Assorted Links

• reservations about kombucha
• an “alternative” treatment for asthma. Jane Brody, trained to think in black and white, manages not to. But not without apologizing: the article begins: Please forgive me for telling you this. . .
• why is this excellent article about health-care improvement by an economics reporter?

Thanks to Carl Willat, Peter McDonnell, Stephen Marsh, and someone else whose name I cannot find.