Saturday, March 22, 2014

Saturday Stories: Saving Lives, Drug Prices, and Protein

80,000 hours ponders how many lives a doctor actually saves in a career.

Andre Picard in the Globe and Mail explores the need for, no matter how painful, dispassionate analysis in setting drug prices.

Kris Gunnars over on Authority Nutrition covers dietary protein.

[And if you don't follow me on Twitter or Facebook here's my interview with Anna Maria Tremonti for CBC's The Current where we had the luxury of time to really discuss The Diet Fix, and here's a piece I did for the Globe and Mail rebutting Margaret Wente's ill-informed assertion that menu board calories are a bad plan]