I assume my readers have a good idea of how Sweden has handled the COVID crisis compared to the rest of Europe. Briefly, they kept their schools, restaurants, and bars open with voluntary precautions in place. Critics have concluded this was a mistake, because there have been a lot more deaths...
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Flu season is about to be upon us. I’ve written about this before, but it’s been a few years, so I thought I’d update some of the evidence (with my thanks to Juan Gervas, MD for compiling a nice list of relevant studies). This, in the face of the recent CDC...
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A report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that for the first time ever recorded, the mortality rate of middle-age whites in the U.S. has been increasing the last two decades. “After 1998, other rich countries’ mortality rates continued to decline by 2% a year. In contrast, US white...
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The New York Times published a great story about the tremendous growth of thyroid cancer diagnoses in South Korea. It’s based on a study authored by H. Gilbert Welch, MD, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School, who has been a voice of restraint in the growth of aggressive American medicine for...
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There was a fascinating article in The Atlantic written by one of America’s leading bioethicists, Ezekiel Emanuel, who is the brother of Rahm Emanuel, who left the Obama administration to become the mayor of Chicago. The article is entitled Why I Hope to Die at 75. Dr. Emanuel starts by debunking...
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