A meta study involving more than 63,000 adults found that, across an average of nine years, those who had higher levels of dairy fats in their blood were 29 percent less likely than those with lower levels to develop Type 2 diabetes.
Wednesday Links
- Lilly’s weight loss drug: if you stop taking it you will regain half the weight you have lost.
- Trump’s environmental record was surprisingly good.
- A typical couple reaching age 65 and retiring in 2020 has paid $680,000 in lifetime taxes. They can expect lifetime benefits of about $1.24 million. Most retiree couples are “Social Security millionaires,” regardless of other income and assets.
- One in four animals raised for food are never eaten.
- There are over 73,000 contract pharmacies that qualify for 340B discounts. Is anybody paying list price for these drugs?
More Physicians Want to Work in Medical Business, Not Medical Practice
A recent survey found that more than half of both medical students and nurses in training prefer not to work in patient care. In the United States 63% of medical students and 60% of nursing students report hoping to work in non-clinical areas of medicine, such as public health management, research or business consultancy.
Tuesday Links
- 65 bullet points on leftwing antisemitism. There is a reason why socialism and antisemitism were closely aligned in the 20th century: both are variations of collectivism.
- Thinking about dying.
- What does hospital price transparency have to do with community health centers? The former is an excuse for funding the latter.
- Illness can be financially devastating – in the US, but also in Canada and Britain. The reason: It’s not because of medical bills. It’s because of a lack of income from work.