- Yglesias: Everything you want to know about combatting monkeypox, and then some.
- Monkeypox: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result?
- Paxlovid rebound: when a person (like President Biden) tests positive for the coronavirus again even after initially testing negative following a round of treatment with the antiviral is more common than you think.
- CBO: Drug pricing bill will Lead to higher launch prices for new drugs.
- View this article for more information.
- CBO: Drug pricing bill will lead to 60 fewer drugs over the next three decades.
- Do hospital patients need their own in-house advocate? Covid issues
Category: Health Reform
Woke Medicine is Hazardous to Your Health
Virtually all medical schools admit black and Hispanic applicants with scores on the Medical College Admission Test that would be all but disqualifying if presented by white and Asian applicants, and some schools waive the MCATs entirely for select minority students. Courses on racial justice and advocacy are flooding into medical school curricula; students are learning more about white privilege and less about cell pathology.
Heather Mac Donald in the WSJ Excellent throughout.
Friday Links
- Why are there so few Covid cases in Africa, compared to the rest of the world? Speculative
- Hospitals are still evading the law on transparency.
- Can a pharmacist deny a patient a morning-after pill?
- How the clothes you wear can affect your health. Futuristic
- More reasons not to tax people with the highest incomes. Insightful
- Are Democrats robbing Medicare to pay for Obamacare?
The Biggest Controversy in Pharma World: SSRIs
Scientists at University College London have conducted an umbrella review, evaluating pre-existing research, and concluded that there is little support for the idea that depression is related to abnormally low levels of serotonin.
Sahanika Ratnayake at Slate writes:
It’s true that the authors of the study are controversial figures, vocal to sometimes vituperative critics of the mental health status quo, leaving heated debates in their wake with each new publication. But the authors’ conclusion has been an open secret within mental health circles for at least a decade. The very public dispelling of this “serotonin model” has also removed a key plank in the widely believed but oversimplified myth of mental illness being caused by a “chemical imbalance.”