Just How Much Racial Bias Is There? A previous study found that doctors who scored higher on a racial bias test were less prone to give clot-busting drugs to black patients rather than white patients. Follow up: the "biased" doctors actually treated patients more equally. [link]

Should We Medicate Healthy Patients? Part II. "This study does not indicate that we should be putting statins in the drinking water or fortifying cereal with statins." [link]

Employers as Doctors Update. About 29% of big employers had or were planning to install on-site health clinics in 2008….Pitney Bowes says that for every $1 it spends on its clinics, it saves $1 in health-care costs and gains an additional $1 in increased productivity. [link]

Not if You Have an HSA. Because Pitney Bowes waived employees' co-pays on certain prescription drugs, the company says its cost of treating diabetic workers is down 14% and costs are down 17% for asthmatics. [link] Federal law precludes this option for Health Savings Account plans.