Cavalcade of Risk #49

Recent Articles

• Evidence that Women are the stronger sex: Mortality after the death of a spouse

  September 30, 2008 in Academic Articles

  A few papers have found that mortality rises after the death of the spouse.  Some researchers have inferred that this is due to a causal effect of this emotionally traumatic event.  Further, married individuals generally …

• Side-by-side comparison of the presidential candidates’ health care policy

  September 29, 2008 in Current Events, Public Policy

  The Health08.org website has a great tool to give voters a side-by-side comparison of John McCain and Barack Obama’s stance on a variety of health care …

• Serious Medical Condition: Brewers Fever!

  September 28, 2008 in Miscellaneous

  The Milwaukee Brewers have made it to post-season play for the first time since 1982!  If you are a Brewers fans, check out Bob Uecker’s call of …

• Results of the Health Care Bloggers Survey

  September 26, 2008 in Blogging

  Who are health care bloggers?  Ivor Kovic, Ileana Lulic, Gordana Brumini (2008) conducted a survey to find out. “The majority of responding bloggers …

• Hire the Healthcare Economist

  September 26, 2008 in Current Events

  This year the Healthcare Economist, Jason Shafrin, will be completing his Ph.D. in health economics at the University of California, San Diego.  He will be available for interviewing at the …