This study asks and answers a simple question: “Does Health Insurance Make You Fat?” Jay Bhattacharya, Kate Bundorf, Noemi Pace, and Neeraj Sood, NBER [National Bureau of Economic Research] working paper no. 15163, July 2009. (Thanks to Grover Weston for bringing this to our attention.) The authors explain: “We find weak evidence that more generous […]
What’s in a surname, if one wants to see portents about the medical fates of persons who have those surnames? This study aims to answer that question, focusing on British surnames: “British Surname Origins, Population Structure and Health Outcomes—An Observational Study of Hospital Admissions,” Jakob Petersen, Jens Kandt, and Paul A. Longley, Scientific Reports, vol. […]
People are trying new ways to try to educate the public, in the vexed year 2020, about health care and safety. This video is, perhaps, a bold experiment: (Thanks to @Beccanalia for bringing this to our attention.)
It’s easy to say that coffee has a good or bad effect on people’s health, but it’s not easy to know, suggests a study about studies about whether coffee has a good or bad effect on people’s health. The study is: “Dietary research on coffee: Improving adjustment for confounding,” David R. Thomas, Ian D. Hodges, […]