- The Pasteur Act (apparently not in the Omnibus) would essentially pay for the development of new antibiotics in return for “free” use of subsequently invented drugs.
- Does St John’s Wort have any health benefits?
- Not in the omnibus bill: measures to strengthen the generic drug market. (InsideHealthPolicy: gated)
- US life expectancy down more than two years since 2019.
Author: Pieter Vorster
CA Lawsuit Seeks to Enforce Ban on Corporate Practice of Medicine
Private equity investors have been buying up thousands of health care businesses across the country. This includes everything from dermatology practices, to gastroenterology, to air ambulance services. If you seek care at an emergency room, there is a good chance that you will be treated by a physician employed by a staffing firm backed by private equity. Physicians…
Monday Links
- Cotopaxi Drugs joins 11 Walgreens stores that have closed in the last three years due to rising crime in San Francisco. HT: CTUP
- Study: After a nuclear accident, Japan shut down all its nuclear reactors. That led to an increase in energy prices and that led to more deaths.
- Every time a drug switches from prescription to OTC, the total number of doctor visits drops.
- Does earlier detection of lung cancer lead to better survival: Here’s why we don’t know.
- David Friedman on Black Reparations and other issues. Recommended.
- Tyler Cowen: “Single parent families can be disastrous. In Colombia the current rate of that is 84 (!) percent. In Argentina, Mexico, and Chile it is more than half. For India I see estimates ranging from 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent for single parent families.”