- Love explained: oxytocin is the “love hormone.”
- Fewer Americans are getting Married. “Family formation is a new fault line in the American class structure.”
- The odds of your outliving your life expectancy are quite good. (WSJ)
- Health effects of an icy plunge: increased risk of hypothermia, arrhythmias, and heart attacks; but possible help with mental clarity, depression, pain management, and weight loss. (NYT)
- Do safer football helmets and better padding induce players to engage in more reckless behavior on the field?
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Weight gain is not a new thing: Americans have been gaining weight for as far back as we have data.
- When Cuba sends doctors to other countries, it’s not charity; it’s business.
- The Heath Care Blog discovers the joys of patient power. Of course, 30 years is a long time after we first explained it all; but better late than never.
- Biologics account for 2% of US prescriptions for drugs, but 40% of total spending on prescription drugs. Here’s what drug companies do to discourage generic (biosimilar) competitors.
- Do health insurers provide fair access to drugs? Evidence that they don’t.
Monday Links
- UK study: When hospitals merge, patients suffer.
- Only about one-third of Americans think the US health care system has minor or no problems–and that percentage hasn’t varied much in the last 20 years. And that includes the passage and enactment of Obamacare.
- UK ambulances took an average of 1 hour & 32 minutes to respond to heart attacks & strokes last month. 5 X higher than target, double the average in November.
- Study: Even a little alcohol can be harmful to your health.
- A lot of health provisions were stuck in the omnibus spending bill. (NYT)
Monday Links
- Eight of the 25 major work stoppages involving 1,000 workers in 2022 were initiated by health care workers.
- Of the $586 billion spent on drugs in 2021, more than 30% ($179 billion) was captured by intermediaries such as PBMs.
- Chris Pope: America actually has five health care systems.
- An old essay that’s worth rereading: “How doctors Die.” HT: Richard Hanania.
- What its liked to be a nurse in the British NHS.
- Is there a religious (pre-Christian) argument for Canadian Euthanasia? (Ross Douthat in the NYT)