Category: Interesting Links

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Obesity affects your sense of smell, your sleep, your sex life and even your resistance to cancer.

Doctors failed to diagnose 54% of patients over age 60 with high blood pressure and 67% of those ages 18-24.

6,125 proposed regulations and notifications posted in last 90 days — average 68 per day.

Nov 13, 2012 | 13 comments | by John Goodman

Infant Mortality High Rates, and Other Links

Is U.S. infant mortality so high because mothers get too much medical care?

What the ObamaCare individual mandate tax compliance form will probably look like.

The bottled-up rules to set up President Barack Obama’s health care reform law are going to start flowing quickly right after Election Day.

Nov 09, 2012 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol, and Other Links

Intelligent people drink more booze.

Do government responses to hurricanes do more harm than good?

Physicians in private practice will fall to 36 percent by 2013, from 57 percent in 2000. and many of those that remain will opt for concierge medicine.

U.S. birth rate at an all-time low; more than 40 percent of all babies are born to unmarried women.

Nov 07, 2012 | 14 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

“Scope-of-practice” laws in thirty-two states require nurse practitioners to practice care under supervision of a physician and thus restrict them from practicing on their own.

Dodd-Frank subsidizes large, influential Wall Street financial institutions, while imposing disproportionately heavy burdens on Main Street banks and the communities they serve.

Zeke Emmanuel: The case against doctor-assisted suicide.

Nov 02, 2012 | 9 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

By the time they turn 18, one in four black children will have experienced the imprisonment of a parent.

By most accounts, hundreds of thousands of these untested [rape] kits are stacked up around the country.

NYT rejects economics: “Patients don’t act according to market models when the “skin in the game” is, well, their own skin.”

Nov 02, 2012 | 10 comments | by John Goodman

Not Enough Doctors, and Other Links

Doctor shortages in Las Vegas and Detroit?

Can you be scared to death?

More than 80 percent of all Dutch family doctors, according to a recent large study, report that they have performed euthanasia at least once.

Over $60,000 in welfare spent per household in poverty.

Nov 01, 2012 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Ineffective Diet and Weight Loss, and Other Links

Diet and weight loss did not prevent heart attacks and strokes in overweight and obese people with Type 2 diabetes.

Win the raffle, get in vitro.

Can eating fruits and vegetables make you happy?

Another pilot program failure: “Shared savings” doesn’t work.

Oct 24, 2012 | 12 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

U.S. launches a cyber-attack on Iran. Surprise: They’re fighting back.

Only two of Dallas County’s 46 hospitals offer rape victims the state-of-the-art forensic exams that could be their best shot at preserving the evidence needed to put their attackers behind bars.

Federal spending on more than 80 anti-poverty programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps, has increased by 33% since 2008 to $746 billion in 2011.

Oct 23, 2012 | 11 comments | by John Goodman

Wilensky on ObamaCare, and Other Links

Gail Wilensky: the case against ObamaCare.

John McDonough: the case against Romney.

Specialization works in cancer care.

Daschle: Mitt Romney can repeal ‘bulk’ of ObamaCare with a Senate majority.

Oct 22, 2012 | 9 comments | by John Goodman