Unemployment raises the risk of death by about 63%, a meta-analysis found
The evidence that recessions and job loss kill is stronger than it looks. Three landmark studies quantify the mortality signal — and where it stops being causal.
13.7% of US households were food insecure in 2024. It tracks earlier death
Federal statistics put 18.3 million households short of food last year. A 57,404-person cohort links lower food security to higher premature mortality and years of lost life expectancy.
Scaling kangaroo mother care in India could save 26,000 newborns a year
A modelling study estimates near-universal kangaroo care would avert 1.6 million disability-adjusted life-years and shield 57,000 households from catastrophic health costs, with most gains among the poorest.
Medical debt is the largest US debt in collections. Erasing it changed little.
Americans owed about $140 billion in medical bills in collections. But two randomized experiments that relieved debt found no average effect on credit, financial distress or mental health.
High deductibles cut care across the board — the needed with the wasteful
When a large firm moved everyone to a high-deductible plan, spending fell about 12-14%. The catch: people cut valuable and low-value care alike, and barely shopped on price.
Smoking's EU hospital bill: EUR 5bn in Spain alone, and the authors call it a floor
An econometric analysis of the 2019 European Health Interview Survey prices smoking-attributable inpatient and daycare hospitalisation across the EU — deliberately excluding every other kind of care.
In eight European countries, obesity added hospital nights. Underweight added far more
A survey-based analysis of the European Health Interview Survey puts a price on Europe's obesity-related hospital use, and finds the strongest single association is not with obesity at all.
An AI eye copilot raised correct diagnoses from 75% to 92% in a randomised trial
EyeFM was tested as an assistant to 16 ophthalmologists screening 668 high-risk patients in China. Patients in the AI arm also followed referral advice more often.
A hospital chatbot missed its primary endpoint, then projected $146,000 in savings
Singapore General Hospital randomised residents to work with and without an LLM assistant. Documentation time fell by 1.82 minutes, which was not significant. The economic model used the point estimates anyway.