Morning health reads - Thu, Jun 14 2018

The Washington Post – Jun 13, 5:00 PM

Rahul Desikan sits at his dining room table, a large computer screen before him, and works on his latest scientific paper. He types a single letter, then another, then another. For a man in a hurry, desperately trying to rid the world of terrible…

The study was a landmark, one of the few attempts to rigorously evaluate a particular diet. And the results were striking: A Mediterranean diet, with abundant vegetables and fruit, can slash the risk of heart attacks and strokes. But now that…

Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin. From 1996 to 2002, Purdue pursued nearly every avenue in the drug supply and prescription sales chain — a strategy now cast as reckless…

Illinois lawmakers have asked state child welfare officials to explain why they routinely fail to find better homes for hundreds of children in psychiatric hospitals, leaving them trapped for weeks and sometimes months. State Sen. Julie Morrison, a…

“Oh my God, we dropped her!” Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her right side where her hip had recently been replaced. She cried out in pain. A hospital clinician later…

Authors Authors and affiliations Timothy S. Anderson Chester B. Good Walid F. Gellad Concise Research Reports First Online: This is a preview of subscription content, log in to check access. Study concept and design: All authors Analysis and…

As prices increasingly become the focal point of the health care cost conundrum, journalists are playing a key role in highlighting inconsistent — and often ludicrous — price tags. From Elisabeth Rosenthal' s groundbreaking New York…

Darrell Kunitomi points to a mural in the Art Deco-decorated Globe Lobby of the Los Angeles Times, an image of the recently canonized Junipero Serra with an indigenous person. “Father Serra is now a saint, we have a California saint,”…