Americans’ Drinking Remains at Record Low – https://news.gallup.com/poll/713534/americans-drinking-remains-record-low.aspx Remember people, This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Weed
For clinicians, these findings reinforce the importance of individualised decision making rather than a single preferred approach. For older adults who are tolerating statin therapy and wish to continue treatment, evidence from SAGA/SITE provides little reason to recommend routine discontinuation. Conversely, for patients who prioritise reducing medication burden, have limited life expectancy, have substantial polypharmacy, […]
Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 1,591 U.S. adults ages 22–75, this research uncovers a five-year difference between when current retirees, on average, actually left the workforce (age 57) and when future retirees expect to retire (age 62), with half of those planning to retire anticipating they’ll need to delay even further. Future retirees […]
A completely fabricated disease – Bixonimania and the epistemic fragility of artificial intelligence in medicine: lessons from a fabricated disease – https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landig/article/PIIS2589-7500(26)00071-3/fulltext? Whereas Cyberchondria is real – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberchondria
The class disparity in happiness is nothing new. The GSS data reveal that college-educated men were happier than their less-educated peers going back to the 1980s. And while the GSS shows somewhat steady levels of happiness from the 1980s through the 2000s, other well-being metrics suggest rising discontent in earlier decades. Mortality data, for instance, […]
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I now know what a luthier is. It’s interesting how a project evolves over the years.
Especially when you think you know what to do only to discover along the way you have no clue what’s really involved. Once I learned the process in producing a quality finished piece of wood I realized the project was well beyond my skill set.