policy

“To harness this untapped power of subtraction in the future, we need to understand why we haven’t embraced it in the past.

It’s tax-day today. It is also the forever day for tobacco companies when their settlement requires a payment of $9 billion to the states for the cost of tobacco-related illnesses, cardiovascular disease, lung disease, and cancers.

The FDA has delayed labeling of our foods “added sugar” content until 2020, a new paper in Circulation tallies the costs and benefits of the policy in general.

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public Health Reports offers a reason 

I once asked a Seattle businessman what he thought of consultants. "They borrow your watch to tell you what time it is," he said coldly.