I toured a naturally occurring retirement community (NORC) in Queens, New York a few years ago. It was an Aging in Place initiative, partly funded by the Denver-based Daniels Fund. Fun fact: The fund was established by Bill Daniels before he died. His fortune came from basically inventing cable TV. The purpose of a NORC is to allow people in the community to age in their own homes as long as possible, rather than forced to move into assisted living.
Category: Direct Primary Care
Tuesday Links
- Yglesias on why our life expectancy is lower than in other developed countries: Americans are more likely to die violently, to die in car accidents, and to die of drug overdoses than are Europeans. We’re also a lot fatter.
- Why doing university-based research has become so costly.
- Self-directed care is now available for veterans in rural areas – and it works.
- Fallout from the Dobbs decision: tubal ligations and vasectomies are up.
- Suppose you are willing to be a guinea pig in a medical experiment. Where can you find out where your sacrifice will have the highest social value? No one seems to know.
Monday Links
- Arnold Kling: My model of nonprofits says that they please donors without necessarily accomplishing anything.
- The increase in pedestrian deaths is not caused by larger vehicles.
- Making medical school tuition free won’t solve the shortage of primary care physicians.
- Why a full body MRI is not a good idea even if it’s free.
- Newer antibiotics are safer and more effective. So why aren’t doctors prescribing them?
Accelerated Approval Benefits Patients with Some Caveats
Nowadays more than four-in-five drugs granted accelerated approval are oncology drugs (85%). How well is it working? That depends. The program to grant patients early access to promising new drugs does just that: it is used a lot. Since it began in 1992, 290 drugs have been approved through the accelerated program. That works out to more than nine a year, on average, or nearly one a month. By any measure that accelerated access to new drugs.