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Is America’s ongoing obesity epidemic merely a tale of changing social and cultural norms, or do our genes play a starring role as well? Or is the key contained in the nexus between the two? New research sheds light on the historically shifting role of a gene that raises one's risk of obesity.

Does your work from 2014 deserve to be honored? Here's a round up of journalism awards you should be submitting to.

A recent California survey found that even the highest-rated provider group received only a C+ rating from its patients. Does this reveal deep flaws in the way care is delivered or have patients come to expect too much from health care providers?

Health-oriented products take the main stage this week at the Consumer Electronics Show. The show's Digital Health Summit at the CES took over its own event arena this year, showcasing an array of futuristic health technology.

Health care providers aren't perfect. None of us are. But in a recent report on patient experiences, California physician groups were assigned a rating on a scale of 0 to 100. Not one group managed to score in the 80s or 90s. What's going on here?

How do you make sense of a decision made by key players outside your coverage area that affects your community like a punch in the gut?

New research links the presence of smartphones and screens in kids' bedrooms to less sleep in fourth- and seventh-graders. And less sleep can be a risk factor for obesity, poorer school performance and other health problems. But kids getting less sleep is not a new trend.

As a federal "funding bump" expires, the payments California doctors receive for seeing Medicaid patients are dramatically decreasing. At the same time, the state is imposing a 10 percent fee cut that was approved in 2011 but is just now taking effect.

Project HOPE is looking to fill a position focusing on Health Affairs Blog and Health Policy Briefs. Also, the Institute for Justice & Journalism is accepting applications for the Journalism Fellowships on Immigrant Families.