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Columnist Scott LaFee covers the educational and quirky health news of the week.

It should come as no surprise that the CEOs and leaders of health care companies are well compensated. In 2023, the median industry CEO salary was $4.1 million. That means half of CEOs made more, half made less. The average salary was $11 million.Stephane Bancel, the guy who calls the shots for COVID vaccine-maker Moderna, topped the list with an annual salary of $305 million.

In 1998, the Ig Nobel Prize in science education went to Dolores Krieger, professor emerita at New York University, for her advocacy of therapeutic touch, which involves nurses manipulating patients’ energy fields by carefully avoiding actually touching the patients at all.The cautionary advice to never pluck a gray hair because two or more will come back in its place is not true. Plucking one gray hair means only that it will be replaced by another gray hair.

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