The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Prices For Hip Replacement In US Vary Hugely
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/256222.php
Which is worse? That the estimated cost (surely underestimated!) varied by over an order of magnitude or that half couldn’t even provide an estimate? If this weren’t such a tragic commentary …
Obamacare: A Deception
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2013/02/03/obamacare-a-primer/
For those of you liberals who think that Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced bread (you are totally wrong) and for those conservatives that think Obamacare is a socialist gift to the poor (ditto), here …
Alcohol with Diet Soft Drinks Accelerate Intoxication
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/3747/20130206/alcohol-diet-soft-drinks-accelerate-intoxication.htm
When I first read the title I was skeptical, but the reasoning is very plausible to me. The sugar in regular soda triggers the body to begin the digestion process which slows …
Why Americans are dying earlier than their international peers
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/09/health/international-health-report/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
I am almost interested in digging up the report to read the details. It is well known (among people who bother with facts) that the US pays the most for …
Being overweight linked to lower risk of mortality
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/health/overweight-mortality/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
I thought I had talked about the relationship between being, shall we say, ‘Rubenesque‘, before, but I am not finding such a post. This is not the first time …
Is your hospital hurting you?
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/02/opinion/makary-hospital-doctors/index.html?hpt=hp_bn7
The author is quite amusing to me. He somehow thinks that the massive consolidation of hospitals has anything but financial gain for the already wealthy behind it. Oh, I am sure that there are …
Is sugar the next tobacco?
It will be if author Robert Lustig, the man behind the YouTube sensation “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” has his way
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/01/is_sugar_the_next_tobacco/
I talk a time or twain about how the evidence is building up that …
Grapefruit Is a Culprit in More Drug Reactions
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/grapefruit-is-a-culprit-in-more-drug-reactions/
I have never been a huge fan of grapefruit (or drugs, though I tend to pound the ibuprofen when I get a migraine), but I know that lots of people like …
Obamacare architect leaves White House for pharmaceutical industry job
Few people embody the corporatist revolving door greasing Washington as purely as Elizabeth Fowler
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1
The revolving door spins ’round and ’round. I can’t put it any better:
…This is precisely
Court: Off-Label Drug Marketing Is ‘Free Speech’
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/FDAGeneral/36256
It is now official (unless the Supreme Court overturns it, which isn’t likely to happen), Big Pharma can now peddle any drug that made it through the FDA approval process for anything …