- Putin Is Reviving a Stalinist Fitness Program to Whip Russians Into Shape
- The Jobs With the Highest Obesity Rates—"Strangely, people who work in healthcare tend to be less healthy than others."
- Diet drinks linked with heart disease, death
- Seven-a-day fruit and veg 'saves lives'
- Scientists Fix Errors in Controversial Paper About Saturated Fats
- BOOM! Obamacare Sign Ups on Track to Hit 7 Million Goal
- GOP struggles with Obamacare surge—They're whining that the White House is 'cooking the books'…
- Poll: Obamacare Support Breaks Even For First Time
- Ted Cruz asks his Facebook friends about Obamacare, gets an earful
- Obamacare fails to collapse. Time to Move on, folks. WaPo
- Krugman: Obamacare, The Unknown Ideal—"Obamacare is the conservative alternative, and you can't move further right without doing no reform at all." NYT
- Obamacare is not universal health care—"The Affordable Care Act leaves some of our neediest citizens without insurance or a reliable source of care."
- Gilead Sciences' $84,000 price for hepatitis drug is scrutinized—"Lawmakers ask Gilead CEO John C. Martin to explain the rationale for selling Sovaldi for $1,000 per pill, or $84,000 for a 12-week course to treat hepatitis C."
- California, 44 other states fail at posting medical prices, report says
- New York Curbs Medical Bills Containing Surprises—"A provision in the state budget agreement will protect consumers by requiring that they be given notice when an out-of-network doctor is involved in their care." NYT
- While we hesitate, the terminally ill are denied a peaceful end
- Family fights for euthanasia law for terminal patients
- Tory MP Steven Fletcher reopens euthanasia debate
- Immune to Logic: Some New York City Private Schools Have Dismal Vaccination Rates
- More than 20 cases of measles in California due to 'unvaccinated children'
- Travis County infant dies of whooping cough
- India beats the odds, beats polio
- Polio in Syria: An outbreak that threatens the Middle East
- Pakistan polio vaccinator's murder by militants raises health workers' fears—"Salma Farooqi was tortured and repeatedly shot after involvement in Peshawar's battle against polio for four years."
- Guinea reports Ebola death toll rises to 78
- Ebola Virus Hits Second Country in West Africa—Liberia, and number three is Sierra Leone.
- Canada patient tests negative for Ebola
- Daylight saving time linked to heart attacks: study
- Smoking Proves Hard to Shake Among the Poor NYT
- More drug-resistant infections seen in U.S. children—"A growing number of American children are developing infections caused by a worrisome type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a new study reports."
- Scientists Condemn New FDA Study Saying BPA Is Safe: "It Borders on Scientific Misconduct"—"Researchers working on a joint NIH-FDA program to better regulate harmful chemicals accuse the agency of undermining their research with a flawed and deceptive study."
- Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners "lunatic charlatans"—"Wales to activists who want new rules for Wikipedia: 'No, you have to be kidding me.'"
- Japan Lab Says Stem Cell Research Was Falsified
- Kentucky bill would prohibit filming of farm operations without owner's consent
- 'Pink slime' lawsuit moves forward: Could ABC News be held liable?—"For many Americans, ABC News’s 'pink slime' report was the kind of hard-hitting public interest piece that changes rules and punishes bad actors. But to critics, it became synonymous with media misconduct."
- Russian dairy plant closed after workers bathe in the milk
- Costco to dump $2.6m of peanut butter in New Mexico landfill—"The retailer Costco refused to take shipment of the peanut butter and declined requests to let it be donated to food banks or repackaged or sold to brokers who provide food to institutions like prisons."
- "Sell By" And "Best By" Dates on Food Are Basically Made Up—But Hard to Get Rid Of
- The world's growing love affair with the most wasteful form of coffee there is
- 'Intelligent people are more likely to trust others'
- Why Mentally Ill People Should Have Access to E-Cigarettes
- Tears of the clowns who are out of a job—"Clowns say work has dried up as the 'cynical' public now views them as sinister."
