A third of the clinical trial results that federal regulators reviewed to approve drugs made by large pharmaceutical companies in 2012 were never publicly reported, according to a new study that grades companies on their transparency. To assemble the report, a handful of dogged researchers pored over thousands of pages of regulatory documents, counting up the number of […]
When to Ignore a Promise to ‘Never Put Me in a Home’
Our new patient, 88 years old, had been demented for years. She was admitted to the hospital with a deep, malodorous and infected pressure sore stretching from the top of her right shoulder down to the middle of her spine. It took us a only few seconds to choose her antibiotics, but a half hour […]
Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans
You can cherry-pick brief periods along the bottom diagonal to support any argument you like. But between 1970 and 2014, U.S. real GDP per capita grew 117%. The EU15 grew 115%. (Rounding explains the 1% difference shown above.) Statistically, we call that “the same.” Which brought me back to a question that’s been nagging me […]
Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair
Since 1998, people all over the world have been living healthier and living longer. But middle-aged, white non-Hispanics in the United States have been getting sicker and dying in greater numbers. The trend is being driven primarily by people with a high-school degree or less. Between 1978 to 1998, the mortality rate for U.S. whites […]
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