For Valentine's Day, A New View of the Heart

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's what we're checking out at Reporting on Health today:

The Heart: For some highbrow Valentine's Day reading, NPR offers a timely overview and book excerpt from The Sublime Heart by Stephen Amidon, "which traces the story of the human heart through the world of science, history, culture and our bodies."

Environmental Health:  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has put five chemical manufacturers on notice that the names of potentially harmful chemicals will no longer be protected as "confidential business information," PollutionOnline.com reports. Wait, they were classified before? Yikes.

Organ Transplants: Where you live determines how quickly you can get a liver transplant, reports Lauran Neergaard for the Associated Press. Check out Neergaard's tips for covering medical research, too.  

Obama Budget: Katherine Hobson of the Wall St. Journal lays out the budget's health care elements, which include a two-year Medicare "doc fix."

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