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This week Healthland turned 1. We launched on Sept. 13, 2010, and now here we are, nearly 3,000 posts and 12 months later. We’d like to take a moment to thank our readers for paying attention, sharing our work and giving us feedback. Let’s all raise a sensible glass of red wine and toast the next year ahead.
The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who question how the state can guarantee a drug untested for lethal injection won’t cause pain and suffering for the condemned.
A new study finds that babies born by c-section are twice as likely to be obese by age 3 as those delivered vaginally.
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
