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How would universal health care change the US

WEBUniversal healthcare would make it easier for employees to risk unemployment and look for better jobs. The upside of this for the economy is that …

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Infection control saves more lives than

WEBJon Otter tweeted out this graph today, and it just blows me away: “Trust apportioned” is apparently the term in UK English for what we in the US call hospitals. …

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If the US went to a single-payer health system, would it lose its …

WEBPublished on Apple News. Single-payer status has nothing to do with drug development. And drug innovation is not as important as you think. The US spent $325B …

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Which countries put the highest value on human life and health

WEBDespite its ranking at the top of the list, the Marshall Islands spends only $680 per capita on health care. It is not a big spender, but rather is so tiny and so poor that …

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Antimicrobial resistance is not humanity’s greatest threat

WEBIt’s not unusual to see headlines like this in health journalism: Antibiotic Resistance Is Now as Big a Threat as Climate Change. To be fair, the article itself is not …

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A nice pair – Walking to the light

WEBI often despair when I read some of the papers that pass for phage therapy science, so it’s nice to see a couple of very solid contributions published this month. …

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How long does it take your body to recover after taking antibiotics

WEBThe time required to recover from antibiotics is somewhere between zero and infinity. Antibiotics target bacterial proteins and ( for the most part) have no direct …

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About this blog – Walking to the light

WEBShort version: I’ve worked in the biotech and medtech industries for 25 years as a bench scientist, a director of R&D and (briefly) a CEO. I’m appalled by most science journalism, …

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What is the future of the biotechnology industry

WEBDrug companies – both pharma and biotech – are now mining the dust. The cost of discovering and bringing a drug to market increases 9% a year. This rate has …

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Why pharma has a bad reputation – Walking to the light

WEBBoth healthcare and pharmaceuticals are astoundingly unpopular in the US, ranking at the very bottom of all industries. They are not only well below restaurants and …

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The drugs that count are old and cheap. It doesn’t matter if new …

WEBThe prevailing narrative on drug prices, especially in the US, is that they are getting ridiculously expensive and unaffordable. That makes a story that’s easy to write …

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Why is science not advancing faster

WEBThe key question here is “advancing where?”. Where exactly do we want science to go and what do we want it to do when it gets there? Let’s look where R&D …

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Are some countries still caught in a Malthusian Trap

WEBYes. Many consider Malthus’ thesis refuted by the incontestable observation that both population and per capita income are rising. But Malthus was no fool. He …

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A large proportion of the population carries genetic mutations …

WEBA large proportion of the population carries genetic mutations that determine the tendency to develop a disease. If all of those people asked to have their genome …

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My roommate is colonized with MRSA. How

WEBThe good news is that your risk of getting a MRSA infection due to living with a MRSA carrier is not high. It’s not zero, either, but it’s not high. The bad news is that we …

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Does Penicillium from blue cheese colonize the gut and provide

WEBP. chrysogenum, From Penicillium chrysogenum – NBRC 32030 – CHỦNG VI SINH VẬT CHUẨN ATCC. Even if you ate cheese bearing a penicillin-producing …

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Can biotechs survive if the US goes to single-payer

WEBOf course they will. The more interesting question is whether they should. Or at least, whether it would be a loss to society if many did not. The assumption implied in …

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Is curing patients a sustainable business model

WEBNo business model is very sustainable. Only 12% of the 1955 roster of the Fortune 500 are still on the list today. The world changes faster than large successful …

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Best microbiomics paper of 2018: Microbiome analysis steps up …

WEBEvery new discipline goes through an arc of development. First there are the easy discoveries made possible by new technologies or new understandings. Alfred …

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