Screen for Dementia, New Pill Alerts Your Doctor, and Why It’s Hard to Stick to an Exercise Routine
Are you getting dementia? You can screen yourself.
Poor eating habits and failure to exercise explained. People are present-oriented.
Category: Interesting Links
Apr 07, 2010 | 7 comments | by John Goodman
New York Interns, Robot Workers, and Doctor Shuns ObamaCare Supporters
New York to employers: Using summer interns who don’t get paid is against the law.
This worker doesn’t need health insurance, isn’t included under the new individual and employer mandates and doesn’t pay taxes either. (HT to Marginal Revolution)
Doctor: If you voted for ObamaCare, seek urological care elsewhere.
Apr 05, 2010 | 9 comments | by John Goodman
Sugar, Multitasking, Dark Chocolate
Just 2½ percent of us can do two things at once – talking on a cell phone while driving at peak performance.
Dark Chocolate Study: Eating two Hershey’s Kisses every day can prevent 85 heart attacks and strokes in every 10,000 people over a decade. (previous post here)
Apr 01, 2010 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
Egg Donor’s SAT Score Matters, Diabetes Capital is China, ObamaCare Doctor Fees
What is an egg donor’s SAT worth? About $2,350 per hundred points.
For every person in the world with HIV there are three people in China with diabetes. Hat tip to Marginal Revolution.
ObamaCare will increase Medicaid doctor fees to Medicare levels for only two years (2013 and 2014), and then drop them back about 50%. (Anybody believe this will ever happen?)
Mar 31, 2010 | 13 comments | by Devon Herrick
Therapeutic Hypothermia, Alzheimer’s and the Fountain of Youth
Therapeutic hypothermia: doctors cool you down about 7 degrees; then they warm you back up.
Can mind games help prevent Alzheimer’s? Maybe.
It’s not quite the Fountain of youth, but scientists have found a way to induce some of our cells to live forever.
Mar 31, 2010 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
One-Third of Physicians to Leave Practice, Walgreens in WA Stops Filling New Medicaid Prescriptions, and Is Dark Chocolate Good for You?
Walgreens drugstores in Washington state won’t fill any new Medicaid patient prescriptions.
There is health value in dark chocolate, says a Baylor University doctor.
Mar 25, 2010 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
Comparative Effectiveness Research, Change Your Memories, and the Supersized Meal at the Last Supper
Is it possible to permanently change your memories? Maybe.
How much was consumed at the Last Supper? The food in famous paintings of the meal has grown by biblical proportions over the last millennium.
Canadian man faces either bankruptcy or death. After he went to the Mayo Clinic for surgery, the Alberta Cancer Board refused to pay for doses of the anti-tumor drug Avastin. (Hat tip to Linda Gorman.)
Mar 24, 2010 | 4 comments | by John Goodman
Obama Gets Special Health Treatment, Stopping Smoking May Increase Medicare Costs, and Women Have Better Memories
Mar 22, 2010 | 6 comments | by John Goodman
The Cost of Daylight Savings, No Sitting Allowed, and One Woman Striving to Weigh 1,000 Pounds
The case against daylight savings time.
At some British hospitals: No sitting allowed for friends and relatives of patients. Flowers are not allowed either.
Woman holds the Guinness World Record as the world’s fattest mother. She is consuming 12,000 calories in a quest to become the world’s fattest woman.
Mar 19, 2010 | 9 comments | by John Goodman
Fairness is in Our Genes, Best Time for Calorie Consumption, and How to Reduce Behavioral Problems
Is a proclivity toward fairness in our genes? Apparently so.
Cooperative behavior is contagious. But so is cheating.
Will exercise cause you to shed pounds? One study says “no.”
Calories matter, but does the time of day you consume them matter? No.
Can talk therapy really improve your back pain? Apparently so.
Mar 16, 2010 | 5 comments | by Devon Herrick
