Day: January 13, 2014

Healthcare Triage: Antibiotic Myths

We’re going more health than policy this week: Antibiotics are one of the greatest medical innovations ever, responsible for saving something like a gazillion lives.

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India defeats polio

From TPHealth: On Monday, Indian officials announced that no polio cases had been reported in the country for a third consecutive year — a major milestone for

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Questionable TV as birth control

Austin sent me this NBER paper. “Media Influences on Social Outcomes: The Impact of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant on Teen Childbearing“: This paper explores how

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The health care workforce

On supply: In the January 2014 issue of the Journal of Health Economics, Kevin Stange documents the dramatic rise in nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs)

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