The Myth About Strangers Poisoning Kids’ Halloween Candy
Aaron Carroll October 31, 2012
I think I’ll likely just post this every Halloween: As October draws to a close and children begin to pick their Halloween costumes and anticipate
I think I’ll likely just post this every Halloween: As October draws to a close and children begin to pick their Halloween costumes and anticipate
Dan Diamond points me to this Kaiser Poll (emphasis mine): The October Health Tracking Poll finds, one week before the presidential election, the economy remains
I just finished reading The Joy of x, by Steven Strogatz. It’s delightful, probably famously so given his series of New York Times columns based on
Charles Roehrig answers the question using his illuminating triangle of painful choices. In brief, Simplson-Bowles is a heap o’ pain. The final chart locates Simpson-Bowles
Mike Godwin has a post up at Reason.com making a libertarian case for Obama over Romney. I’m really interested in the parts concerning Obamacare. First,
Analyzing nationally representative data on ambulatory visits, Joseph Frank, John Ayanian, and Jeffrey Linder (Archives of Internal Medicine, 2012) illustrated the recent growth in opioid use,
I’ve written about this before, but it’s worth bringing it back to add in some numbers. Let’s recap my prior argument: There are plenty of
I have a number of friends who are quite concerned over this: Monster Beverage Corp.’s energy drinks have been cited in the deaths of five
This is a TIE-U post associated with Karoline Mortensen’s Introduction to Health Systems (UMD’s HLSA 601, Fall 2012). For other posts in this series, see the course intro. In Primary
For the next nine days, Americans will finish the dogfight of the 2012 election. In health policy, this dogfight is, and ought to be, focused
This is a purely personal post, so if you only come here for the health policy, stop reading now. When you have kids, you want