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A thread on entertaining effects of taxes, tariffs, and bans 👇 A ban on exporting glass in Hong Kong: x.com/devonzuegel/st…

Food as medicine?: individualized diets delivered to home associated with less hospital admissions and lower costs (matching, not randomized) jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai… by Seth A. Berkowitz and colleagues UNC-Chapel Hill editorial Dariush Mozaffarian Jerold Mande Tufts Nutrition JAMA Internal Medicine

In ‘16, Mark Trusheim Bill Cassidy, M.D. and I developed “Netflix” model for state financing of HepC treatment. Louisiana Department of Health Rebekah Gee MD Washington State Department of Health pursuing w/ Gilead Sciences AbbVie. But in what other disease areas might it apply? We propose a framework. healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

Designating our streets primarily for vehicle flow is not a free choice for society. It excludes a multitude of other options and limits the huge potential of our public spaces.

A great op-ed by Kate Baicker and Amitabh Chandra that gets into the tough questions the campaigns should be debating: “Discussing whether “health care is a right” avoids the harder question of “how much health care is a right?” bostonglobe.com/2019/12/23/opi…

Google Scholar has parsed this cafeteria lunch menu as an author list, and it's delightful

This newsletter is too bizarre for words. bloomberg.com/view/articles/…

Air pollution reduces global life expectancy by 2.2 years on average. That’s more than alcohol use, unsafe water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, and malaria combined. aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/upl…

according to the @ft, the uk now has the worst access to healthcare in europe (and shocker: it’s worse than america’s too)

1990: zero states with obesity rates above 20% 2018: zero states with obesity rates below 20% Not to mention an explosion in chronic disease, cancer, ADHD, inflammation... Something has to change. And that something is our broken food system.

Looking across coun­tries reveals that those with the highest excess deaths typically experienced the big­gest increases in fuel costs econ.st/3MgeN7X

In their new Forefront article, Fred McElwee, Amanda Cole, Louis Garrison, + Adrian Towse from Health Economics Research Centre (HERC) + Office of Health Economics discuss how it is difficult to accurately measure the contribution of prior federal funding to a specific drug product’s development. bit.ly/3KEaZvU

Look how the leading causes of death in the US have changed over the past 4 years JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

We just analysed the road casualty data for Oxford and Oxfordshire 2023. In Oxford, there were 47 Serious Injuries on our roads (& zero fatalities). 23 were to cyclists, 8 pedestrians, 8 motorcyclists, 4 car occupants and 4 other vehicles BBC Oxfordshire Oxford Mail Oxford Clarion

Relying on private hospitals is helping the NHS to cut waiting times — but it’s also fueling a two-track system trib.al/04ksT58

The green marble and natural tones in this Paris apartment >>

Air pollution in Oxford continues to fall, according to the 2024 Air Quality report issued by the City Council today. NO2 pollution fell 10% from 2023 levels, and 24% on the High where electric buses made a big difference. Levels in LTNs and their boundary roads also decreased.

A visualization of chaos: 41 triple pendulums with very slightly different initial conditions

I’m increasingly of the belief that incentive design is the most important problem to work on. Humans are good at overcoming obstacles when they have reason to do so — the worst problems tend to be ones of cooperation, not technological or scientific understanding.

What is politics? Children’s answers ...