david proudman
@davidproudmanGlobal health economics (and tech). Passion for healthcare value/affordability. London - SF
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Attempts to explain the obesity epidemic through contamination, toxins, conspiracies, seed oils, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, lithium, or whatever else always strike me as annoying. What we must explain is an increase of ~200-350 calories a day in energy balance. That's all.
[getting angry at the price of eggs] i bet sauron will fix this
Keir Starmer asked by a Tory MP why he's cancelled Boris Johnson's 40 new hospital plan Starmer: "Because the promise of 40 new hospitals didn't involve 40, didn't involve hospitals, they weren't new and they weren't funded."
Lord Darzi’s report makes a sobering read, laying bare the challenges staff and patients are experiencing. The full report is well worth the read but if you’re struggling for time, @Carnall_Farrar have summarised the main points from the 159 page report ⤵️ carnallfarrar.com/darzi-investig…
This is an interesting idea: turning a cancer's drug resistance against it These are growth curves of tumours in mice, treated with a drug (a tyrosine kinase inhibitor). The tumours initially shrink but they all - slowly but surely - become resistant: This study aimed to convert…
I love it when my very real medical research reveals two perfect multivariate normally distributed clusters 15 standard deviations apart, something which happens all the time in real data
“A new study from Stanford shows remarkable differences between female and male brains. The researchers found no overlap between male and female, and rejected the idea of a "continuum."”
"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
Here is a question why didn't the tories borrow a trillion pounds - or even two - between 2010 and 2020 at really low interest rates and invest/repair them in schools, infrastructure and hospitals, train doctors and build lots of houses roads, railways, clean up the water supply,…
"I don't even know how to dip into the endowment. Just after I was appointed president, in one of the most memorable luncheons of my academic career, the Board of Governors forced me to sign a document promising to never ask them about the endowment." mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-uni…
When did US billboard and radio ads become 50% auto injury law? Why is it like that?
🚨 Austerity update 🚨 "With hindsight we probably should have taken advantage [of low interest rates] and borrowed more when times were more stable...and invested more." Former HMT permanent secretary (05-16) Nicholas Macpherson on Radio 4 Analysis ... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
Thanks to Ned Miles with @guardian for putting @UofGRegiusAnna and @SirMCaulfield in conversation with @MJSculpher, Nigel Paneth, and me about the promises of genomic medicine. theguardian.com/society/2023/s…
1/ The Medicare Advantage (MA) Quality Bonus Program was intended to encourage MA plans to compete for enrollees based on quality, but evidence suggests that it fails to achieve this goal and contributes to overpayments to MA insurers.
I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks. What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden. A summary 🧵
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