Tag: Links

Fraud costs Medicare $60 billion. Mexico to legalize drugs? Doctors with foreign degrees. What is Medication Therapy Management? Health insurance profits surge. My favorite basketball player. Plugging my brother.

Cost of Medical Errors: $19.8 billion. Betting on your grades. One weight loss method. Back pain: whether to use hot or cold packs. Healthcare.gov (and parody)

Cutting Back on Doctor’s Visits. Obama = Bush. Libertarian Bioethics?

How the NFL Fights Staph Infections. Blogging about Sports and Economics. Is Medicaid coverage bad for your health. One healthy recovery. Physician ratings are coming.

Economics is really, really, really, really, really, really, really hard. Births via c-section: ~1/3. FQBHCs. Gaming the system in Massachusetts. Why Big Pharma should buy your doctor lunch sometimes. Mass. health reform increases ER utilization? “MedPAC on steroids” weakening

Food subsidies harm nutrition? Employment leads to greater alcohol use. Should time on the waiting list matter for kidney allocation? For Mexicans, health declines with time in the US. Limiting antibiotics in meat. STD rates for swingers vs. prostitutes.

With a magical goal scored in penalty time time, the U.S. advances outside of the group stage of the World Cup.  In honor of this emotional victory, today’s links are themed red, white and blue. Cash to take your medicine. Will health reform control costs? Tax rates by quintile graphic. The effect of mandates for…

The Zambian Malaria Initiative. Welfare reform decreases illicit drug use. Improved HIV testing. 3D Surgery. When does 10=12 and 12=10?

Altering breast cancer treatment. America’s Most Powerful Woman (hint: her first name’s not Hillary or Michelle) 50 years of birth control. Do EHRs kill? A story of marijuana, bear attacks, and workers’ comp.

Mentally ill patients receiving appropriate care: <¼. Treating Alzheimer’s. A minimum alcohol price: Will it improve health or increase bootlegging. Evidence-based guidelines using Genomic Medicine. Who’s getting stimulus money for Health IT? Tragedy, Honor and Redemption.