Say what you will, Shakespeare, but a McNugget by any other name is just not as tasty. At least, not to the 3- to 5-year-old set.Asked to sample two identical foods from the fast-food giant McDonald’s, children preferred the taste of the version branded with the restaurant’s familiar “Golden Arches” to one extracted from unmarked paper packaging, say researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. [click link for full article]

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have jointly released revised Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina (UA)/Non-ST- Elevation Myocardial Infarction (NSTEMI). [click link for full article]

“Does Managed Care Hurt Health? Evidence From Medicaid Mothers,” Review of Economics and Statistics: Medicaid managed care in California has reduced the quality of prenatal care for pregnant women and increased the risk of low birthweight, premature birth and neonatal death, according to the study. Anna Aizer of [click link for full article]

A potential new biomarker for heart failure may be more powerful than established measures in identifying patients at increased risk for death from several causes. [click link for full article]

Women’s health is “more at risk” now than it was before the Supreme Court upheld the so-called “partial-birth” abortion ban, New York Times columnist Judith Warner writes in an opinion piece. [click link for full article]

Some women who are “disillusioned with routine use of drugs and medical interventions during labor” are practicing belly dancing and other “alternative techniques,” such as hypnotherapy and “water births,” during childbirth, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to anthropologist Sheila Kitzinger, belly dancing originated as a childbirth ritual. [click link for full article]

John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, did not “let the facts get in the way of his ideological attack” on legislation that would expand SCHIP in a July 27 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Robert Greenstein, executive director of the [click link for full article]

A new study by the Partnership for Prevention suggests that over 100,000 lives could be saved every year in the US by increasing the use of five preventive health services. The biggest impact would be saving 45,000 lives by encouraging more adults to take a daily low dose of aspirin to prevent heart disease, said the report which was sponsored by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the WellPoint Foundation. [click link for full article]

Tangerine Wellness, the first incentive-based corporate wellness program that reduces the cost of healthcare for employers, has implemented its cost-saving program at National Guard Products, the industry innovation leader in manufacturing of weather stripping and threshold products. National Guard Products turned to Tangerine Wellness to support the company’s belief that a healthier workforce would improve productivity and reduce healthcare costs. [click link for full article]

Women who have cosmetic breast implant surgery are three times more likely to commit suicide compared with women in the general population, suggests a new study of women in Sweden. The researchers said surgeons should carry out pre-surgery mental health screening and follow up monitoring of patients in receipt of cosmetic breast implants. [click link for full article]