Category: Interesting Links

Offering Incentives for Blood Donations, and Other Links

Study: “We are unaware of a single study of real blood donations that shows that offering an incentive reduces the overall quantity or quality of blood donations.”

Virtually no one has remained on the IRS’ list of the top 400 earners in terms of adjusted gross income for all the years it has been kept.

Employers “pay” young employees to stay on their parents plan; married employees to stay on their spouse’s plan.

If you’re caught in the rain without an umbrella, is it better to run or walk in order to stay as dry as possible?

Jul 26, 2012 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Unbearable Heat, and Other Links

Why does it feel uncomfortable when the outside temperature is the same as your body temperature?

Missing an hour of sleep turns a sixth grader’s brain into that of a fourth grader.

Skip the OJ for breakfast.

Are you having a heart attack?

Methamphetamine releases about 10 times more dopamine than alcohol.

Jul 25, 2012 | 7 comments | by Devon Herrick

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

One in ten employers to drop health plans.

ObamaCare’s payment for performance could penalize safety net hospitals.

75 percent of the nation’s physicians may be employed by hospitals by 2014.

Hospitals: no progress on readmissions.

Jul 25, 2012 | 3 comments | by John Goodman

Aurora’s Gun Law, and Other Links

Aurora already had a strict gun law.

How states can protect employers and employees from ObamaCare: Do nothing.

Privatizing prison health care: 20 states have done it.

The health coach: they help you get enough exercise, eat a balanced diet and manage stress.

Jul 24, 2012 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Upcoming Presidential Election, and Other Links

Austerity works.

Retail clinics administered 1.8 million influenza vaccinations in 2009.

Firefighters don’t fight fires; they make medical calls.

916,643 people will decide the next presidential election.

Virtually no one has remained on the IRS’ list of the top 400 earners in terms of adjusted gross income for all the years it has been kept.

Jul 20, 2012 | 7 comments | by John Goodman

Rationing of Health Care, and Other Links

State spending on Medicaid now surpasses spending on K-12 education.

Sheldon Richman: the market doesn’t ration health care, or anything else. HT: David Henderson.

For $8,000 college women can learn the ropes about sorority rush.

Greg Mankiw to reporters: go look at Harry Reid’s wardrobe.

Jul 19, 2012 | 10 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

Obama: “If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

FDA Officials’ secret surveillance produced 80,000 pages of communications between scientists and others inside and outside the agency.

Weekend hospital visits: more deadly, more expensive, and result in longer stays.

Paramedics turn to expired drugs due to shortages.

Jul 18, 2012 | 8 comments | by John Goodman

Decrease in Visits to Personal Physicians, and Other Links

Only 42% of doctor visits are to a personal physician. HT: Jason Shafrin.

Under Obama’s new tax plan, the biggest tax cuts still go to the rich.

Hospitals advertising on Facebook and Google: “It saddens me to see an academic medical center go down this road” said Dr. H. Gilbert Welch.

The Chinese public likes free markets as much as Americans do.

Jul 17, 2012 | 3 comments | by John Goodman

Headlines I Wish I Hadn’t Seen

The total cost of new [ObamaCare] taxes on the middle class is expected to reach $500 billion between 2013 and 2022; and the tax burden has only worsened since the law was passed in 2010.

Some drugs that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved for distribution to the world’s poor are of inferior quality — shoddy products that hurt people who urgently need medicine.

Jul 16, 2012 | 4 comments | by John Goodman

Facebook as the New Digital Health App, and Other Links

100,000 U.S. prisoners are in solitary confinement.

Can Facebook help identify undiagnosed diseases?

How we make war: “Pilots have flown [drone video screen] missions over Afghanistan in the morning, stopped for lunch, fought the Iraq war in the afternoon and then driven home in time for dinner.“

Jul 13, 2012 | 4 comments | by John Goodman