The average Japanese visits a doctor about 14.5 times per year — three times as often as the U.S. average. They get twice as many CAT scans per capita as Americans do and three times as many MRI scans. (H.T. to Marginal Revolution.)
Medicare will pay $8,000 for a computer that will turn typed words into speech for the speech-impaired. It will not pay $450 for an iPhone that will do the same thing.
The pancreas. Gone awry, it is the source of diabetes, affecting 23 million people and it is at the front lines of our expanding waist lines.
Sixty percent of adults can’t digest milk, including most of Asia, half of Africa and 3/4 of Mediterranean.
One FDA bureaucrat is holding up many new cancer treatments.
One more study showing Pay for Performance (the Administration’s only real suggestion for controlling costs) doesn’t work. (Gated but with abstract.)
Two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements, but what’s in them? They cause 9% of liver injuries.
Can a stomach staple affect the obesity of your future children? Apparently, yes.
Some really neat weather photos. (The subjects could be hazardous to your health.)
Some other neat photos. (Non-hazardous.)
TV Doc orders every test imaginable: Are patients/viewers getting the wrong lesson?
Money makes you most happy if you don’t spend it on yourself.
Heroic myths dispelled: Neither Peary nor Cook ever reached the North Pole.
Star Parker responds to the left’s playing of the race card.
Obama spills the beans: opponents should shut up.
Hollywood actors make pro-Obama video shown to school children. Message: We can solve all the world’s problems without knowing anything about economics (or science, or history, or….. anything else, for that matter).
MoveOn.org video promotes Obama Care.
NEA grants to be based on how much the artist helps advance Obama’s goals.
At three hospitals you can make an ER appointment online: See a doctor within 15 minutes of the scheduled time or it's free!
Placebos are becoming more effective. (HT to Marginal Revolution)
On vacation, don't get sick: Two dozen hospitals near popular travel destinations have death rates among the worst in the USA.
Satirical video on Obama's proposed single-payer system.
Congressman Mike Rogers' opening statement on health care reform in Washington, D.C.
Video response to: Why we need socialized medicine.
First anti-Obama Care ad by 60 Plus, a senior's group.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce TV ad against Obama Care.
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