A new study found that mandated paid sick leave lowers rates of death. According to the research, laws that require employers to provide paid sick leave may help lower mortality from suicide and homicide. In addition, state laws that preempt local governments from mandating paid sick leave and minimum wage requirements likely contributed to the 6 percent…
Friday Links
- Last year CMS received 41,136 complaints about the marketing of Medicare Advantage plans. (WSJ, gated)
- Do breaks from surgery improve the performance of orthopedic surgeons? Yes. HT: Tyler
- Can a dead person fly? Not before the TSA pats her down.
- CDC’s latest message: You don’t have to do anything about COVID, except please go get your booster urgently.
- A summary of Fauci flip flops. (NYT, gated)
Nearly Half of Worldwide Cancer Deaths Preventable (Due to Smoking, Drinking and Obesity)
About half of cancer deaths worldwide are preventable, according to an analysis published in The Lancet and summarized in Nature.
Using estimates of cancer cases and deaths from more than 200 countries, researchers found that avoidable risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.5 million cancer deaths in 2019 (see ‘Global cancer deaths’). That represents more than 44% of global cancer deaths that year. Smoking, alcohol use and a high body-mass index (BMI) — which can be indicative of obesity — were the biggest contributors to cancer.
Thursday Links
- Goldman Sachs throws Fauci and CDC protocols under the bus.
- American life expectancy has dropped three years!
- California bill would penalize doctors who spread Covid falsehoods, like “Ivermectin works” — even if it really does work. (NYT, gated)
- Omicron appears to produce contradictory results (pos/neg) when various test are used.
- Health benefits of tea.