- China 'Catastrophe' Hits 114 Million as Diabetes Spreads
- Mississippians are the fattest people in the nation, and also have the hardest time getting fed
- Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity, study finds—"Experiments show microbes from thin or fat people's intestines can cause mice to lose or gain weight."
- KFC Starts Selling Deep-Fried Soup
- Video: Joe Rogan Fatso!—Stupid heckler gets knock-out view of how "fat" Joe is.
- Don't Trust a Chicken Nugget That's Visited China—"[T]he U.S. Department of Agriculture waited until Friday -- the day before a long holiday weekend -- to announce that it had ended a ban on Chinese chicken imports by approving four Chinese poultry processors to ship processed ("heat-treated/cooked") chicken to the U.S."
- USDA pilot program fails to stop contaminated meat—"A meat inspection program that the Agriculture Department plans to roll out in pork plants nationwide has repeatedly failed to stop the production of contaminated meat at American and foreign plants that have already adopted the approach, documents and interviews show."
- Aldi confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products—"Supermarket says it is angry with supplier Comigel after tests reveal 30% and 100% horsemeat in withdrawn ready meals."
- 'Pink slime' returns to school lunches in 4 more states
- UK: Packed lunches: pupils face ban in new school food plans
- Starbucks won't cut worker benefits ahead of Obamacare: CEO
- Big Majority Of Americans Opposed To Defunding Obamacare
- Poll: 44 Percent Of Americans Unsure If 'Obamacare' Is Still A Law
- More Good News on Health Care: Medicare Costs Are Down, Down, Down
- The Biggest Study Yet of Obamacare Premiums Indicates Insurance Will Be Cheaper Than Expected
- Jim DeMint: Providing Health Care For Seniors And Veterans Is 'Un-American' And Grounded In 'Socialism'
- Georgia governor gets paid through secret PAC to obstruct Obamacare
- GOP Aims To Force Democrats To Vote On Defunding Obamacare—It's a tactic they've used before.
- 'Obamacare' turns from GOP uniter to internal divider
- Republicans should get out of the way of Obamacare
- HHS tells congressional Republicans to grow up
- 25 Republicans Who Supported Obamacare Before Obama
- Time Warner To Remove U.S. Retirees From Company Health Plan
- When Our Neighbors Wish Us Dead or Broke, We're in Trouble with More Than Our Health Care System
- Health-care costs are a civil rights issue
- How a Cabal Keeps Generic Drugs Scarce—"The critical shortage of generic drugs continues unabated due to pharmaceutical companies colluding causing needless deaths." NYT
- Alive New York man sues after being declared dead by hospital—"A very much alive New York man said his Medicaid benefits were cut off, and credit cards and bank accounts were canceled after a hospital declared him dead."
- NZ baby refused treatment by parents—"The baby's parents have consented for her to have chemotherapy, then surgery to remove a tumour, but were unable to consent to a blood transfusion because of their religious beliefs."
- Measles cases put Texas megachurch under scrutiny
- Another Set of Faith-Healing Parents Arrested After Allowing Their Daughter to Die of a Treatable Disease—They've been charged with manslaughter.
- Angels of Karachi: The Pakistani women who risk death every day to vaccinate children against polio—"I continued after my niece was shot. We all die one day, so why not as a brave person?"
- Another U.S. porn actor tests positive for HIV, leading to moratorium
- Video shows how ER staff ignored Winnipeg man — even as he repeatedly vomited — in 34 hours before death
- What a moust-ache! Woman wakes from surgery to find doctors put moustache and teardrop stickers on her face
- Wrongful death lawsuit by family of woman who died waiting for ambulance thrown out because she did not make 911 call herself—Screwed by that law.
- Researcher controls colleague's motions in 1st human brain-to-brain interface
- Sleep 'boosts brain cell numbers'—'Scientists believe they have discovered a new reason why we need to sleep - it replenishes a type of brain cell."
- Scishow: The Origins of Cute—"Hank talks about three scientific reasons why cute things make us a special kind of crazy."
- Obama Puts Syria Strike On Pause As Possible Diplomatic Solution Emerges—Was this a goof that may turn out to be good?
- Syria conflict: France to float tough UN resolution—"France will put a resolution to the UN Security Council to place Syria's chemical weapons under international control so they can be destroyed, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius says."
- Obama was right to go to Congress. The fact that he might lose proves it.
- Bashar Assad tells Charlie Rose U.S. should "expect every action" in response to Syria strikes
- Some see biblical visions of doom in Syria trouble—"Some are pointing to Old Testament passages that predict the destruction of Damascus and a civil war in Egypt."
- Gen. Keith Alexander: The Cowboy of the NSA—Apparently he "has no problem playing word games to justify what he wants."
- Scheier: Government Secrecy and the Generation Gap
- Crypto prof asked to remove NSA-related blog post—"Predictable backtrack from Johns Hopkins comes a few hours later." Update: The university apologized for acting "too quickly, on the basis of inadequate and—as it turns out—incorrect information."
- Phillip Rogaway: "Both US-persons and non-US-persons have a right to be free of routinized surveillance. This right does not spring solely from the US Fourth Amendment; it is a human and natural right as well."—This one's from a professor at UC Davis.
- EFF: Crucial Unanswered Questions about the NSA's BULLRUN Program
