COPD and Generalizability

Ken Covinksy with a comprehensive comment on a recent NEJM study on preventing  Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbations.  This randomized control trial compared two

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Facebook news

I wasn’t going to write about my own Facebook-related experience this weekend, but then I saw two Facebook items in the news today, one related

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Does practice make perfect?

Hospitals that perform a greater volume of a specific procedure do it better, right? Well, actually, that’s believable and supported by evidence. Now for the

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College Daze

Great essay by George Will that captures the essence of the Baby Boomers for me–self love through the abuse of their kids in the name

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Social Security Primer

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has a nice overview of the two ways that Social Security is viewed (off budget v. unified budget). 

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All things in moderation

Scott Sumner writes the following to Tyler Cowen, …I am complete burned out [sic], and have been for months.  I’ve blogged an average of eight

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The Spring Chickens

NY Times with feature on young pundits and how blogging has changed the media landscape.  Update: a non-random subset of said pundits were left out

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