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After Surgery, Surprise $117,000 Medical Bill From Doctor He Didn’t Know By Elisabeth Rosenthal (The New York Times)
A History Of Opioids In America By Ramtin Arablouei and Rund Abdelfatah (NPR)
America has an infant mortality crisis. Meet the black doulas trying to change that By Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)
America’s Health Rankings (United Health Foundation)
An Epidemic Is Killing Thousands Of Coal Miners. Regulators Could Have Stopped It By Howard Berkes, Huo Jingnan, and Robert Benincasa (NPR)
An Ounce of Prevention: A Community Health Documentary from Capital Public Radio
Bad Diets Are Responsible For More Deaths Than Smoking, Global Study Finds By Allison Aubrey (NPR)
Can Stress be Toxic? By Daisy Rosario (Latino USA)
Cardiac Rehab Saves Lives. So Why Don't More Heart Patients Sign Up? (NPR)
Childhood Asthma: A Lingering Effect of Redlining By Kriston Capps (City Lab)
Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds By Gina Kolata (The New York Times)
Doctors Make House Calls On Tablets Carried By Houston Firefighters By Carrie Feibel (NPR)
Dollars for Doctors: How Industry Money Reaches Physicians (ProPublica)
Drug Overdoses Propel Rise in Mortality Rates of Young Whites By Gina Kolata and Sarah Cohen (The New York Times)
For A Healthier Planet, Eat These 50 Foods, Campaign Urges By Eleanor Beardsley (NPR)
He Was Dying. Antibiotics Weren’t Working. Then Doctors Tried a Forgotten Treatment. By Maryn McKenna (Mother Jones)
How Much Is That MRI, Really? Massachusetts Shines A Light By Martha Bebinger (NPR)
Inequality.org
I read 1,182 emergency room bills this year. Here’s what I learned. By Sarah Kliff (Vox)
In Redesigned Room, Hospital Patients May Feel Better Already By Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times)
In The Hospital, A Bad Translation Can Destroy A Life By Kristian Foden-Vencil (NPR)
International Data on Cosmetic Surgery By Lisa Wade (The Society Pages)
In World's Richest Country, the Uninsured Wait in Line Overnight for a Chance at Health Care By Rose Aguilar (TruthOut)
It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why. By Eliza Barclay, Julia Belluz, and Javier Zarracina (Vox)
It's Not Just Salt, Sugar, Fat: Study Finds Ultra-Processed Foods Drive Weight Gain By Maria Godoy (NPR)
Life And Debt: Searching For A Million-Dollar Miracle By Jeffrey Young (HuffPost)
Maggie Mahar’s Health Beat Blog
Majority of California Adults Have Prediabetes or Diabetes, A Third of Young Adults are Prediabetic (UCLA)
Mapping the Nation's Well-Being (The New York Times)
Medical Costs Rise as Retirees Winter in Florida By Elisabeth Rosenthal (The New York Times)
Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s By Elisabeth Rosenthal (The New York Times)
New Law’s Demands on Doctors Have Many Seeking a Network By Abby Goodnough (The New York Times)
Obama’s Health Law: Who Was Helped Most By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
One Nation Under Stress: the documentary lifting the lid on American anxiety By Amanda Holpuch (The Guardian)
Paying Till It Hurts By Elisabeth Rosenthal (The New York Times Series)
Patient Safety: Exploring Quality of Care in the U.S. (ProPublica)
Paying Till It Hurts: A Case Study in High Costs (A multi-part series from The New York Times)
Post Mortem - Death Investigation in America (PBS)
Purdue Pharma taps a Gilded Age history of pharmaceutical fraud By Jonathan S. Jones (The Conversation)
Raising the American Weakling By Tom Vanderbilt (Nautilus)
Sick Around the World (PBS - Frontline)
Smoking Proves Hard to Shake Among the Poor By Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff (The New York Times)
Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Learn About The Person, Not Just The Patient By Bram Sable-Smith (NPR)
Study Shatters Preconceived Notions About Urban Vs. Rural Obesity By Susan Brink (NPR)
10 Places Where Health Insurance Costs The Most By Jordan Rau (NPR)
The Cancer Capital of America By Suzanne Zuppello (The Outline)
The Costs of Health Care, Political and Financial — An interview with Maggie Mahar (NPR)
The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood By Raymond Barglow (Skeptic)
‘There’s something terribly wrong’: Americans are dying young at alarming rates By Joel Achenbach (The Washington Post)
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease By Maria Popova (Brain Pickings)
The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder By Alan Schwarz (The New York Times)
These Are the World’s Healthiest Nations By Lee J Miller and Wei Lu (Bloomberg)
The Struggle To Hire And Keep Doctors In Rural Areas Means Patients Go Without Care By Kirk Siegler (NPR)
The U.S. Suicide Rate Is at Its Highest in a Half-Century By Jared Keller (Pacific Standard)
They Want It to Be Secret: How a Common Blood Test Can Cost $11 or Almost $1,000 By Margot Sanger-Katz (The New York Times)
Unnatural Causes
What If America Had Canada's Healthcare System? By Olga Khazan (The Atlantic)
Where Poor and Uninsured Americans Live (The New York Times)
Where you live in America determines when you’ll die By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
White House Plan To Stop HIV Faces A Tough Road In Oklahoma By Jackie Fortier (NPR)
Who Would Have Health Insurance if Medicaid Expansion Weren't Optional By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz
World Health Statistics (WHO)