Unbiased Analysis of Today's Healthcare Issues
Hatch Waxman turns 40. FDA: Integrating RCT into routine clinical practice. Cost of care under Medicare vs. Medicaid. The Less-Efficient Market Hypothesis. Semaglutide and COVID-19. Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science turns 20.
AI use in cancer pathology workflow. Minnesota Starvation Experiment. Does it pay to complain about medical bills? Government to implement Aged Care Taskforce recommendations. KFF compares Presidential candidates’ health policy positions.
Bird flu spreading in the US. Impact of banning alcohol sales. Optional legislation? Don’t ignore economists. Oyster mushroom robot?
How do companies decide which drugs to develop? “attending a more selective college causally reduces obesity” 28% of patients with HIV were covered by Medicare The AI Scientist + End-to-end causal effect estimation Development approval timelines and new housing supply in LA
Fail fast in statistical computing. NBA’s $600m man. Medicaid coverage and abortion rates. On open AI (not written Open AI) Parallels:child care vs. health care in Canada.
Economics of infertility. COVID-19 impact on physician revenue. Impact of rent control. GLP-1’s often discontinued within 2 years. Life before EHRs.
Gene editing without CRISPR? RCTs in economics. Claude and GTP4o on bias-adjusted nearest neighbor matching. Opioid prescriptions falling in workers comp. Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals have closed. Digital Health startups raise $1.1b in Q1 2024.
Why is NIH funding small trials? (there’s a good reason!) First bird flu death in humans. Employee responses to CEO activism. How rich were the rich? ‘Hot hand’ and fantasy baseball.
South Park on the American health care system Social science genomics. Blood donation or high interest loan? Cost doesn’t equal quality (1, 2, 3) Will the market accept cell therapies?
Rise in reported US maternal mortality rates largely due to change in measurement ChatGPT 4o and Khan Academy. FDA clinical trial snapshots: 2023. Do some Medicaid beneficiaries even know they are insured? Do PBMs reduce prices?