Dog cloning is not as cuddly as it looks (New Scientist)
Review of Dog, Inc.: The Uncanny Inside Story of Cloning Man’s Best Friend
Role of Age, Sex, and Race on Cardiac and Total Mortality Associated With Super Bowl Wins and Losses (Clinical Cardiology)
A Super Bowl loss for individual’s favored team triggered increased deaths in both men and women, especially in older patients. A Super Bowl win reduced deaths more in people age 65+ and women.
Twitter Can’t Save You (NYT)
Review of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Health reform repeal will lead to single payer, Medicare for all (KevinMD)
Dr. Kevin Pho’s opinion: Should Conservatives succeed in repeal, that, ironically, would be the first steps towards a Medicare for all, single payer system, which would be an infinitely worse proposition for opponents.
Ethics of the individual mandate (KevinMD)
This post generated some good discussion: If it is unethical to force a competent person to take antibiotics even if it might save his life, how can it be perfectly ethical to require him to buy a product that might be to his benefit?
Politics and the Court (NYT)
Supreme Court justices receive tenure for life so they can exercise their judgment independently. Our legal system was designed to separate law from politics precisely because they are so closely tied. Justice Antonin Scalia is “taking political partisanship to levels not seen in over half a century.” Clarence Thomas is not far behind.
Mass shootings is a symptom of our nation’s broken health care system (KevinMD)
When the mentally ill or the seriously distressed can’t access care, we are all at risk.
Image: New Scientist
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