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Author: Devon Herrick

NYT: Trump Halts NIH Research Funding of the Effects of Climate Change on Health

Posted on April 21, 2025 by Devon Herrick

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will stop funding research on the health effects of climate change. This was a blow to researchers who had hoped to enrich themselves while engaged in activism aligned with partisan research.

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Do Regulations Make Daycare Safer or Just Less Affordable?

Posted on April 18, 2025April 17, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Every daycare death is a tragedy, but they are relatively rare. The study is dated, but from 1985 to 2003 about 1,000 children died during daycare arrangements. That is about one a week, out of a population of 10 million. A back-of-the-envelope analysis suggests that is a yearly probability of death of about 1-in-200,000.

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Would You Pay Extra for Better Access to a Physician?

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Devon Herrick

There are no easy solutions to ease the physician shortage. If doctors agreed to work 12-hour days, seven days a week that would about double the capacity. Of course that’s not going to happen. Or doctors could cut down the length of each visit from 10-15 minutes to 5-7 minutes. I doubt that would really work well either. But what if you could pay to jump to the head of the line? Or pay extra to make the line much shorter? That is possible, if not controversial.

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Vox Media: Scientists May Have a Cure for Allergies… for a Steep Price

Posted on April 16, 2025 by Devon Herrick

Medical researchers are finding that monoclonal antibodies from a biological drug Xolair (omalizumab) are really good at allergy relief. By good I mean one shot is good for months. It stops allergies at their source, before histamine is released.

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For many years, our health care blog was the only free enterprise health policy blog on the internet. Then, when the NCPA closed its doors, the health blog stopped as well.

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