Source: MetLife Has to Pay a $25 Million Fine Over ‘Annuity Switching’ – Fortune

When an anonymous neighbour complained that Jacqui Kendrick’s kids were ‘unsupervised’ outside, a caseworker for Child and Family Services showed up to investigate. Why is this even an issue?

Source: Winnipeg mom is investigated for letting kids play alone in backyard : TreeHugger

When I stumbled upon this article my first thought was satire, perhaps from The Onion.

But it’s not.  It’s real.

J Epidemiol Community Health. 2016 Mar 21. pii: jech-2015-207097. doi: 10.1136/jech-2015-207097. [Epub ahead of print]

Source: Association of retirement age with mortality: a population-based longitudinal study among older adults in the USA. – PubMed – NCBI

I’m never retiring.

Controlling sleep apnea may lessen the risk of recurrent atrial fibrillation episodes.

The review, published in JACC Clinical Electrophysiology, analyzed seven studies that followed more than 1,000 patients with both sleep apnea and recurrent AF. Overall, CPAP reduced AF episodes by 42 percent. And it benefited patients regardless of whether their AF was managed with medication or a catheter ablation procedure.

The downside is that none of the studies was a controlled clinical trial, which offers the best proof of a treatment’s benefits.

Source: Treating Sleep Apnea May Help AF: Health After 50

Source: A Chinese temple built a robot monk to spread the teachings of Buddhism — Quartz

Source: World Penguin Day

Now you know.

Joint surgery linked to short-term mortality and longer-term heart attack and mortality

• Among patients undergoing joint surgery, those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have almost double the risk of death at 6 weeks compared with those without RA, as well as an increased risk of death and myocardial infarction (MI) at 1 year.

• Note that the risks are elevated not just for surgeries like hip joint replacement, but also for relatively minor procedures such as shoulder surgery.

Source: Mortality Risk Increased Post Joint Surgery in RA | Medpage Today

Forget media archetypes of older Millennials as college-educated singles living in cities. The typical 29-year-old is living with a partner in the suburbs—without a bachelor’s degree.

Source: The Average 29-Year-Old – The Atlantic