4/1/14 Republcans Going After Medicare Again at; 

  http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/what-ryans-budget-means-doesnt-mean-medicare-n69011

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/us/politics/paul-ryan-budget.html?hpw&rref=politics

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/paul-ryan-budget-medicare-health-care-105234.html



2/13/14
Medicare Advantage Plans: Who Wins and Who Loses?

Senior Benefits At Risk?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/doctors-cut-from-medicare-advantage-networks-struggle-with-what-to-tell-patients/2014/01/25/541bfbd8-77b4-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html

 2/18/14

How many parents and in what states are parents not having their kids vaccinated?

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/vaccine-exemptions-states-pertussis-map?google_editors_picks=true

 2/20/14

Obama Drops Plan to Reduce Social Security

Good, Mr. President.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/198815-obama-abandons-cut-to-social-security

 2/21/14

White House Cuts Medicare 2%

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1kf3gz5savq69/?&v=c&th=14456c36d34bc416

 2/24/14

http://thecelebritycafe.com/feature/2014/02/high-number-medicare-patients-are-getting-painkillers-multiple-doctors

 2/24/14

National Hospital Rankings.

http://healthinsight.org/rankings/hospitals

"The United States spends about 18 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, nearly twice as much as most other developed countries. The Congressional Budget Office has said that if medical costs continue to grow unabated, “total spending on health care would eventually account for all of the country’s economic output.” And it identified federal spending on government health programs as a primary cause of long-term budget deficits. "

 2/25/14

Medicare: Whether you are admitted as "Inpatient" or "Under Observation"

It could mean thousands of dollars in costs for you.

 http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/54026469/#54026469

2/25/14

Acetaminophen linked to ADHD in childen of mother who took the drug which is in many many drugs, most over the counter. Hundreds of drugs use it.

http://www.knowyourdose.org/common-medications

http://www.wbay.com/story/24818139/2014/02/25/study-acetaminophen-tied-to-risk-of-adhd

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/25/us-prenatal-acetaminophen-idUSBREA1O1UO20140225 



2/27/14
A doctor's stethoscope can can carry germs. Mabe?

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/topics/HealthDay685307_20140227_Doctors__Germ-Laden_Stethoscope_May_Spread_Nasty_Bacteria.html


3/2/14

All about anti-depressants. The News is Not Good.



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140225122429.htm

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110719121354.htm

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101122111510.htm 


3/11/14

One Social Security Mistake Not to Make

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/one-call-social-security-doom-financial-future/

 3/13/14

Key Discovery in how to prevent heart failure?

"Subsequently, the researchers at the Cardiovascular Research Center at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that injecting a small piece of RNA to inhibit the effects of miR-25 dramatically halted heart failure progression in mice. In addition, it also improved their cardiac function and survival."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140312150101.htm

 3/23/14 Cause of Sepsis Identified?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140321094859.htm

 3/26/14
 

1 in 25 hospital patients acquire hospital associated infections. 243 thousand deaths

http://thegazette.com/2014/03/26/cdc-1-in-25-patients-contracts-an-infection-during-hospital-stay/

 3/26/14

http://truth-out.org/news/item/22693-of-patients-and-prices

 4/6/14

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140403212615.htm

   http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/data-uncover-nations-top-medicare-billers/2014/04/08/9101a77e-bf39-11e3-b574-f8748871856a_story.html 

Put in your doctors name- find out how much he gets in medicare payments

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/medicare-doctors-database/

 http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/an-effective-eye-drug-is-available-for-50-but-many-doctors-choose-a-2000-alternative/2013/12/07/1a96628e-55e7-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html

 Medicare prices

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/medicare-pricing-drives-high-health-care-costs/2013/12/31/24befa46-7248-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html

 4/20/14


“You don’t train someone for all of those years in [medicine]… and then have them run a claims processing operation for insurance companies.”

 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/14/how-being-a-doctor-became-the-most-miserable-profession.html

5/2/14

The Antibiotic Crisis: Bigger Than the Aids Crisis? CDC Report

  http://www.timeslive.co.za/Feeds/2014/05/02/antibiotic-crisis-bigger-than-aids 

http://www.dw.de/antibiotic-resistant-germs-a-bacterial-time-bomb/a-17606199

The most deadly animal

 http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-mind-blowing-infographic-mosquiotes-2014-4#!HmAoq


5/8/14

Hospitals Doing Too Many C Sections? Why? New Consumer Report

 http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/hospitals-performing-c-sections-reports-article-1.1785129

5/11/14
Source of many hospital associated infections

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140506120236.htm

 5/24/14
New Hope in the fight against bacteria resistent infection?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140522175719.htm

 5/31/14

The 1,000 dollar pill. Big battle starting between insurance companies and drug companies

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/206797-insurance-lobby-lets-beat-government-to-drug-cost-reform

 6/1/14

Two or more slices of white bread per day is bad for you?

http://m.timesofindia.com/Home/Science/White-bread-consumption-linked-to-obesity/articleshow/35810207.cms

6/2/14

Revolution in hard to cure cancers?

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/health/article/Revolution-in-cancer-treatment-reported-5523437.php

 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/immune-therapy-shows-promise-against-cervical-cancer/

6/2/14
Surgery days and time may affect mortality rates in hospitals?

http://news.health.com/2014/06/02/does-timing-play-a-role-in-survival-after-hospital-admission-surgery/

6/10/14

Red Meat Linked to Breast Cancer?

http://www.kansascity.com/living/article518142/Study-Red-meat-possibly-linked-to-breast-cancer.html

7/10/14

Millions More Get Health Unsurance Under ObamaCare

  http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80771286/

8/17/14

Doctors on the take, Drug Companies Falsify, Pills That Kill?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/medmatters

8/18/14
Anaesthesia, quantum mechanics, and consciousness

Anaesthesia

"Anaesthetics.
General anaesthetic is an essential part of modern medicine. Millions of surgical procedures, many life-saving, simply could not be performed without rendering the patient unconscious with one of a long list of drugs that induce anaesthesia. But, we don't know how they work.
Part of this mystery is because we're not entirely sure what we mean when we say unconscious. But part of it is that there's a whole fleet of different molecules than can work as an anaesthetic, so there's no well-known pathway we can study. Neuroscientist, Luca Turin at the Alexander Fleming Research Center in Greece thinks that the answer to how they work, could lie, not at the chemical level, but at the quantum level."

From:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04d4tzp

See also"

http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~sreinis/quantum.html

9/114 New Heart Failure Drug

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/-most-exciting-ever-novartis-drug-points-to-huge-sales/1284733

9/2/14

10 Medical and Other Gadgets Which Will Change Your Life

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=61426&authorid=121255

9/6/14

Projections on Health Care Costs and Outcomes?

"The United States is expected to spend more than $3 trillion on health care this year, far above any other economically advanced country. Yet Americans are not appreciably healthier, and much what they spend appears to go for tests and treatments of questionable value. Fraud also siphons off tens of billions of dollars a year."

From:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/goverment-forecasts-rising-health-care-inflation/

 9/8/14

Each Day in Hospital Increases Change of Infection?

"Hospital-acquired infections represent a large and possibly preventable segment of hospital-related deaths and have been rising in recent years. A European study suggested that Gram-negative infections account for two thirds of the 25,000 hospital-acquired infection deaths each year. There is currently little data on how many infections and deaths are caused by Gram-negative bacteria, although in 2011 the CDC estimated that there were roughly 722,000 hospital-acquired infections that caused approximately 75,000 deaths."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140907181158.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

9/9/14

Conflicted Medicine. Excellent Podcasts

http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/medmatters

9/9/14 Medical Errors Cost Lives?

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/106409

9/10/14

"Researchers found that the patients who used benzodiazepines for three months or more increased their risk for suffering Alzheimer’s disease by 51 percent compared to those who did not take the drug. The results found the strength of association increased with longer exposure to benzodiazepines."

List of Drugs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_benzodiazepines

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/10/anxiety-medications-may-be-linked-to-risk-alzheimers-researchers-say/

 9/24/14

"According to the study, the U.S.'s private-based healthcare system not only produced poorer health outcomes and increased the wealth-health inequality gap, it also left the wealthiest Americans, with access to the "best money can offer," still worse off than the poorest citizens in the U.K., Germany, Sweden, and the Czech Republic."

From:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140923110756.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

9/30/14

"Payments to doctors from big pharma and other companies to be revealed in new government data base.

If the Sunshine Act disclosures work, patients, insurance companies, and the public will get a better sense of whether and when relationships with manufacturers influence doctors’ decisions. Do surgeons collecting speaking fees from a medical device company use that company’s implants more often than competing products? Maybe there are clinical reasons to do so. But patients will now get the chance to ask."

Details at:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-29/get-ready-to-learn-a-lot-more-about-doctors-payments-from-pharma#r=shared

10/8/14

Use of antibiotics in livestock and the growth of antibiotic superbugs

 http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/10/are-fdas-new-rules-weaning-meat-industry-antibiotics

 10/9/14

"When Staphylococcus aureus bacteria gain access to a patient's bloodstream, the infection then becomes life threatening. Antibiotics can often cure this infection, but without any antibiotic treatment, more than 80% of patients with bloodstream infections are likely to die. But what's the most appropriate antibiotic to use?"

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120816201443.htm

One in three patients given the wrong or least effective medication for blood infections?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140318185826.htm

"Bloodstream infections are a leading cause of suffering and death in the United States. As many as 250,000 bloodstream infections occur each year in the US and can cost up to $37,000 per patient. Some bacteria that cause these infections have adapted to the antibiotics designed to kill them, leaving the drugs less effective."

 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140318185826.htm

Cathers and Infection Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130519191412.htm

10/21/14

Doctors Tell All About the Health Care System

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/11/doctors-tell-all-and-its-bad/380785/2/

 11/30/14

Microbes in ICU may be key to Sepsis?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140923090208.htm

1/1/15
Health Care Testing in Florida?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/medical-costs-rise-as-retirees-winter-in-south.html?_r=0

2/19/15
Super Bugs on the Looase in LA?

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2015/02/19/5524760/7-infected-2-dead-after-superbug.html

2/25/15

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/health/researchers-call-for-more-study-of-anesthesia-risks-to-young-children.html?_r=1

2/25/15

http://www.propublica.org/series/dollars-for-docs

7/15/15
Anti-Depressants and Brain Bleeds

https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dJb8gi1o93NyDVMuiUXCO2M7zmvGM&authuser=0&topic=m 

 7/15/15 National Surgeon's Scorecard

https://projects.propublica.org/surgeons/