- Study finds socioeconomic gaps in deaths by alcohol and wonders how we can achieve equality. That’s easy: have successful people drink more.
- Spain bans air-conditioning below 80 degrees during record-setting summer heat.
- Pfizer CEO tests positive for Covid.
- Democrats could have used the IRA bill to add on all kinds of abortion protections; yet not a single amendment was offered.
- Five ways the government has made things worse, not better, for diabetics.
- Why you can’t trust the Covid death statistics.
- More on the debate over SSRIs.
Category: Direct Primary Care
During a Nursing Shortage Nurses Abandon Hospitals
Physicians have long dabbled in cosmetic medicine to boost their incomes. It is interesting to note that their cosmetic practices are competitive with transparent pricing, while their therapeutic areas of practice is bureaucratic with opaque prices. As a result of competition, cosmetic surgery prices have risen about equal to consumer inflation, which is one-third the rate of medical inflation.
Mosquitoes Bite Some People More than Others
My wife and I like to sit out on our patio in the evening with our dog Clementine. This is a ritual we’ve done for years. We’ve noticed something curious about sitting outdoors. My wife gets bitten by mosquitoes far more than I do. We spent a month at an Airbnb in a Costa Rican jungle a few miles from the Pacific coast back in 2018. My wife had to fight off mosquitoes and no-see-ums while I hardly noticed them.
The Biggest Controversy in Pharma World: SSRIs
Scientists at University College London have conducted an umbrella review, evaluating pre-existing research, and concluded that there is little support for the idea that depression is related to abnormally low levels of serotonin.
Sahanika Ratnayake at Slate writes:
It’s true that the authors of the study are controversial figures, vocal to sometimes vituperative critics of the mental health status quo, leaving heated debates in their wake with each new publication. But the authors’ conclusion has been an open secret within mental health circles for at least a decade. The very public dispelling of this “serotonin model” has also removed a key plank in the widely believed but oversimplified myth of mental illness being caused by a “chemical imbalance.”