“Pharmacists Paid for Not Delivering Prescription Drugs?” By Phoebe Ann Moses, courtesy of Contrepoints Will pharmacists soon be paid for not dispensing prescription drugs from the doctor’s prescription? That’s what seems to be under discussion right now between pharmacists’ unions and health insurance. The doctors would be deprived of their authority to […]
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Government Tries to Regulate Drug Prices by Violating the First Amendment
By Ilya Shapiro and Dennis Garcia, courtesy of the Cato Institute Pharmaceutical companies rely on direct-to-consumer advertisements to reach potential customers and extol the benefits of their medications. This type of “commercial speech” enjoys protection under the First Amendment, though not to the same degree as other forms of expression. Merck v. HHS tests the limits […]
Drones have already saved tens of thousands of lives
“Beyond Visual Line of Sight: The Future of Drones in Healthcare” By Davis Warnell, courtesy of Mercatus Center On October 1st, UPS Flight Forward, Inc.—a subsidiary of United Parcel Service (UPS)—announced that it had received the first full “Part 135 Standard” certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […]
Analyzing health records, insurance claims speeds new treatments
Historically the trove of medical and para-medical information known as “real-world evidence,” including health records but also insurance claims and patient registries, has mostly been used as a source for additional evaluation of the efficacy of existing drugs after they have already been approved. But […]
Diabetes Breakthrough Signals Need For New Treatment Approach
A major breakthrough in the clinical approach to type 2 diabetes holds out hope that newly diagnosed individuals can avoid many of the disease’s worst effects for far longer, according to Sir Michael Hirst and Dr. Päivi Maria Paldánius writing in CapX. Based on […]
Basic eye care could save sight of over 1 billion people
Over one billion people are at risk of losing their sight, the vast majority in low- and middle-income countries, according to a new report from the WHO, which urges that many of these people could be saved from vision loss with basic eye care. […]
TES Weekly Update: Science Delivers, Politics Withers
Diabetes breakthrough shows there’s hope! Brexit mess shows… something else Our world remains a study in contrasts, and that’s about the most that can be said for it. On the one hand, a breakthrough in the clinical understanding of diabetes promises to quietly revolutionize the way we treat one of the world’s deadliest […]
Hey Congress, drug price controls are still a bad idea
Bad ideas have a way of sticking around , but fortunately there’s a home for them called Congress. The recently proposed legislation on drug prices is firmly in this category, relying on what are in effect government-imposed price controls, backed by the threat of […]
Electronic Health Records: A Good Idea, Poorly Executed
By Davis Warnell and Sloane Shearman, courtesy of the Mercatus Center The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (popularly known as the “stimulus”) required all healthcare providers to adopt the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in their daily practice in order to sustain their Medicaid and […]
How to improve access to medicines — and how NOT to
With the UN General Assembly convening in New York to discuss all manner of policy issues, one high-profile area of debate is the appropriate role of governments and regulators in ensuring that as many people as possible have access to the medicines they need. […]