The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued a warning to consumers “not to use body building products marketed as containing steroids or steroid-like substances.” The public health advisory also stated that a...
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Gil Welch at Dartmouth goes for the throat in a New York Times editorial. Some believe that finding more abnormalities is the right strategy to improve the nation’s health, but how much it reduces death and disability is...
In a recent speech on healthcare reform, President Obama argued that while the current system works for many in this country, it fails hundreds of thousands of others. So make no mistake, the status quo on healthcare is not an...
Peter Orszag trumpets the new Information Technology dashboard, a browser-based tool that brings the concept of transparency to practice around government spending on IT projects. Yesterday, the federal “IT Dashboard”...
New York Times writer David Leonhardt offers his test for healthcare reform: how a new system manages prostate cancer cases. Leonhardt writes: The prostate cancer test will determine whether President Obama and Congress put...
Check out Gary Stix’s February 2004 critique of the relevance of behavioral economics: Having spent much of his career studying human behavior within social networks, [University of Chicago professor Gary] Becker, who holds...
The most recent Wired has a series of articles on how tracking personal data is changing people’s behaviors. They cite the Nike+ system as an example of the potential revolutionary effect of self measurement. Nike+...
Some department stores in the United States require employees to carry clear plastic handbags so the company security folks can quickly determine whether there’s any shoplifting going on. I’d think something...
In the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer updates us on the Stanford “marshmallow” experiments from the late 1960s. Kids were offered a single marshmallow, with the promise of another if they could refrain for several...
This article from The New York Times suggests that we need a cultural shift around healthcare in the United States. Despite our intuition, more is not better. Can we import frugal chic into our medical care? It’s up to...
