Pharmaceutical roundup
“A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back 14 years – even as the American Civil Liberties Union and some...
View ArticleWe’ll pay in lives for the testing debacle
“Between early February and mid-March, the U.S. lost six crucial weeks because regulators stuck to rigid regulations instead of adapting as new information came in. While these rules might have made...
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Get the truckers what they need: reversing itself, Pennsylania agrees to reopen all 17 closed turnpike service plazas, heavily relied on by truck workforce [Ashley, CDL Life] No, Senator, Medicare for...
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Telemedicine has become a crucial tool during the crisis. 2017 paper discusses the regulatory barriers that had constrained it [Shirley Svorny, Cato Policy Analysis; earlier here, here, and here]...
View ArticleDon’t deprecate off-label drug prescribing
Is it questionable and suspicious for doctors to administer a medication that has not been proved effective for the use in question? Nope. It’s perfectly normal. I explain “off-label prescribing” in a...
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“Feds Say It’ll Take Up To 90 Days to Approve New Mask-Making Facilities” [Christian Britschgi, Reason] “America Could Import Countless More Face Masks if Federal Regulators Would Get Out of the Way”...
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“However peaceable we might be in our intentions, our assembling is a physical threat. Our judgments about liberty, I think, need to reflect that.” [Eugene Volokh on freedom of assembly during an...
View ArticleFDA authorizes an at-home COVID-19 test — but some states still ban it
A new home test for COVID-19 launches in 46 states but not in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, or Rhode Island, because lawmakers in those states have banned this sort of direct home diagnostic test. As...
View ArticleCan’t lay your hands on a pulse oximeter? 1976 law, FDA regulation are among...
Because low blood oxygen may be an early symptom of serious COVID-19 disease, interest has quickly amounted among consumers and medical professionals in enabling wider access to the decades-old...
View Article“F.D.A. Halts Coronavirus Testing Program Backed by Bill Gates”
“An innovative coronavirus testing program in the Seattle area — promoted by the billionaire Bill Gates and local public health officials as a way of conducting wider surveillance on the invisible...
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