Health Headlines for Tuesday, December 27
Opioids Contribute to a Rising Death Toll: 28,647 in 2014
New York Times
Between 1999 and 2014, drug overdose deaths in the United States nearly tripled.
Businesses, pols leery of imposing New York soda tax to help fund healthcare
New York Daily News
The idea of the state imposing a soda tax to help fund healthcare is not going down easy with some business and legislative officials.
What Is Bariatric Surgery, and How Does It Work?
New York Times
Bariatric surgery is an option that obesity medicine specialists say is too often ignored or dismissed.
Medical data to be shared across state lines
Press Republican
A landmark move by the Health Information Exchange of New York and University of Vermont Medical Center will give many New York health-care providers more data on their patients than ever before.