Category: Interesting Links

St. Valentine was right: married men and women are more likely to live longer, to recover from illness quicker and to be healthier, both mentally and physically.

Having solved our other problems, the Texas Legislature now tackles something really important: It could require a UT-A&M football game.

The price of a hip replacement varies by a factor of more than 10, from $11,100 to $125,798.

Are we men or are we…oops, mice no longer work as a model for humans for at least three major killers: sepsis, burns and trauma.

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Harold Pollack on Sen. Menendez’s shady relationship with a Florida doctor.

But he leaves out the sex scandal. Warning to other public figures: don’t promise to pay a prostitute $500 and then give her only $100 (isn’t this basic common sense?).

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New York Times editorial page finally notices: President Obama can order people killed.

CBO: seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law.

U.S. drone kills 16-year-old born in Denver; parents say he wasn’t a terrorist.

More people are getting hospice care — but they are getting it for only a few days and often, only after highly aggressive care near the end of life, including multiple hospitalizations and stays in intensive care units.

Only 49.3 percent of economics professors oppose increasing the minimum wage — proving that a lot of economists don’t believe in economics.

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IRS: Cheapest ObamaCare plan will be $20,000 per family in 2016.

Feinstein gun control bill to exempt government officials.

Veterans study: more primary care leads to more hospital readmissions.

Couple that nurses baby deer back to health was committing a crime.

Photo credit: Jennifer Counceller/WSJ

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