Medical roundup

  • FDA and other agencies launch crackdown on more than 100 dietary supplement companies [Orange County Register editorial, thanks for quoting]
  • 14 years ago Sally Satel warned that political correctness was getting into medical schools in a big way. How prescient was that? [Yale Daily News via Dave Huber/The College Fix on Yale med-school dean’s capitulation to demands for “anti-oppressive” curriculum reform, video of Satel on C-SPAN “Book Notes” with Brian Lamb discussing “P.C., M.D.“]
  • Unexpectedly! “Insurer cutbacks squeeze patients out of high-end care” [Houston Chronicle]
  • “Deflate Drug Prices by Reforming the FDA” [Richard Morrison, CEI, thanks for quote]
  • Penny wise: Obama plan would penalize doctors who recommend routine prostate cancer tests for older men [WSJ, Betsy McCaughey/New York Post]
  • “Clearly, it would take an extraordinarily overbearing [British] state to move [sugar] consumption anywhere close to this target.” [Christopher Snowdon]
  • Widely asserted ethical prohibition on paying organ donors comes at more than a monetary price [Alex Tabarrok](link fixed)

2 Comments

  • Tabarrok link didn’t work for me. Thanks!

  • Sorry, fixed now.