#health-policy — Public Fediverse posts
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Former minister with terminal cancer urges MPs not to bring back assisted dying bill https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/20/assisted-dying-bill-ashley-dalton-health-minister-cancer #AssistedDying #HealthPolicy #Cancer #Law #UkNews #Labour #HouseOfLords #Politics #Health
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At least 80% responsibility for ill health in old age down to individual, says study https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/20/responsibility-ill-health-old-age-oxford-longevity-project-study #LifeExpectancy #Health #HealthPolicy #OlderPeople #Society #UkNews #MedicalResearch #Science
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Push for Australia to extract helium as Iran war impacts global supply
By Alison BranleyHelium is needed in health care and to make microchips and semiconductors, but the Middle East war has affected supply. Some think it is an opportunity for Australia's gas industry.
#NaturalResources #MiningandMetalsIndustry #ComputerScience #HealthPolicy #Radiology #Manufacturing #AlisonBranley
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Diphtheria is back in Australia. Here's what to know
By Audrey CourtyOnce a major cause of childhood deaths, diphtheria was largely eliminated through vaccination. Health authorities say falling immunity may now be helping the disease spread again.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-16/what-to-know-about-diphtheria-as-outbreak-grows/106684572
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Wes Streeting vowed to fix ‘broken’ NHS but critics say he failed to deliver https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/14/wes-streeting-vowed-fix-broken-nhs-critics-failed #WesStreeting #HealthPolicy #Politics #Health #LabourPartyLeadership #Labour #PublicServicesPolicy #Society #UkNews
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Trump Administration Promotes Fertility Policies Amid Criticism Over Approach
📰 Original title: MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Trump Administration Promotes Fertility Policies Amid Criticism Over Approach
📰 Original title: MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/trump-administration-promotes-fertility-policies-amid-criticism-over-approach.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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JD Vance threatens health funding to states that don’t comply with White House anti-fraud effort https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/jd-vance-anti-fraud-medicare-medicaid #UsHealthcare #JdVance #Medicaid #UsMedicare #HealthInsurance #DonaldTrump #TrumpAdministration #HealthPolicy #Health #UsPolitics #UsNews
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Massive Internal Dissent Roils Health Department as Key Figures Depart
Over 1,000 HHS staff demand Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. resign due to leadership and policy concerns. Learn why they are unhappy.
#HHSResignation, #KennedyLeadership, #PublicHealth, #EmployeeProtest, #HealthPolicy
https://newsletter.tf/hhs-employees-demand-kennedy-resignation-due-to-concerns/
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More than 1,000 current and former HHS employees have signed a letter asking for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign. This is a large number of people expressing strong disagreement.
#HHSResignation, #KennedyLeadership, #PublicHealth, #EmployeeProtest, #HealthPolicy
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GPs and hospitals in England to be required to share data to create single patient records https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/10/gps-and-hospitals-in-england-to-be-required-to-share-data-to-create-single-patient-records #Nhs #Health #Society #Politics #WesStreeting #HealthPolicy #UkNews #England
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Parents urged to encourage hand-washing amid hepatitis A outbreak in Wales https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/07/hand-washing-hepatitis-outbreak-wales #Wales #Hygiene #FoodSafety #Health #Society #UkNews #HealthPolicy #Children
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I’ve been trying to read more carefully about instrumental variables and make up my mind about when IV arguments are scientifically convincing.
Here's a tension I keep running into:
Should the scientific question alone determine the causal parameter of interest?
Or is it legitimate for the target parameter to reflect an interplay between scientific interest and the identifying assumptions we actually find tenable?
IVs can be difficult to interpret when instruments are weak, who “compliers” are is opaque, exclusion restrictions are debatable, or linear models are used in settings where the true data-generating process may be nonlinear.
On the other hand, when an entire body of (aspirationally causal) literature rests on methods that try to close backdoor paths, IVs offer a genuinely different identification strategy. That seems valuable for evidence triangulation, even if IV analyses have their criticisms.
What do you think? Are you a big IV proponent? Are you an IV critic?
When do you find IV evidence persuasive?
Some literature I've been reading & re-reading:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16755261/
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/47/4/1289/3095892
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4285626/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09332
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05639
#CausalInference #InstrumentalVariables #Econometrics #Statistics #DataScience #HealthPolicy
