- Cotopaxi Drugs joins 11 Walgreens stores that have closed in the last three years due to rising crime in San Francisco. HT: CTUP
- Study: After a nuclear accident, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. That led to an increase in energy prices and that led to more deaths.
- Every time a drug switches from prescription to OTC, the total number of doctor visits drops.
- Does earlier detection of lung cancer lead to better survival: Here’s why we don’t know.
- David Friedman on Black Reparations and other issues. Recommended.
- Tyler Cowen: “Single parent families can be disastrous. In Colombia the current rate of that is 84 (!) percent. In Argentina, Mexico, and Chile it is more than half. For India I see estimates ranging from 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent for single parent families.”
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links
- Is watching Fox News bad for your health? (Covid vaccination rates are lower)
- Scott Sumner: the 21st century is suffering from a spate of nationalism.
- Opponents of telemedicine strike back: “Over the past year, nearly 40 states and Washington, D.C., have ended emergency declarations that made it easier for doctors to use video visits to see patients in another state.”
- Study: Too little sleep makes people stingy.
Monday Links
- Medicare Advantage enrollees are more likely to get preventive care. Other comparisons with traditional Medicare were mixed.
- GOP’s approach to drug pricing.
- How reliable are blood tests for detecting cancer? (WSJ)
- The case for fasting.
- Even the Biden administration admits, “No one is serving time in federal prison solely for the crime of marijuana possession.” (WSJ)
Monday Links
- CBO: competition and price transparency are the best ways to lower private sector health care costs.
- Nurse fired for refusing to admit she’s a racist. (WSJ)
- Against hormone therapy for children.
- When the dangers of one type of drug addiction become widely known, teenagers switch to another addictive drug. (NYT)
- Why did McKinsey get into the addiction business? (NYT)