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Malaria--Great Idea, Bad Scheme
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| By Roger Bate |
| Posted: Monday, November 3, 2008 |
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A new global subsidy to give malaria patients the best treatment may divert money from simpler campaigns and could undermine drug quality.
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FDA Preemption and Patient Welfare in Wyeth v. Levine
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| By John E. Calfee |
| Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
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The Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine could lead the FDA to require excessive warnings on medications and impose "contraindications" that would constrain medical practice.
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A Way to Reward Organ Donors
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| By Sally Satel, M.D., Benjamin Hippen, M.D. |
| Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008 |
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The government should devise a safe, regulated system in which would-be donors are offered incentives to donate a kidney.
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Obama's Unhealthy Medical Plan
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| By Scott Gottlieb, M.D. |
| Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 |
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Barack Obama's health care plan is likely to control spending by "managing" it, and in some cases rationing drugs, procedures, and medical devices.
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Next President Must Put Health in Health Care
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| By Newt Gingrich, Sheldon Whitehouse |
| Posted: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 |
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John McCain and Barack Obama are right to focus on health care.
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How to Take American Health Care from Worst to First
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| By Newt Gingrich, Billy Beane, John Kerry |
| Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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Baseball teams now routinely use statistics to put better players on the field for less money. Our health care system needs a similar revolution.
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What China Can Learn from 19th-Century Britain
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| By Roger Bate |
| Posted: Friday, October 24, 2008 |
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Beijing has a major problem with food contamination. The British solved a similar dilemma in the 1800s.
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The Deadly World of Fake Drugs
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| By Roger Bate |
| Posted: Thursday, October 23, 2008 |
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Fake drugs kill thousands of people each day, thanks to counterfeiters in China and India who mix chalk, dust, and dirty water into pills sold around the world.
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The FDA and Drug Preemption
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| By Tomas J. Philipson |
| Posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 |
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In November, the Supreme Court will have the chance to rule in favor of Food and Drug Administration "pre-emption."
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The Ability of Various Measures of Fatness to Predict Application for Disability Insurance
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| By Richard Burkhauser, John H. Cawley, Maximilian Schmeiser |
| Posted: Thursday, October 16, 2008 |
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This paper compares a variety of measures of fatness in terms of their ability to predict application for Social Security Disability Insurance.
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