It’s easy to forget that seeing an NP was not common until the past 20 years or so. The first NP students enrolled in 1965. It took between 30 to 40 years before NPs gained the authority to do more than work as glorified nurses.
Thursday Links
- Pharma: Medicare drug price negotiation could slow the search for a cure for cancer.
- Economic freedom is positively correlated with civic virtue.
- Countries with the highest economic growth rates have the lowest birth rates.
- Epidemiologists now estimate that 40 percent of cancers, and a similar share of cancer deaths, can be attributed to risk factors that people can control.
- Why we don’t actually need USAID.
The Atlantic: Legal Weed Not Living Up to its Promises
Nearly half of states have legalized marijuana use in one form or another. Colorado and Washington State were the first to legalize cannabis more than a dozen years ago. In the years since, 22 other states followed suit. There are a variety of reasons.
Wednesday Links
- Latest evidence: the Covid vaccine works.
- Trump EO: Each new regulation (rule) must be offset by removing 10 other rules.
- There are a lot of authoritarians on the left.
- 30% of independent pharmacists will not carry Medicare’s price-negotiated drugs.
- ADHD is linked with a lifespan that’s nearly seven years shorter for men, and about nine years shorter for women.