Description: This is an article that highlights recommended reading by the Health Practice area communications committee. The readings cover a broad subject matter from risk assessment, medical technology to uninsured.

Description: This web page contains links to the following articles of interest to actuaries: 1. A July 9, 2011 New York Times editorial about recent studies suggesting that antidepressants aren’t effective after all, and 2. A March 10, 2011 Time Magazine article by Joel Stein titled, 'Data Mining: How Companies Now Know Everything About You.'

Description: This article discusses the growing number of cases of dementia and its effects on economics and loved ones.

Description: A discussion about regulators, lawmakers, actuaries and insurers working together to keep health insurance costs affordable to the consumer but also profitable enough for insurers to continue to offer the product.

Description: Letters to the editor about the feature article “The Dementia Epidemic: Are We Ready?” that ran in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of The Actuary.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: This is a book review of 'What Healthy People Know by Dr. Bob Gleeson, a book focusing on the seven things that healthy people do to say healthy and live long. The reviewer relates these activities to the actuarial career.

Description: There are growing concerns that the Asian bird flu virus will evolve into a form that can be transmitted from human to human, thus unleashing a new global flu pandemic. This article uses the Spanish flu epidemic and the German life insurance portfolio to analyze the additional claims expenditure due to a pandemic.

Description: The author discusses his presentation at the National Tornado Summit on Midwest climate research and also the intersection of health care utilization and severe weather, including highlights from the forthcoming Actuaries Climate Index.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.