- Health Execs behaving badly.
- The increase in mortality among middle-aged, non-Hispanic whites is almost entirely driven by the bottom 10% of the education distribution.
- University of Rochester study: the main arguments against telemedicine are all wrong.
- Why can’t the media tell the truth about climate change?
- Study: The overall use of the twenty-three “low-value” medical services across all fifty-one states amounted to $3.7 billion over 10 years. At less than 1/10 of 1% of overall spending, not clear why we should be worried.
- Federal advisory group recommends that all Americans 19 to 64 be screened for “anxiety.”
- No diversity here: Women who get “long Covid” outnumber men by as much as four to one.
Totally agree with the comment about the “low-value” medical services study. Academic researchers are overly concerned with proving statistical significance because it gets studies published and not concerned enough with the magnitude of effects. In this case, the article’s conclusions also fit conventional narratives about wasteful healthcare spending, so publication was a slam dunk.