November 2024

A Look at Bariatric Surgery

Obesity isn’t new, but the obesity epidemic is. We went from a few corpulent queens and kings, like Henry VIII and Louis VI (known as Louis le Gros, or “Louis the Fat”), to a pandemic of obesity, now considered to be perhaps the direst and most poorly contained public health threat of our time. Today,

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Cannabis and Cars 

Did traffic fatalities increase or decrease after cannabis legalization? Is cannabis-impaired driving a public health and safety concern? Well, the number of tickets for cannabis-impaired driving went up in Washington State after legalization, as did the proportion of drivers in fatal car crashes in Colorado who tested positive for marijuana use. But, in both cases,

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