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Should purchasing tobacco be off limits to 18-20 year olds? 27 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
That’s the subject of a thoughtful piece in the Annals of Internal Medicine. “Increasing the “Smoking Age”: The Right Thing to Do“. Looks like it’s behind a paywall, unfortunately. Tobacco use remain...
AcademyHealth: A systematic review of value-based insurance design studies 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
The July issue of Health Affairs included a systematic review of observational studies of value-based insurance design for prescription drugs. I summarized it in a post on the AcademyHealth blog, whic...
About Singapore… – ctd. (Part 2) 26 Aug 2013 | 06:36 pm
So apparently my quick post on Singapore last week has gotten some attention. Because of some emails and some other posts I’ve seen, I feel compelled to elaborate on that post. My response will take t...
About Singapore… – ctd. (Part 1) 26 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
So apparently my quick post on Singapore last week has gotten some attention. Because of some emails and some other posts I’ve seen, I feel compelled to elaborate on that post. My response will take t...
Patients don’t always mind being in the dark… 26 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Counter-intuitive study in the BMJ. “Patients’ attitudes about the use of placebo treatments: telephone survey“: Objective To examine the attitudes of US patients about the use of placebo treatments ...
PSA test decision aids 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Commenting on a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, Daniel Reuland and Michael Pignone wrote, Taylor and colleagues present findings of, to our knowledge, the largest clinical trial of a P...
TIE at the movies: The Spectacular Now 24 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Yeah, I’m stealing a page from my RBC buddy Keith Humphreys, amateur movie review par excellence. Emailing with a high school friend, I suddenly recalled a cringe-worthy incident from more than thirt...
Obamacare card burning 24 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The excellent artwork by Rand Renfrow accompanying the Bloomberg column by me and Adrianna: @afrakt
How we judge musical performances 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Despite what you think, it’s not based on sound. This set of seven experiments [] suggests that novices’ judgment mirrors that of professionals; both novices and experts make judgments about music pe...
How is Obamacare going to affect me? 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
From time to time, I solicit questions on Twitter. The following, edited for clarity and brevity, came by email. Even though the question relates to Veterans Affairs benefits, the answer is more gener...
