Economists have long known that sunshine is good for stockmarkets, perhaps because nice weather makes people more optimistic.
Increasing numbers of high-cost cancer drugs have been referred to the fund because Nice has turned them down.
The problem arises because Nice mostly deals with drugs that are taken over time, and often many years, which spreads out the costs to the NHS.
And patients with rare diseases were getting a raw deal because NICE was rejecting specialised drugs that are inevitably pricier than those that serve a larger market.Health-care managers in other countries sometimes wonder if NICE is worth copying.
The debate about HRT was reignited this week because Nice, the Government's official advisory body on healthcare, has finally given it the official thumbs up, ending years of conflicting advice.
Teen Ink magazine, which helped me conduct the essay contest and chose the finalists, observes that bullying is compounded by social media because nice kids will casually press the button on a vicious Facebook comment that they might never express face to face.
