Gluten-free January Participants: Take the Survey!

Matt Lentzner, Janine Jagger and I have designed a survey for participants of Gluten-free January, using the online application StatCrunch. Janine is an epidemiologist who studies healthcare worker safety at the University of Virginia; she has experience designing surveys for data collection so we're glad to have her on board. The survey will allow us to systematically gather and analyze data on the results of Gluten-free January. It will be 100 percent anonymous-- none of your answers will be connected to your identity in any way.

This survey has the potential to be really informative, but it will only work if you respond! The more people who take the survey, the more informative it will be, even if you didn't avoid gluten for a single day. If not very many people respond, it will be highly susceptible to "selection bias", where perhaps the only people who responded are people who improved the most, skewing the results.

Matt will be sending the survey out to everyone on his mailing list. Please complete it, even if you didn't end up avoiding gluten at all! There's no shame in it. The survey has responses built in for people who didn't avoid gluten. Your survey will still be useful!

We have potential data from over 500 people. After we crunch the numbers, I'll share them on the blog.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/01/gluten-free-january-participants-take.html

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Rerun: Why the states can?t drive health reform

I’m taking a break from blogging this week so am rerunning some favorite posts from 2010. Please visit the original post to comment. Sara Rosenbaum?s has an informative Perspective (Can States Pick up the Health Reform Torch?) in the current New England Journal of Medicine. She argues that reforming health care at the state level [...]

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Why You Won?t Be Able to Get the Drug You Need, Part IV

Drug companies are more frequently concluding that the additional cost of continuing development of a drug is not worth its projected returns. In turn, they are voluntarily canceling late stage programs… As a result, drug programs are being cancelled in mid stage trials, when the profile of a new medicine starts to more fully emerge. [...]

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Bye, bye brokers?

In general I oppose the minimum Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) provision of the Affordable Care Act. If an insurer can help keep me healthy and out of the hospital and doctor’s office I’m happy to pay them to do so. But I have to admit I’m pleased that the new MLR rules are putting the [...]

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Cavalcade of Risk is up at Colorado Health Insurance Insider

The latest Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival is hosted at Colorado Health Insurance Insider. Plenty of interesting posts on Health Insurance and Healthcare reform, Life Insurance and Estate Planning, Property & Casualty Insurance, and Other Risky Business. Share

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Cavalcade of Risk is up

The latest edition of the Cavalcade of Risk blog carnival is posted at The Notwithstanding Blog. It’s well worth a look. Share

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How Long Does Cocaine Stay In Your System, Urine and Blood

How Long Does Cocaine Stay In Your System, Urine and Blood Cocaine (crack, snow, flake, and blow) is derived from the coca plant, Erythroxylon coca. It is a CNS stimulant that has a local anesthetic effect. In the streets, cocaine comes in the form of a powdered hydrochloride salt which is dissolved in water and then injected or snorted. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2009 alone, around 4.8 million young Americans (from age 12 and up) had used cocaine in its various form and that a million had used it at least once before the 2009 survey was made. The 2010 ?Monitoring The Future? [...]

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