- There are no health benefits from taking multivitamins daily. The study covered 390,124 generally healthy adults who were followed for more than 20 years.
- Doctors are using Apple Watch to monitor abnormal heart rhythm – without FDA approval. (WSJ)
- Study: For low back pain, try walking.
- What do you do when your employee wants to take a leave of absence to get pregnant and have a baby? Offer to pay the cost of freezing her eggs instead. (NYT)
- Jason Furman: The employment level for native-born workers is … below its pre-pandemic level, while foreign-born workers have accounted for all employment gains … since 2019. WOW.
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Monday Links
- What if Purdue Pharma and OxyContin are not really guilty as charged?
- What the Chevron decision means.
- Your doctor bills Medicare for your surgery. But was he really the surgeon? (WaPo)
- The Heritage plan for a Second Trump term. Outlaw pornography? Say it ain’t so.
- What happens when doctors can’t get the cancer drugs their patients need because of shortages.
Wednesday Links
- Study: Bans on flavored tobacco products don’t work.
- Are women taking over our health care system?
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There are 4.2 million nurses, over 1 million doctors, and over 1/2 million PAs and NPs in the US…. Women hold … 90% of all nursing positions, 66% of PAs, and 55% of all current Medical School slots.
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- NBER study: As hospital prices went up 1%, the percentage of people who ended up out of a job rose by 0.4% and payments for tax-funded unemployment insurance increased 2.5%.
- The total expense [of developing a new drug] is estimated at $1 billion on average. It takes 10 to 15 years. And nearly 90 percent of the candidate drugs that enter human clinical trials fail.
- Colorado wants to import drugs from Canada. Pharma is opposed.
NYT: Your Vet is Going High-Tech, and Expensive
Our dog Clementine is part of the family. (That’s her helping read her lab report. She’s a Golden Doodle rescue that spent her first year in Lake Tahoe before moving to Texas. She’s not a cheap date. She has three different veterinarians. She has a veterinary behaviorist for her mental health (she’s an odd dog). She also has a regular veterinarian for routine health needs, and we use a cheaper veterinary clinic housed in a Walmart for lab work and vaccinations. If we sound like overindulgent pet owners, we’re not alone according to the New York Times.