Saturday, February 21, 2015

Saturday Stories: Kidneys, Childhood Heroes, Healing, and Cholesterol

Jason Beaubien on NPR covers some new clues in the tragic story of the mystery kidney disease plaguing Central American sugar cane workers.

Rachel Kadish in the NYT's Motherlode with an insightful story on how today's children's heroes are born, not made.

Caroline Alexander in National Geographic with an incredibly moving, and just plain incredible, mixed media presentation on healing injured soldiers.

Dr. David Katz and his piece unscrambling the new cholesterol recommendation not to worry too much about dietary cholesterol.