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The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition
The Cato white paper by Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock is a good reference. When a nation has severe fiscal problems, the first thing they should do is pluck the low hanging fruit. Especially...
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New Drugs Cost Even More Than You Think
The depressing figure above was referenced in McArdle’s “Pharma Spending Less on Finding New Drugs“; Copyright The Boston Consulting Group. NME’s per $B R&D spent (constant dollars), where NME’s...
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Antibiotic-resistance: we need better incentives
(…) And going to the hospital has itself become alarmingly risky. Already, 1.7 million people in the U.S. acquire infections in the hospital each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the...
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Why not reciprocity?? Burned by the FDA
Alex Tabarrock asks why the US FDA has to duplicate drug approvals already completed by reliable nations – e.g.. Germany, Great Britain. Is there any explanation other than aggregation of power to the...
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Meningitis Outbreaks Call for FDA Leadership. Don’t Hold Your Breath
Henry Miller: Vaccination is one of the most important advances in public health in recent centuries, and hundreds of vaccines have all but eradicated many of the infectious disease scourges of the...
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The Budgetary Impact of Ending Drug Prohibition
The Cato white paper by Jeffrey A. Miron and Katherine Waldock is a good reference. When a nation has severe fiscal problems, the first thing they should do is pluck the low hanging fruit. Especially...
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New Drugs Cost Even More Than You Think
The depressing figure above was referenced in McArdle’s “Pharma Spending Less on Finding New Drugs“; Copyright The Boston Consulting Group. NME’s per $B R&D spent (constant dollars), where NME’s...
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Antibiotic-resistance: we need better incentives
(…) And going to the hospital has itself become alarmingly risky. Already, 1.7 million people in the U.S. acquire infections in the hospital each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the...
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Why not reciprocity?? Burned by the FDA
Alex Tabarrock asks why the US FDA has to duplicate drug approvals already completed by reliable nations – e.g.. Germany, Great Britain. Is there any explanation other than aggregation of power to the...
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Meningitis Outbreaks Call for FDA Leadership. Don’t Hold Your Breath
Henry Miller: Vaccination is one of the most important advances in public health in recent centuries, and hundreds of vaccines have all but eradicated many of the infectious disease scourges of the...
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