The News and Nothing But the News

Friday, April 20, 2012

Well, maybe a snide comment or two. In the news today:

• Fox News: Hospitals are making progress in reducing the spread of care-related infections.
• Reuters and CBC News: Meanwhile, thanks to the vaccination-averse among us, cases of measles hit a 15-year high in 2011 and a whooping cough outbreak is expanding in Canada's Fraser Valley.
• WTVG: Another reason to exercise: lower Alzheimer's risk.
• And from the Commonwealth Fund (via U.S. News & World Report): "One in four working-age Americans went without health insurance for at least some time in 2011. And the majority of those people—nearly 70 percent—lacked coverage for more than a year..."
• Finally, from CBS News: researchers successfully grew hair on a bald mouse.

So many things I could say, but for now I'll just thank all those researchers hard at work on such an important medical mystery. I mean, c'mon, why work on things like CANCER when there's toupee-wearing mice out there needing our help?