Heavy drinkers, health costs, living forever young and more

Having trouble viewing this email? [Click here]( Saturday, April 1, 2017 [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( [How We Doctors Are Failing Our Patients Who Drink Too Much]( "As the fourth-leading cause of preventable death, alcohol is the most common problem that I encounter as a primary care doctor, and the one that I feel least able to manage." [Dear Secretary Price: For My Dad's Sake, Protect The FDA]( If you found yourself in an elevator with the U.S. health secretary, what would you tell him? Dr. Samantha Harrington points to the need to defend the FDA's rigorous standards for drugs. [Gov. Baker To Work With White House On Opioid Addiction]( President Trump will tap Gov. Charlie Baker to serve on a new commission to address the nation's opioid addiction epidemic which will be led by Baker friend Gov. Chris Christie. [Radio Boston: Transforming Spinach Leaves Into Heart Tissue]( You knew that spinach was good for your heart. But researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are now taking spinach leaves and transforming them into human heart tissue...that beats. [Here And Now: Restaurant Portion Sizes Contribute To Obesity Epidemics]( Most restaurants pack their plates with portions that are often two or three times the recommended serving size. And because people don't always know how many calories they're consuming when they dine out, they often eat all that food. [On Point: Do We Really Want To Live Forever Young?]( News on aging and staying young this week. NASA, leaning in to a new treatment that could keep astronauts from aging out on the long trip to Mars. Space travel accelerates aging. On Earth, there may be no more rapt audience that the billionaires of Silicon Valley. "Super-longevity," even immortality, has become an obsession of the rich tech set. They want it all, and are investing big brains and bucks to get it. [Cognoscenti: Memo To The GOP: We Already Have A Conservative Health Plan]( "While Republicans marketed their dumber-than-dirt plan as a conservative replacement for the Affordable Care Act, they were wrong. We already have a conservative health plan. It's called Obamacare, and, by the way, it's not exploding." [Like us on Facebook]( [Follow us on Twitter]( [View on Instagram]( WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215 [SafeUnsubscribe™ {EMAIL}]( [Forward this email]( | [Update Profile]( | [About our service provider]( Sent by wburtoday@wbur.org in collaboration with [Constant Contact]( [Try it free today](