Tuesday, August 26, 2014

The Anechoic RUC: Some Small Efforts at Reform

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I have previously written about the Resource-Based Relative Value Scale Update Committee, or RUC: http://brodyhooked.blogspot.com/2011/05/m...
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Saturday, August 23, 2014

Not-So-Personalized Medicine

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Jack E. James, who appears to hail from either Reykjavik University in Iceland or the National University of Ireland in Galway, or both, kin...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Research on Pharmaceuticals: From Confidence to Commercialism

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The main thrust of this commentary comes from Dr. Roy Poses and: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2014/08/desperate-vulnerable-research-subjec...
Monday, August 11, 2014

From Christopher Gregory: What's Wrong with Profits in Medicine?

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Now I'm turning the blog over to Dr. Christopher M. Gregory, a fellow Texan who runs the DocOnomics blog ( http://www.doconomics.com/blo...

From Health Care Renewal: The Free Market and Drugs

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Let's see what's going on over at the Health Care Renewal blog, courtesy Dr. Roy Poses. Dr. Poses has been noting that there are s...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

More on Guinea Pigging--The Quality of Pharmaceutical Research

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Two longish articles by our old friend Dr. Carl Elliott and by Peter Aldhous: https://medium.com/matter/did-big-pharma-test-your-meds-on-ho...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

Rating New Hepattits Drugs: What Standard?

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There seem to be two problems with the newest drugs for hepatitis C,  simeprevir (Olysio) and sofosbuvir (Sovaldi). The problem most discuss...