[Yummy muffins photographed by hmmlargeart] Whole Foods makes you poor and fat with its expensive salad bar's giant containers. [Consumerist] Gustav visits Haiti. [CNN] Shockingly enough, requiring people to have health insurance increases the number of people who have health insurance. [Globe] Ad revenue for the NYT's New England Media Group (which includes the Globe) dropped almost 25% in one year. [Phoenix Mitt's in CO; no VP news. [Herald] Though their predecessors had to......

The adult smoking rate among adults in Massachusetts decreased 8% in 2007 from its 2006 rate. 16.4% of Mass. adults smoked in 2007, compared to 27.8% in 1986. Studies suggest that health concerns and mandatory health insurance (including state-funded help with quitting) were the largest factors in effecting the decrease. Smoking rates also decreased among teens, from 20.5% in 2006 to 17.7% in 2007. Congrats to those who've succeeded in quitting.......

--Only five percent of the commonwealth's taxpayers went uninsured after the new law requiring health insurance went into effect. [WBZ] --William Bulger, former UMass president and brother of Whitey, is back in the news. Bulger's former law partner has been disbarred for encouraging clients to lie about Whitey's whereabouts. William Bulger was investigated but was not charged for the same offense. [Boston Globe] --Surviving Grady has another reason to freak out with the news......

There are lot of things to dislike about the waiting room at your doctor's office—germy fellow patients, antiquated reading material, a complete lack of shampoo and energy drinks for sale. CVS will be able to rectify at least the last issue after regulations approved yesterday by the state's Public Health Council will allow the corporation to place small medical centers within its stores. The regulations will also open the door to companies like Wal-Mart who......