Healthcare update

Making a trachea from scratch
The procedure — an implant made for Andemariam Teklesenbet Beyene — marks another step forward for the field of regenerative medicine.

Transplanted trachea, born in lab, is one of several engineered-organ success stories

Major Health Problems Linked to Poverty

Calorie counts don’t change most people’s dining-out habits, experts say

States given flexibility on insurance exchanges

Scientists Discover Gonorrhea "Superbug"

Where Americans Live the Longest, and Why

After Much Scrutiny, HHS Releases Health Insurance Exchange Rules

Health: spending continues to outpace economic growth in most OECD countries

Access to grocers doesn't improve diets, study finds. The results run counter to the idea that more supermarkets can curb obesity in low-income neighborhoods.

Why do Americans die younger than Britons?

Smoking alone is responsible for one out of every five deaths in the US, the professor says, yet the US has not been as tough as Australia in restricting tobacco advertising and public smoking.
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The US could also save 100,000 lives a year by reducing salt in people's diets, since high blood pressure kills one in six people, Dr Mokdad says.
Then there's the big issue - about one in three adults is classified as obese. That's about 10 times as many as in long-living countries like Japan, according to OECD figures.
But the US is a big country, and while parts of Mississippi have a male life expectancy of 67, behind nations like the Philippines, women in areas of Florida live as long, on average, as the Japanese, who top the longevity rankings.
It is precisely this kind of inequality that goes some way to explain why the US - and the UK to a lesser degree - lag behind other countries, according to Danny Dorling, a professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield in the UK.
He believes a more even distribution of wealth, even if the average were lower, could mean longer lives for everyone.