Let-them-eat-cake award goes to: Michelle Obama for her $375,000 vacation.
$4,900 for 14 tiny stitches? ER bill deconstructed.
Pastor opposes “consumer-driven religion.” He became a minister to meet his needs, not your needs.
Tendency to obesity is set before birth in the developing brain. At least that’s the way it works in rats.
Orangutans burn fewer calories than a human couch potato. They also have potbellies.
Swedish emergency room patient tires of waiting and sews up his own leg. Hospital complaint to police: He used a needle and thread without permission.
Adults consume more than 3,400 mgs of sodium on average…more than twice the amount recommended. And this does not include salt used in cooking or sprinkled from a salt shaker.
“Stardust” is more than a song. Each speck is about one-25,000 of an inch across.
High heels are unhealthy. We needed a study to know this?
One in five employers is “seriously” considering dropping health benefits.
British NHS turns to private sector clinics. The care is cheaper and better.
What happens when emergency room patients ask to be seen by a physician of their same gender, race or religious background? Don’t bother if you are a white male.
Annenberg Center: Andy Griffith and the White House are misleading seniors. Fails fact-check scrutiny.
How can ObamaCare be constitutional? Pete Stark: “The federal government can do almost anything in this country.”
New health law finally explained. (Rube Goldberg diagram.)
Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit eligibility flow chart. If you can figure this out, you deserve a tax break.
Japanese women are expected to live longer than anyone else. But before you start doing everything Japanese, note that men live the longest in Qatar.
1% of babies are born at home. The risks are higher.
Study: A standout kindergarten teacher is worth about $320,000 a year.
Human evolution continues. Tibetans may have evolved to cope with low oxygen levels in the last 3,000 years.
Study: Loneliness is bad for your health: It’s as bad as alcoholism, smoking and over-eating.
Why is it so hard for the FDA to approve an anti-obesity drug? Because no drug can be as safe as exercise and watching your diet.
New York City infant mortality in 1914 was nearly one-quarter (24%) of all live births. More than two-thirds of infant deaths may have been due to unpasteurized milk.
Is your spouse really your spouse? Between two percent to five percent of spouses and dependants on the company health plan fit neither category.
Recession? What recession? Michelle Obama has reserved about 30 rooms for herself and her daughter, their friends and bodyguards at a five-star hotel in Benahavis (Spain), near Marbella.
Top ten public health disasters of the 20th century: Includes AIDS, black lung disease, cholera, Hong Kong flu, influenza, measles, polio, and rubella.
One in six primary care doctors leave their field in midcareer. More than 20 percent cited long hours and administrative hassles as reasons.
