- Study: Women’s brains age more slowly than men’s.
- GLP-1 drugs work against conditions like Alzheimer’s, osteoarthritis, and certain cancers. Are they anti-aging drugs as well?
- To be cost effective, Nordisk’s Wegovy would need to be cut by over 80 percent and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound would need to fall by nearly a third.
- Is America ignoring the best treatment for opioid addiction?
- Medicaid physician fees are approximately 71 percent of Medicare physician fees in 2024, including 69 percent for office visits, 68 percent for hospital and emergency department visits, 87 percent for obstetric care, and 79 percent for other services under our updated approach.
Category: Health Economics & Costs
Fast Company: Could a Mortgage Pay for Million-Dollar Gene Therapies?
In recent years drug makers have developed costly gene therapies priced at more than $1 million. Sometimes these are taken once in a lifetime. Other times they must be repeated periodically. Sometimes they work well, other times not so much.
Tuesday Links
- Is it better to eat breakfast or skip it? The studies are mixed. (WSJ)
- 71% of adults say they are trying to consume more protein.
- Research suggests that at least 60 percent of strokes, 40 percent of dementia cases and 35 percent of late-life depression cases could be prevented or slowed by controlling risk factors.
- Before affirmative action and civil rights: (WSJ)
In 1940 nearly 90% of black families lived in poverty. By 1960 the share had fallen to less than half. Census data show that during this period blacks increased their years of schooling at a faster pace than whites, that the share of blacks attending college doubled, and that the proportion of blacks entering skilled professions more than doubled.
Monday Links
- How Paragon would reform Medicare without cutting benefits.
- Expected lifetime consumption per person: $10M in the US and $25K in many sub-Saharan African countries.
- Beauty appreciation is hardwired into our brains.
- Weight loss drug works against liver disease.
- Noah Smith: “The U.S. government is actually spending more this year than it did last year under Biden.”