While reading over an analysis of decades-old studies of LSD as a treatment for alcoholism last week, I found that the so-called number needed to treat was 6 to prevent alcohol misuse. In other words, treat six people and one would benefit.
via www.npr.org
Golly - it's only taken...what...20 years to make headlines?
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A great video on the American Healthcare System.
Huge, illogical variation of care - we've been saying it for years...
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What's the Big Idea?
via bigthink.com
A great quote from the cognitive researcher interviewed in this article: "We can study cars and all their physical relationships and know exactly how they work. It in no way prepares us to understand traffic when they all get together and start interacting."
Co-opted: "We can understand leptin and calories and exactly how they work, but in no way does it prepare us to understand how people decide to lose weight."
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