~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (12)
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Genetic Insurance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Genetic testing identifies disease risk, enabling individuals to dodge environmental triggers, optimize treatments, and improve planning....
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Access to Medical Data Saves Lives - Marginal REVOLUTION
ProPublica: In January, the Biden administration pledged to increase public access to a wide array of...
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Give Innovation a Chance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett writing in the NYTimes discusses her son’s muscular dystrophy and his treatment with the...
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Avoiding Repugnance - Marginal REVOLUTION
Works in Progress has a good review of the state of compensating organ donors, especially doing...
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Surgery is Not FDA Regulated - Marginal REVOLUTION
What would happen if the FDA regulated pharmaceuticals much less than currently? I have pointed to...
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Two Updates on the Value of Vaccines - Marginal REVOLUTION
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract...
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Dose Optimization Trials Enable Fractional Dosing of Scarce Drugs - Marginal REVOLUTION
During the pandemic, when vaccines doses were scarce, I argued for fractional dosing to speed vaccination...
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The economics of semaglutide - Marginal REVOLUTION
…while one would certainly like to have these drugs available to these patients, if the price...
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More on Pharma Pricing - Marginal REVOLUTION
A reader in the industry writes with excellent comments on yesterday’s post on the Chris Rock...
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A Weighty Puzzle-Answers - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday’s puzzle was about Chris Rock’s argument that pharmaceutical companies aren’t interested in cures, they are...
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A Weighty Economics Puzzle - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yesterday a new study was released showing that patients on Eli Lilly’s Zepbound (tirzepatide) lost weight...
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One Reason Why American Health Care is Expensive - Marginal REVOLUTION
tl/dr; Canadian woman is diagnosed with cancer, told she has 2 years to live at most,...