Louisiana just reinstated a mask mandate in the face of the Delta variant. This is a major win for vulnerable populations, including infants in daycares, where administrators have been dropping mask requirements due to families complaining about them.
I recently spent 48 hours in the hospital via an emergency room admission. Twenty-four of these hours were in a hallway bed. It was horrifying, a real nightmare! Very elderly and demented patients stuck in ED hallway beds, some pleading nonstop for help, or trying to get off of the gurney; HIPAA violations everywhere; nurses to harrassed to provide any help besides the most emergent. Even though I was moved to a private room for the last 24 hours of my stay, care was substandard to say the least. This pandemic will either wake up our health care system by so brutally exposing its problems, or it might be the thing that finally pushes the US backward on the scale of development and basic care for its people.
"Additional firearm laws are associated with fewer firearm homicides both within the states where the laws are enacted and elsewhere in the United States. " It is good to see non-government researchers investigating gun harm, since the CDC has been unproductively prohibited from researching this very real health threat.
It is good that the authors followed the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) reporting guidelines, and they make the excellent point that "The risks and benefits of cannabis legalization have been debated as if all legalization laws were the same, but our results suggest that more nuance in characterizing cannabis policies is warranted." However, one limitation not mentioned is that Medicaid claims were evidently not included in the analysis.
It is unclear whether this article reaches any conclusions, or what methods they use, based on the first page, which is all that is provided free of cost on the publisher's web site.
Wow--a 93% (β = −0.93; 95% reduction in law enforcement seizures of cannabis in RCL states. But street prices of illegal opioids increased, and law enforcement seizures decreased--could be that reducing marijuana arrests removed a key entry to also discovering opioids on the part of law enforcement.
While the study's conclusion, "Race and religious beliefs should be considered when providing reproductive health information to young women with diabetes." is undoubtedly true, the results as reported in the abstract do not give any suggestions as to how this might be actualized.
It is interesting that the cartoon was better at conveying information, but participants preferred the anatomical drawing. Perhaps this suggests that both should be present for maximum effect, for example, an anatomical drawing on the front and a cartoon inside. Alternatively, the participants may have been expressing social desirability bias when they indicated that they preferred the anatomical drawing.
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