- Other countries have drug approval reciprocity (where one country accepts another’s approval including our own FDA approval), so why don’t we?
- Study: Mediterranean diet reduces heart disease in women (24%) by just as much as it does in men.
- Study: Among older patients with metastatic cancer, the majority received aggressive treatment in their final 30 days. A quarter underwent cancer treatment: surgery, radiation, chemotherapy.
- Expert: with the standard deli sandwich, “you’re literally eating a heart bomb.” (WSJ)
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Wednesday Links
- US government agencies may have been double billed for work in the Wuhan Lab.
- How weight loss drugs actually work.
- Letting AI practice medicine. (recommended)
- Why are pediatric mortality rates rising?
- Why free community college didn’t work in Oregon.
- Evidence that AI can substantially improve worker productivity.
- California’s “Train to Nowhere.”
Monday Links
- Ex-CDC Director “No Doubt” American Tax Dollars Funded Gain-of-Function Research at Wuhan Lab.
- Why banks fail: The best commentary on SVB: Scott Sumners, John Cochrane and Larry Kotlikoff.
- During the Covid pandemic, people cancelled doctors appointments. As a result, more people died.
- California’s cancellation of Walgreens isn’t as simple as it sounds.
- Jeffrey Singer on the Iron Law of Prohibition: “The harder the law enforcement, the harder the drug.”
- Why primary care physicians are not practicing at the top of their license.
Saturday Links
- Health officials and governors in more than half the country are now restricted from issuing mask mandates and school closures.
- The 42% of adults who are obese costs the US health system 173 billion dollars a year, including cardiovascular disease, cancers, depression, breathing issues, and skeletal issues. Despite this, 98 percent of Americans do not receive treatment for their obesity.
- Greg Mankiw: “The Biden administration faces a trilemma: They would like to (1) increase spending on programs they consider important, (2) not raise taxes on those making less than $400,000 a year, and (3) put fiscal policy on a sustainable path. But the stark reality is that they can have only 2 out of the 3.”
- A defense of Vinyl chloride. (despite the dead fish)
- IRS: 42K federal workers are cheating on their taxes.