Hits & Misses – 2008/12/18
Why the Mount Sinai ER is called the "knife and gun club." "Each shooting victim costs up to $12,000 to care for, and the patients rarely have health insurance or qualify for Medicaid."
What you don't know can hurt you. "Among 90 FDA-approved drugs between 1998 and 2000, there were 909 clinical trials: of these 394 were published in peer-reviewed medical journals and 515 were unpublished."
Pedestrians killed by vehicles – Manhattan is the worst borough. "Men and women who will never see 64 again were four times as likely as everyone else to be killed this way. Those who were 75 years old and up had a death rate more than five times that of their younger neighbors."
Listening to music may have had evolutionary survival value. It can aid cognitive recovery, promote the functioning of blood vessels, help treat depression and enhance athletic endurance.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CPab8U5zTU
Heal Better, Feel Better – With Music
The interesting question is not: Does music have evolutionary survival value? Obviously it does or it would not have reached its importance in our liives that it has today.
The interesting question is: why does it have evolutionary survival value?
I hate to say this, but I think Manhattan may have found the solution to the problem of elderly entitlements.
Interesting idea, David. But don’t slight the other boroughs. Apparently, they are all doing their part.