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PeoplesPharmacy.com in NYTimes: “Not All Drugs Are the Same After All”
We’re thrilled to see our Joe and Terry Graedon, of PeoplesPharmacy.com, in the New York Times (“Not All Drugs Are the Same After All”) telling a truth that the FDA hasn’t figured out: generics don’t always work the same as the brand name drug. Joe and Terry exemplify the participatory medicine movement. He’s a pharmacologist, and she’s a PhD [...]
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US Health Care Reform: A Contemporary Example of
Goodhart’s Law?
Goodhart’s law – named after a former chief economist of the Bank of England – says that whatever social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure you adopt as a financial target ceases to be a relevant target once you have adopted it because it loses the information content it had originally. What is the [...]
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