Tobacco companies ordered to admit they lied over smoking danger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/28/tobacco-companies-lied-smoking-danger
Major tobacco companies who spent decades denying they lied to the US public about the dangers of cigarettes must spend their own money on a public advertising campaign saying they did lie, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Aids-Free Africa Can Be Realised
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/infected-and-unaware-hiv-hitting-america-s-youth-298276
An estimated 34.2 million people around the world are infected with the virus that causes AIDS, H.I.V. The scary part, what is disconcerting is that 23.5 million or 70% of those suffering from AIDS live in my part of the world, sub-Saharan Africa.
Pioneering surgeon Dr. Joseph Murray remembered
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49973865/ns/health-health_care/
Dr. Joseph Murray is an organ transplant pioneer who conducted the first kidney transplant in 1954 and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990.
Researchers develop new method for forecasting flu outbreaks
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/11/28/3643037.htm
Scientists have developed a computer model for predicting flu outbreaks weeks in advance, raising the tantalizing possibility of "flu forecasts" that might one day help guide such decisions as when to ramp up vaccine production or close schools.
How Hospitals Get Away with Billing Medicare for Preventable Complications
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/hospitals-heighten-efforts-to-avoid-readmissions/
(A) When hospitals leave catheters in people's bladders for too long, people get urinary infections. (B) Third party payers like Medicare and insurance companies are then billed for the cost of treating these infections.
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