Category: Thursday Links

JAMA study: Air pollution associated with dementia. The study is behind a paywall, but if this is a typical medical study, no one asked if the parents or grandparents had dementia.

State CON regulations are hurting patients.

Where the highest-paid doctors live: South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, and Wyoming.

Tyler Cowen has an explanation for this: Rural America has about 20 percent of the U.S. population but about 10 percent of its doctors.

Bird flu in Finland has pandemic potential.

Different doses of prescription drugs for men and women? Believe it or not, some people want to debate that.

Medicare negotiation is likely to lower the future price of only 4 of the 10 most likely targeted drugs.