Item, from Modern Healthcare magazine: Dialysis wastewater could be recycled for agricultural uses, saving dialysis centers money to boot. Researchers writing in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases say this is water pre-dialysis that is rejected by the reverse osmosis process, not contaminated post-dialysis.

Researcher say the savings could be 7.13 billion gallons, about the annual water usage of a city the size of Salt Lake City.

Another item from Modern Healthcare: New high-tech beds at Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital can translate 34 difference phrases and questions in languages such as French, Spanish and Vietnamese. The 105 talking beds also remind medical staff to wash their hands.

Item, San Jose Mercury News: Blue Shield of California wants to highlight how vulnerable people feel when they lack health insurance. And so the company is displaying 100 naked bronze statutes, with fig leaves, at shopping centers around the state.