Pediatrician Aaron Carroll explains how to compute various measures of benefit for various health interventions, including drugs, diagnostic techniques, and diet. One of the most useful and easy-to-understand measures is the “Number Needed to Treat” (NNT), meaning the number of … Continue reading
In the video clip below pediatrician Dr. Aaron Carroll of the Indiana University School of Medicine describes how the overall healthcare system works in France, and it’s quite interesting, especially for those of us in the U.S. Basically, everybody in … Continue reading
The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi reports from a place where medical volunteers, some local and some foreign, come to deliver healthcare to the poor: The Daily Show Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook OK, Mandvi … Continue reading
Playing video games may improve your eyesight and some aspects of thinking, even enlarging parts of the brain: Link: http://youtu.be/OOsqkQytHOs This reminds me of something I read many years ago. Men typically do better than women in tests of spacial … Continue reading
Good advice: by … Continue reading
Today’s issue of USA Today has a short editorial worth reading, not least for its willingness to say something flat out that too many try to avoid saying (see the Jon Stewart clip a few posts back), namely, that for … Continue reading
This is strange news: According to an article by Monica Potts in The American Prospect magazine (an excellent publication, by the way), over the past 18 years, the life expectancy of white American women who are not high school graduates … Continue reading
Yesterday’s intelligent rant from John Green reminded me of a worry I’ve heard voiced a number of times recently, namely, that the Affordable Care Act will cost jobs by requiring most larger businesses — those with 50+ employees — to … Continue reading
John Green (the guy in those history videos I link to most Sundays) explains why healthcare reform encourages people to start new businesses and create more jobs: Link: http://youtu.be/R7LF5Vj2n64 (I included his previous video essay on the high cost of … Continue reading
A survey conducted earlier this year by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that the public remains poorly informed about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and about healthcare in general. For example, in the past few years healthcare costs have been … Continue reading