Here in the U.S. we spend about the same percentage of the gross domestic product on Medicare alone as other advanced countries spend on all healthcare put together, from all sources — government, private insurance, and out-of-pocket spending by patients. … Continue reading
Here’s yet another piece from John Oliver, this one from February but with content that’s very much still relevant. As usual, Oliver somehow manages to be entertaining while offering up a lot of valuable information on a very serious subject. … Continue reading
The latest from pediatrician and researcher Aaron Carroll: Link: https://youtu.be/OISl9NvrSuo In brief, numerous controlled trials have been done to test whether taking vitamin D supplements makes people healthier, and that research suggests it doesn’t, not for osteoporosis or osteoarthritis or … Continue reading
Here’s yet another short video from pediatrician Aaron Carroll, this one venting annoyance at misleading or overhyped reports of medical research in the news media. Link: https://youtu.be/e0W5PQRYSac Incidentally, in this video Dr Carroll mentions belonging to a group of doctors … Continue reading
(Updated 2016 April 1 to add some additional point and try to improve the explanation below the video.) Here’s a video with a surprise ending — a big surprise, in fact. The question addressed is this: What if you’re take … Continue reading
Pediatrician Aaron Carroll summarizes findings of a study on the behavior and other attributes of kids today versus 1972. The news is surprisingly good — not perfect, but better than many people might expect: Less use of tobacco and alcohol, … Continue reading
These two recent commentaries by pediatrician and researcher Aaron Carroll MD are quite interesting. The gist is that in a number of studies it appears that basic emergency life support — CPR and automatic defibrillators, for example — does such … Continue reading
During last night’s Democratic presidential candidates’ debate, moderator Martha Raddatz of ABC News prefaced a question with this: “Secretary Clinton, the Department of Health and Human Services says more than 17 million Americans who are not insured now have health … Continue reading
Pediatrician Dr Aaron Carroll has an important message below on how parents and even doctors are endangering young people (and their adults selves) by not immunizing them for HPV. Contrary to crank Internet rumors and a couple of scientifically illiterate … Continue reading
A little over two years ago I posted something (link) about research showing that white American women without a high school diploma were experiencing falling life expectancy, though comparable members of other races were not. Note that this should not … Continue reading