Growing up in a small town we filled our prescriptions at Emery’s Drug. It was the quintessential small-town drugstore, with a soda fountain and barstools on one side with gifts, cards, candy and sundry items on the other. The pharmacy counter was at the back of the store. Emery’s Drug closed down nearly 30 years ago, although if you travel back to my hometown the faded sign is still there. The pharmacy industry is facing headwinds and Fortunate magazine explains why.
Category: Policy & Legislation
Wednesday Links
- Results of polygenic screening: There are simply no more people with Down’s to be seen on the streets of Iceland and Denmark.
- Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls for a warning label on social media platforms.
- Kansas sues Pfizer for marketing its Covid-19 vaccine as “safe” even though it “knew” the vaccine was connected to “serious adverse events.”
- “Cost-disease socialism” occurs when you respond to the high cost of something by subsidizing it, but then attach strings that limit the supply and drive costs up further.
- John Tierney explains the “March of Dimes Syndrome.”
- The case for marriage.
FDA Blocks Better Sunblocks
July 4th is just around the corner on my calendar, but summer has already arrived in Texas. After a rainy spring, the sun has finally burned off the cloud cover and has begun to fry my grass. Hello big water bills! The grass is not the only thing the sun fries in Texas (and elsewhere). It also fries Americans’ skin.
Saturday Links
- Some homework works: A randomized controlled trial of employees in a Chinese tech firm found that two days of work from home and three days in the office reduced quit rates, improved job satisfaction and had no impact on performance, when compared with employees who worked full-time in the office.
- $35 insulin actually started under Trump, but the real credit goes to Eli Lilly.
- Former CDC director admits “no one wanted to release negative information about Covid vaccines.”
- Per pupil school spending has more than quadrupled since 1960, although student test scores have barely budged.
- In 2021, the Biden administration pledged it would build 500,000 electric vehicle charging stations by 2030. So far, it has built only 7.
- Conflicting polls: Did more people die from the Covid vaccine than from Covid?