- Sen. Chuck Schumer: Logan Paul’s energy drink has the caffeine equivalent of six cans of Coke.
- Does pollution really reduce birth weight?
- The difference in life-expectancies between Black and White Americans has decreased from 7.0 years to 3.6 years between 1980 and 2018. Between 35% and 73% of this convergence is attributable to biopharmaceutical innovation.
Category: Tuesday Links
Tuesday Links
- Gorman and Goodman: Texas was right not to expand Medicaid.
- Schaeffer Center: Medicare Advantage enrolls lower-spending people, leading to large overpayments.
- Why DC is so dangerous: “the overwhelming preponderance of lethal violence is carried out with illegal weapons” and “most gun arrests don’t lead to charges.”
- Prenatal tests: Very accurate for common genetic disorders like Down syndrome. But for rare diseases, the positive results were wrong 80 percent to 93 percent of the time
- Janitor cut the power to a lab freezer, destroying decades’ worth of research materials valued at nearly $1 million.
Tuesday Links
- Every generation thinks people were nicer in the past. But it’s not true.
- Evidence that colonoscopies aren’t worth it.
- Claim: Frenemies can be hazardous to your health. (NYT)
- Claim: Doctors are suffering from “moral injury.” (NYT)
- Biden claim: “real income for the bottom half of earners is up by 3.4% since I took office.” Reality: real income for the bottom 25% has fallen 2.3%, while the second income quartile has fallen 3.9%.
Tuesday Links
- Can drinking water lower your stress level?
- 85% of patients say compassion is more important than price when choosing a doctor.
- 71% of patients say they have gone to doctors who were not compassionate.
- Chatbots are helping doctors find the words to break bad news or express concerns about a patient’s suffering. (NYT)
- Zuckerberg: Establishment asked to censor COVID-19 posts that ended up being true.
- Historians rate Woodrow Wilson as a near-great president and Warren Harding as among the worst. Graboyes: the reverse is true.