Sens. Thune and Carper introduce a bill to create Health Savings Accounts for the chronically ill.
The Green Agenda relies on slave labor and child labor in China and Africa.
Monday Links
- Ex-CDC Director “No Doubt” American Tax Dollars Funded Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab.
- Why banks fail: The best commentary on SVB: Scott Sumners, John Cochrane and Larry Kotlikoff.
- During the Covid pandemic, people cancelled doctors appointments. As a result, more people died.
- California’s cancellation of Walgreens isn’t as simple as it sounds.
- Jeffrey Singer on the Iron Law of Prohibition: “The harder the law enforcement, the harder the drug.”
- Why primary care physicians are not practicing at the top of their license.
Daylight Savings Time is Bad for Your Health
Sunday morning at 2:00am on March 12th Daylight savings time (DST) officially began for 2023. Today you are no doubt feeling the loss of an hour of sleep, but what is worse is our internal clock (also known as our circadian rhythm) does not necessarily adjust quickly. Thus, we go to bed an hour before our body feels like it’s time and can’t go to sleep for an hour. Yet our alarm clocks still rings at 6:00am, which to our bodies feels like 5:00am.
NY Times: AI Can Read Mammograms as Good or Better than Radiologists
There is a new artificial intelligence (AI) interface that’s been in the news lately called ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a language-based AI chatbot that can do many things humans can do. Some tasks it can do better than humans can do. A week or so ago I asked Would You See an AI Doctor?, Saying:
Radiologists sometimes use computer-aided detection (CAD) to interpret mammograms as a backup to human interpretation. Using both a radiologist and CAD together increases accuracy.
A few days later The New York Times reported on an ongoing test in Hungary, where AI is being used to assist in reading mammograms.
Inside a dark room at Bács-Kiskun County Hospital outside Budapest, Dr. Éva Ambrózay, a radiologist with more than two decades of experience, peered at a computer monitor showing a patient’s mammogram.