- What made the California fires worse: environmental protection for the smelt.
- Jimmy Carter’s boldest deregulation idea never happened.
- Lessons from all the past efforts to cut wasteful government spending.
- There is no relationship between climate change and wildfires.
- How long we live is 25% determined by our genes and 75% determined by lifestyle and environment. (NYT)
- Claim: breastfeeding could save 800,000 child lives a year.
- The virtual cell: “Scientists are now designing computer programs that may unlock the ability to simulate human cells, giving researchers the ability to predict the effect of a drug, mutation, virus, or any other change in the body, and in turn making physical experiments more targeted and likelier to succeed.”
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Friday Links
- Medical debt no longer to appear on credit reports.
- Bad news: FDA threatens drug companies over communicating the benefits of off label uses of drugs.
- Correcting 3 myths about thalidomide:
- The FDA learned about the problems with thalidomide at the same time as the public.
- Far from being banished, thalidomide and some close variants are available and widely used today,
- Drugs today are no safer than they were in the thalidomide era.
- Why so many people hate health insurance companies.
- Why we need health insurance companies.
- Bidenomics: The White House values health gains resulting from the government’s climate regulations 10 times higher than identical improvements resulting from private sector medical innovation.
- A blow-by-blow description of how the 5 presidents interacted at the Carter funeral.
Thursday Links
- Trudeau’s legacy: Canada’s per capita income has fallen to below 70% of what it is in the U.S.
- Do hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses? Maybe not.
- Telemedicine under Medicare gets a 3-month extension.
- Each year, 120,000 die from snake bites and about 400,000 lose limbs to amputation.
- Study: Sugary drinks were linked to 2.2 million additional cases of Type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million cases of cardiovascular disease in 2020, with a disproportionate share of those cases concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
- Wastewater, even after treatment to make it drinkable, contains high levels of forever chemicals.
- Evolution of Part D plans over a decade: more prior authorization and step therapy requirements
Private Equity Found Yet Another Way to Surprise Medical Bill Patients
A word to the wise: when discussing a preventive colonoscopy with your physician, never mention any symptom involving your colon.