[Health] Florida Reverses, Taking Health Law's Medicaid Expansion

Florida Reverses, Taking Health Law's Medicaid Expansion
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/21/florida-rick-scott-expand-medicaid
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida reversed himself on Wednesday and announced that he would expand his state's Medicaid program to cover the poor, becoming the latest - and, perhaps, most prominent - Republican critic of President Obama's healthcare law to ...

FDA approves new silicone breast implant from Allergan
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/us-breast-implant-approval-idUSBRE91J1E220130220
Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:15pm EST. (Reuters) - Health regulators said on Wednesday they have approved a new silicone gel-filled breast implant made by Allergan Inc. The U.S.

With drug overdose deaths on rise, experts push to recognize signs of addiction
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57570385/with-drug-overdose-deaths-on-rise-experts-push-to-recognize-signs-of-addiction/
Drug addiction can be a hard fact to face and accept, but it's an ongoing problem that needs dire attention. A new report published in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association shows that drug overdose deaths were on the rise for the 11th straight ...

Kellogg's: Whoops, your box of Special K may be filled with broken glass
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/02/20/kellogg-recalls-cereal-over-glass-risk/
The good news: Special K is totally free of horse meat. The bad news: it's totally full of broken glass. Kellogg's is voluntarily recalling 11.2-ounce and 37-ounce packages of Special K with Red Raspberries, as well the as 22.4-ounce twin packs, due to the ...

Bullying Scars the Adult Mind
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/AnxietyStress/37467
Bullied kids were about three to five times more likely to have an anxiety or panic disorder or agoraphobia through their 20s after adjustment for childhood psychiatric problems and family hardships.

New Lung Screen Criteria May Be More Sensitive
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2280741/Smoking-Should-ALL-smokers-40-tested-cancer.html
Using different selection criteria for lung cancer screening may detect more disease than the currently recommended criteria. Point out that the model used incorporated factors such as level of education, family history of lung cancer, and COPD status.

Revealed: Why women are natural chatterboxes (and men won't get a word in ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2281891/Women-really-talk-men-13-000-words-day-precise.html
Ladies, the next time the man in your life complains you talk too much, silence him with science. Tell him - at length, of course - it is all because of the Foxp2 protein.

CDC app lets you solve disease outbreaks at home
http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/cdc-releases-free-disease-detective-ipad-app-1.1163965
This image released by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 shows a new mobile device application designed by the agency.

Study: Predicting our ability to fight the common cold
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57570305/telomeres-may-predict-common-cold-risk-in-adults-what-are-they/
KUSA - Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University say telomeres may predict our ability to fight off the common cold. Telomeres are protective caps made of DNA proteins found on the ends of our cells' chromosomes.

Antioxidants in diet may not protect against dementia, stroke after all
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57570375/antioxidants-in-diet-may-not-protect-against-dementia-stroke-after-all/
Antioxidants, and eating a diet filled with antioxidant-rich foods, have long been linked to disease protection like a reduced risk for dementia and stroke.

Most Expensive Starbucks Coffee Drink Priced at $47.30
http://z6mag.com/featured/most-expensive-starbucks-coffee-drink-priced-at-47-30-1619103.html
It's called the Quadriginoctuple Frap that made world history as the most expensive Starbucks drink on February 9, but wait, it'll cost you $47.30.

FDA Warns on Codeine Use for Children
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PainManagement/PainManagement/37452
Children shouldn't be given codeine to relieve pain after having their tonsils or adenoids removed because the medication can cause death, the Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.

Study Questions Cost Savings of Weight-Loss Surgery
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Surgery/GeneralSurgery/37459
Study Questions Cost Savings of Weight-Loss Surgery. By Charles Bankhead, Staff Writer, MedPage Today. Published: February 20, 2013.

Print Me An Ear: 3-D Printing Tackles Human Cartilage
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/02/20/172493174/print-me-an-ear-3-d-printing-tackles-human-cartilage
An ear, unsurprisingly, is difficult to make from scratch. Ear cartilage is uniquely flexible and strong and has been impossible for scientists to reproduce with synthetic prostheses.

Napa Valley winery ages wine -- in the ocean
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/charleston-s-winery-age-wine-ocean-article-1.1269069?localLinksEnabled=false
A California winery is conducting an aquatic experiment: Napa Valley-based Mira Winery is aging 48 bottles of Cabernet Sauvignon in the Atlantic Ocean.

Colorado Woman Denied Massage Because of Weight
http://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-woman-denied-massage-weight/story?id=18548948
When Laura Smith entered the Natural Healing Center in Aurora, Colo., last month, she was hoping for a massage to relieve the aftereffects of a half-marathon she had run the day before.