How health insurance may have made health care more expensive
Our overpriced ACA policy for 2023 has a deductible of $17,600. I kid you not. The average deductible for an individual in 2022 is around $1,760, which is double what…
Public health: CDC says unintended consequence of lockdowns led to increase in Strep A, flu and RSV
CDC now thinks lockdowns and ineffective NPIs are the cause of today’s rise in Step A, flu and RSV cases (which started early this season but appear to have peaked…
Business: “thaw and eat” foods
Does anyone still cook real food, from raw ingredients?
Arrogance is not a good public relations strategy
I suspect all of us can describe situations when experts were wrong, really wrong – and it was up to us to inform them and correct them to get things…
Demographics, Labor, Health: UK NHS should consider using robots to address labor shortage
Health Secretary says the risk of introducing technology needs to be judged against the impact staff shortages have on the service Source: NHS should consider robots to plug staffing gaps,…
Health: Cycling head injuries are a low probability but high-risk event
Head injuries are a low probability but very high-risk event when bicycling or motorcycling or even skateboarding. Much is made of the story about the Attorney who fought Florida helmet…
Health: The incidence of TBI/Traumatic Brain Injury
5.5 million Americans are disabled due to a brain injury. Nearly 3 million people visited an ED for TBI-related injuries in 2013. There were approximately 223,135 TBI-related hospitalizations in 2019*…
Health: Our brain “re-wires” after about age 40
“Older adults tend to show less flexible thinking, such as forming new concepts and abstract thinking, lower response inhibition, as well as lower verbal and numeric reasoning,” the reviewers noted.…
Public health: Percent of children vaccinated for diseases
Source: FastStats – Immunization Some of these students will “catch up” by the age of 5, when they enter school – because their school or state may require full vaccinations.…
Demographics: Decline in births leads to closing obstetric hospital units
The decline in births is causing some smaller hospitals to consider closing their obstetrics units. Research suggests they begin to have too few births to maintain the services and care…
Public health: One third of gym users have not returned after Covid shutdowns
Nearly one-third of gym-goers say they have not returned to their workout facility. For those that haven’t returned, 27 percent said they don’t have plans to go back, according to…
Public health: Ten pages of Covid rules for a Nov 2022 event
Ten single spaced pages of Covid restrictions to attend a “con”-like event in mid-November 2022! Kumoricon » COVID-19 Expectations for Kumoricon 2022 Mandatory vaccination or lab/pharmacy issued negative PCR/Rapid test…
Transportation: Should more people be riding bikes?
Read an item this morning promoting more people to ride bikes to work and to stores. Which reminded me of a key issue that goes ignored… Look at most urban…
Health: New hard hat design reduces rotational brain injuries
This is good: The latest generation of hard hats are designed to cushion the brain during an impact by absorbing forces that cause the head to spin. Source: Next gen…
Media notices disease model projections mostly worthless
Predictions about the pandemic rarely age well. In the United States, the pandemic appeared to be winding down in May 2021 amid a vigorous vaccination campaign, only to get wound…