- Prospects look good for musical therapy.
- Does studying economics make you selfish?
- Culture explains some differences in worker productively.
- State governments now spend over $40 billion a year on economic development incentives (giving money to businesses to relocate); yet studies find the spending does not lead to statistically significant improvements in tax revenue, employment, economic growth, or personal income.
- Harvard’s Claudine Gay resigns!
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- John Cochrane: The right reasons to fire Harvard president, Claudine Gay.
- Expanding primary care with foreign medical school graduates.
- Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is mostly diagnosed between the ages of 45 and 65 (Bruce Willis, for example.) It can be caused by a single genetic mutation. (NYT)
- An estimated 28 percent of prescribed antibiotics are unnecessary.
Do Drug Company Donations Buy Influence? Probably
In the Summer of 2021 I wrote about a controversial new drug for Alzheimer’s Disease. The drug, Aduhelm, did not have a lot of evidence showing it worked. It did have plenty of data showing it came with an extensive list of nasty side effects, including brain swelling and brain bleeds. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved it despite the agency’s advisory panel of experts recommending against it. The decision was controversial, and several members of the advisory panel resigned in protest.
If Your New Year’s Resolution is to Improved Your Mental Health then Make No Resolution
Today is the start of another new year: 2024. There are numerous people who like to start the new year with New Year’s Resolutions that are supposed to make their lives better in some way. Indeed, according to a Forbes poll 62% of people feel pressured to make a New Year’s Resolution. Purportedly, women (64%) feel more pressure than men (60%). Resolutions such as losing weight or exercising more are the most common, representing one-third and one-half of resolutions, respectively. A lot of people also resolve to improve their finances over the year.