Article Roundup

Here, some stuff you can read.

It’s easy to become obese in America. These 7 charts explain why.

Why would you get an intestinal infection, like C. diff, from treating a different illness with antibiotics?

Tongue microbiome research underscores importance of dental health
Elderly individuals with fewer teeth, poor dental hygiene, and more cavities constantly ingest more toxic microbiota, which could be harmful to their respiratory health.

Robber blames doctor and pharmacist for crimes, sues them for $49,000
Bishop’s lawsuit claims her naturopathic doctor, Vanessa Esteves, and an unidentified pharmacist for Safeway prescribed and dispensed to her the mind-altering combination of drugs a few days before police say she frightened employees at the shoe store and bookstore and made off with the cash.

Scientists find that common dietary elements cure lethal infections, eliminating the need for antibiotics
Salk Institute researchers report that giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent.

Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus
I don't think this was "laziness", Homo erectus seems to have a different brain metabolism, and a less urgent need to regulate their glucose levels.

Longer articles:

The simple change that can save patient's lives
Reduce the sound level in hospitals.  (yo Jamie, read this one)

Scientists Are Developing a Unique Identifier for Your Brain
They are mapping the connections between areas, and think it is unique to each individual.

The Scientist Who Scrambled Darwin’s Tree of Life
How the microbiologist Carl Woese fundamentally changed the way we think about evolution and the origins of life.

States of Despair: A Closer Look at Rising State Death Rates from Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide
my two cents: Death rates have risen 40% because opiates are shutting down immune systems, and people are going septic all over America.

No healthy level of alcohol consumption, says major study