- While you are sleeping, your brain is cleansing itself.
- Five signs of dementia other than memory loss. (NYT)
- How you are subsidizing the homes of the wealthy on Florida’s coast: The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), which currently has underwritten more than 5 million policies, now issues 95% of all flood policies, and is $20 billion in debt.
- The Cass Report: “We have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress.” Why is that controversial?
- Why is there a shortage of IV fluid?
Category: Health Economics & Costs
NYT: One Study 20+ Years Ago Condemned Millions of Women to Needless Suffering
Hormone therapy for post-menopausal women was once one of the most common treatments in America, according to the New York Times. That all changed in 2002 when a major study raised serious health concerns supposedly due to hormone replacement. Many doctors stopped prescribing hormones after the landmark study and many patients are afraid to ask.
Monday Links
- Doctor fees explained.
- The many ways Obamacare has failed.
- From the first launch globally, the median time a new drug became available was 2.7 years for high-income countries, 4.5 years for upper-middle-income countries, 6.9 years for lower-middle-income countries, and 8.0 years for low-income countries.
- Harris’s home health care plan could cost $400 billion a year.
- AI’s bedside manner is better than a doctor’s.
WSJ: Alcohol Abuse is on the Rise Among Women
My late mother told me about a slogan when she was young with women saying, “lips that touch alcohol will never touch mine.” Those days are long gone. Women are drinking more than ever before.