You Should Never Wash Your Jeans
- One billion people still defecate in public despite health risks-UN
