Insurers have begun to propose big premium increases for coverage next year under the 2010 health law, as some struggle to make money in a market where their costs have soared.

Source: Health Insurers Struggle to Offset New Costs – WSJ

Source: More than 40 pilots were drunk on duty in India last year—most work for Jet Airways and IndiGo — Quartz

The City Council of Shawano has decided that parents should be held accountable. But experts say the move isn’t based on sound research.

Source: Wisconsin city to fine parents $681 if their kids bully. Is that fair? – CSMonitor.com

Government at it’s finest.

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