- Sweden: Today, nearly half of primary healthcare clinics are privately owned, many by private-equity firms. One in three public high schools is privately run, up from 20% in 2011.
- As of last year, state-owned or “mixed-ownership” enterprises account for about 60 percent of China’s largest companies.
- More cancer patients are taking ivermectin.
- Benefits of eating eggs.
- Young adults and older workers are dropping out of the labor market. What are they doing instead?
Category: Doctors & Hospitals
Where Do Consumers Really Get Health Information?
The Pew Charitable Trust says I’ve been wrong all these years. I’ve written for 25 years that Americans increasingly get their health information from the Internet. Furthermore, a few minutes spent surfing the Web for health information can educate patients far more than their physicians would ever have time to explain. In a new Pew survey of where people get their health information, the Internet trails health care providers.
Thursday Links – 14 May 2026
- Should health AI programs be required to obtain a license to practice medicine?
- Eliminating the gas tax may not lower the price of gasoline.
- Jeffrey Singer: The “right to try” exists mainly on paper.
- Early evidence on smartphone bans: “no clear evidence that the school ban policy reduced screen time or improved psychological wellbeing.”
- Are second opinions needed in dentistry? (NYT)
Wednesday Links – 13 May 2026
- Fraud in government spending is even worse than what has been reported.
- Jobs under Trump: private sector jobs up; public sector jobs down.
- What state gasoline taxes look like.
- Pharmaceutical and health products industries spent $457.3 million on lobbying last year.
- The Community Development Block Grant program is “one of the nation’s most wasteful and ineffective domestic-spending programs”