Hormonal contraception created the ability for women to delay or go months without having their menstrual period. This was initially thought to be detrimental to women’s health but was later decided it made no difference and became a selling point for certain brands of contraceptives. Nowadays there is a different type of pill intended to regulate menstrual bleeding. However, in this case it’s designed to bring about the onset of menstruation rather than delay it and the drugs are the same pills used in chemical abortions.
Category: Drug Prices & Regulations
Wednesday Links – 26 October 2022
- John Cochrane on Liz Truss: She had good ideas, but mismanaged the marketing and the politics.
- Politicizing science: The leading journal Nature Human Behaviour has effectively announced that it will not publish studies that show the wrong kind of differences between human groups.
- Medicare Advantage Star Ratings: Are too many plans above average?
- Lessons from the lockdown: Charter schools and Catholic schools did better than public schools. (WSJ)
- Between December 2020 and mid-May 2022, the U.S. wasted 82.1 million doses of Covid vaccine. (WSJ)
Surgeon General Believes Toxic Workplaces are a Public Health Hazard (Seriously?)
It seems in recent years that the definition of public health has grown to include a lot of things seemingly unrelated to public health. The age-old definition of public health includes combating infectious disease and communicable illnesses. Covid-19 is definitely something that can be passed around, as is influenza. Attempts to control the spread of deadly pathogens falls well within the area of public health.
Friday Links
- Tyler Cowen compares Classical Liberalism with the New Right.
- The nation’s capital now has an estimated 120 homeless tent cities and their growth shows no signs of slowing down.
- Uber Eats to deliver marijuana in Canada.
- More details on the lab-created (and much more dangerous) omicron virus. Are scientists playing Russian roulette?
- ARPA is the protégé of DARPA – aimed at game changing innovations in medicine.
- Our health care data infrastructure is broken. What difference does that make?