Daily Rounds: Supreme Court; Fat Cops And Robbers; Diabetes Surgery, And More
Daily Rounds: Supreme Court; Fat Cops And Robbers; Diabetes Surgery, And More
Supreme court moves to heart of health care case (Reuters) – “The Supreme Court confronts the core of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law on Tuesday when it hears arguments on whether Congress had the power to require most people in the United States to buy medical insurance.”
And an interesting side-note: Health care mandate will affect few, study finds (Huffington Post) – “Just 2 percent of the U.S. population would be subject to the aspect of health care reform at the center of a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court this week — the individual mandate, a study released Monday by the Urban Institute found. The analysis said 98 percent of Americans would either be exempt from the mandate — because of employer coverage, public health insurance or low income — or given subsidies to comply.”
Does it matter if policemen are fat? (Straight Statistics) – “Sir, Your leading article “Unfit for purpose” (March 17) poses the question: “How fast do you have to run to catch the average thief?” in the light of the Winsor Review’s finding that three-quarters of the UK’s male police officers are overweight or obese and need fitness testing. Surely due diligence requires that you establish the same statistics for the criminal community.”
Surgery for diabetes may be better than standard treatment (The New York Times) – “For some people with diabetes, surgery may be the best medicine. Two studies have found that weight-loss operations worked much better than the standard therapies for Type 2 diabetes in obese and overweight people whose blood sugar was out of control.”
Hospitals not shy about robotics claims (MedPage Today) – AUSTIN, Texas — “As use of robotic surgery has proliferated, so have hospitals’ unsubstantiated marketing claims for the procedures, investigators reported here. Among hospitals that marketed robotic gynecologic surgery on their websites, as many as 90% touted benefits that have minimal evidence-based support.”
Article source: http://commonhealth.wbur.org/roundup/daily-rounds-128
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